# Cogent

> Cogent is a San Francisco enterprise cybersecurity company building AI agents that carry vulnerabilities from discovery to verified closure. Its software unifies findings from existing tools, adds asset and business context, identifies owners, proposes and routes fixes, and validates that remediation worked. Founded in 2024, Cogent emerged from stealth in July 2025 and has raised $53 million across an $11 million seed round and a $42 million Series A.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Vineet Edupuganti (Co-founder and CEO), Geng Sng (Co-founder and CTO), Thanos Baskous (Co-founder and VP Engineering)
- **Products:** Cogent Platform, AI Reasoning Engine, Action Queue, Zero Day Response, Autonomous Remediation
- **Notable:** Raised $53 million in disclosed funding by February 2026., Reached dozens of Fortune 1000 companies within months of its public launch, according to the company., Fortune 500 users reduced critical-vulnerability exposure windows by an average of 97%, according to Cogent.

## Products & services

- **Cogent Platform** — An enterprise vulnerability-management platform that unifies and deduplicates findings, enriches them with business context, prioritizes risk, coordinates remediation, and validates closure.
- **AI Reasoning Engine** — Specialized agents and a context layer that reason across assets, vulnerabilities, ownership, compensating controls, and live telemetry.
- **Action Queue** — A remediation operations surface for ownership resolution, ticket routing, instructions, SLA tracking, and scan-verified closure.
- **Zero Day Response** — Matches new CVEs, pre-CVE disclosures, and supply-chain signals against customer software inventories without waiting for scanner signatures.
- **Autonomous Remediation** — Creates contextual fix plans, assesses likely operational impact, executes through existing tools under customer policies, and verifies results.
- **Autonomous Vulnerability Response** — Runs detection, investigation, remediation, and validation as one continuous workflow at the autonomy level the customer permits.
- **Cogent Community** — A free AI vulnerability-intelligence feed combining public databases, exploit sources, proof-of-concept code, and real-time signals.
- **Cogent Research** — An applied research lab studying AI-driven security, formal verification, agent safety, and vulnerability detection gaps.

## Achievements

- Raised $53 million in disclosed funding by February 2026.
- Reached dozens of Fortune 1000 companies within months of its public launch, according to the company.
- Fortune 500 users reduced critical-vulnerability exposure windows by an average of 97%, according to Cogent.
- CSC Generation completed asset discovery and vulnerability assessment for Sur La Table within three hours of onboarding.
- University of the Pacific reported a fivefold increase in vulnerability-management team output.
- Valvoline Instant Oil Change reported roughly an 80% reduction in response time for zero-day, P1, and P2 incidents.
- Cogent Research analyzed 69,159 CVEs and reported that 62% of critical vulnerabilities with known exploits had an exploit circulating before major scanners provided detection coverage.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Raised a $42 million Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to $53 million.
- **2026-03** — Announced a partnership with Anthropic to use Claude as a core reasoning layer for governed autonomous remediation.
- **2026-05** — Launched Zero Day Response, Autonomous Remediation, and a redesigned Action Queue.
- **2026-07** — Introduced Autonomous Vulnerability Response, linking detection through independently validated closure.
- **2026-08** — Published agent-safety research reporting that a fixed policy enforced at the tool-call layer reduced successful model cheating by roughly 79% in its experiment.
- **2026-09** — Expanded product and research publishing, including security assessments and research on external enforcement for AI-agent safety.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cogent.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cogent_security

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Last updated: 2026-09-26