# Scaled Cognition

> Scaled Cognition is a Mountain View AI company building what it calls the first Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT), a model designed and trained specifically for taking reliable, policy-adherent actions rather than just predicting language. Founded by the team behind Semantic Machines (acquired by Microsoft in 2018), it targets enterprise customer-experience workflows where mistakes and hallucinations are unacceptable - financial services, healthcare, telecom, and insurance. In June 2026 the company raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla Ventures to expand its research team and accelerate enterprise deployments.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founders:** Dan Roth (Co-Founder & CEO), Dan Klein (Co-Founder & CTO), Damon Pender (Co-Founder & CFO)
- **Team size:** ~40 employees
- **Products:** APT-1 (Agentic Pretrained Transformer), Agent Builder Platform, Deployment options
- **Notable:** Raised $100M Series A led by Khosla Ventures at a reported ~$750M valuation (June 2026), Built APT-1, described as the first Agentic Pretrained Transformer, Topped the tau-bench and ComplexFuncBench agentic benchmarks, outperforming standard foundation models

## Products & services

- **APT-1 (Agentic Pretrained Transformer)** — A frontier model built exclusively for customer experience and agentic tasks, optimized around action prediction rather than token prediction. Delivers conversational quality comparable to leading LLMs while eliminating hallucinations and guaranteeing policy adherence. Tops tau-bench and ComplexFuncBench, supports text and voice across multiple languages.
- **Agent Builder Platform** — A full-stack platform for building, testing, and deploying production-ready AI agents, including synthetic data generation, action modeling, training innovations, and agentic evaluation tools - no customer-specific fine-tuning required.
- **Deployment options** — APT-1 is available on-premises, in a virtual private cloud (VPC), or as a hosted service through Scaled Cognition, supporting secure, compliant enterprise deployment.

## Achievements

- Raised $100M Series A led by Khosla Ventures at a reported ~$750M valuation (June 2026)
- Built APT-1, described as the first Agentic Pretrained Transformer
- Topped the tau-bench and ComplexFuncBench agentic benchmarks, outperforming standard foundation models
- Deployed in production with Fortune 500 enterprises across regulated industries
- Founding team previously built and sold Semantic Machines to Microsoft (2018)

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Raised $100M Series A led by Khosla Ventures with strategic participation from Genesys; funds earmarked to expand the research team and accelerate enterprise deployments.
- **2026-06** — Announced APT-1, the Agentic Pretrained Transformer, topping tau-bench and ComplexFuncBench.

## Links

- Website: https://scaledcognition.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/scaledcognition

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