# Cognition

> Cognition is the San Francisco AI lab behind Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, and the post-acquisition home of the Windsurf IDE. Founded in 2023 by three IOI gold-medalists, the company builds agents that plan, write, test and ship production code, and is reshaping how engineering teams scale.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Scott Wu (Co-Founder & CEO), Steven Hao (Co-Founder & CTO), Walden Yan (Co-Founder & CPO)
- **Team size:** ~200
- **Products:** Devin, Windsurf, Devin API & Enterprise
- **Notable:** Built the first publicly demoed autonomous AI software engineer (March 2024)., Hit $73M ARR within nine months of GA., Acquired Windsurf in July 2025, absorbing its IDE, IP and 350+ enterprise customers.

## Products & services

- **Devin** — Autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, tests and debugs inside a sandboxed VM with shell, editor and browser. Used as a junior teammate that takes Jira-style tickets and returns pull requests.
- **Windsurf** — Agentic IDE acquired in July 2025. Brings Devin's planning and reasoning into a tab-completion and multi-step editing surface used by hundreds of thousands of developers.
- **Devin API & Enterprise** — API and VPC deployments for enterprise teams - Slack, GitHub and Linear integrations, fleets of parallel agents, custom playbooks.

## Achievements

- Built the first publicly demoed autonomous AI software engineer (March 2024).
- Hit $73M ARR within nine months of GA.
- Acquired Windsurf in July 2025, absorbing its IDE, IP and 350+ enterprise customers.
- Reached $10.2B valuation in September 2025.
- Reportedly in talks for a $25B round in April 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Reportedly in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $25B valuation.
- **2025-09** — Closed $400M Series at $10.2B valuation, led by Founders Fund.
- **2025-07** — Acquired Windsurf - IDE, team and IP - days after Google licensed Windsurf's leadership.
- **2025-05** — Launched Devin 2.0 with parallel sub-agents and self-testing via computer use.

## Links

- Website: https://cognition.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cognition_labs
- GitHub: https://github.com/cognition-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cognition-ai

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