# COGNNA

> COGNNA is a Riyadh-founded cybersecurity company that combines its Nexus agentic AI security-operations platform with a 24/7 managed detection and response service. It helps enterprises and lean security teams discover assets, triage alerts, hunt threats, investigate incidents and coordinate response while mapping evidence to Saudi and global compliance frameworks.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Founders:** Ibrahim Alshamrani (Co-founder and CEO), Ziyad Alshehri (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** 51-200 employees on LinkedIn; supplied company data lists 62 employees.
- **Products:** COGNNA Nexus, Smart MDR, Managed SOC, Managed Threat Hunting, Compromise Assessment
- **Notable:** Participated in the inaugural Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority Cybersecurity Accelerator Program in 2022., Raised a $2.25 million seed round in 2023 led by Impact46., Released Nexus 2.2.0 in 2024 with expanded IOC, Sigma, YARA and MITRE ATT&CK support plus user discovery and a sensor marketplace.

## Products & services

- **COGNNA Nexus** — A unified agentic AI SOC platform spanning asset discovery, threat detection, alert triage, investigation, threat hunting, case management and automated response.
- **Smart MDR** — A 24/7 managed detection and response service combining Nexus automation with COGNNA's human Guardian analysts.
- **Managed SOC** — An outsourced security-operations service with monitoring, detection, hunting, incident support and compliance-oriented reporting.
- **Managed Threat Hunting** — Proactive searches using threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, Sigma and YARA logic, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
- **Compromise Assessment** — A point-in-time assessment designed to identify evidence of current or historical compromise across an environment.
- **Compliance Assessment** — Security evidence and advisory support mapped to frameworks including NCA, SAMA, CMA, PCI DSS, HIPAA and SOC 2.

## Achievements

- Participated in the inaugural Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority Cybersecurity Accelerator Program in 2022.
- Raised a $2.25 million seed round in 2023 led by Impact46.
- Released Nexus 2.2.0 in 2024 with expanded IOC, Sigma, YARA and MITRE ATT&CK support plus user discovery and a sensor marketplace.
- Raised a $9.2 million Series A in 2025 to expand product development, hiring and geographic reach.
- COGNNA reports 120,000-plus threats neutralized, roughly two-minute mean time to detect and 96 percent AI triage accuracy; these are company-reported metrics.
- An anonymized hospital case study reports a 46 percent reduction in false positives, 64 percent lower response time and 29 percent lower security-operations cost after deployment.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — COGNNA announced CEO Ibrahim Alshamrani as a keynote speaker on sovereign AI security and human-AI collaboration at the Middle East Agentic AI Forum.
- **2026-02** — Published a 2026 guide to threat-hunting tools and positioned the integrated agentic SOC as the next stage of proactive defense.
- **2025-12** — Closed a $9.2 million Series A led by Impact46 and co-led by BNVT Capital, with Vision Ventures and Tali Ventures participating.
- **2025-09** — Signed a strategic cybersecurity agreement with Saudi HR and spend platform Jisr.
- **2025-07** — Published case studies for Wadaie and an anonymized Riyadh hospital describing compliance and operational gains.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cognna.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognna
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cognna
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@COGNNA

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Last updated: 2026-08-17