AI software engineering company behind the Devin coding agent, acquirer of Windsurf.
Founders
Scott Wu(United States · ♂)— A three-time IOI gold medalist and Harvard grad, son of Shanghai-immigrant engineers, he co-founded AI networking startup Lunchclub before assembling a team of elite competitive programmers to build the autonomous coding agent Devin.
Steven Hao(United States · ♂)— An IOI 2014 gold medalist who studied math and CS at MIT and was an early Scale AI engineer, he brought deep ML-systems experience as Cognition's CTO.
Walden Yan(United States · ♂)— A competitive-programming peer of the founders who joined as Chief Product Officer to shape Devin's product.
Funding history
Date
Round
Amount
Aug 2025
Series C
Cognition raised around $500 million in a Series C led by Founders Fund at a $9.8 billion valuation, after the acquisition of Windsurf.
$500M
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