Cognition Raises $1 Billion at $26 Billion Valuation
The AI coding startup said revenue run rate has reached $492 million as enterprises adopt Devin and Windsurf for software development.
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AI coding startup Cognition has raised more than $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, marking a sharp jump in investor appetite for software development tools powered by autonomous AI agents.
The round was led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC, with participation from existing investors including Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Alpha Wave, Definition Capital, Positive Sum, Avenir, Vitruvian, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, 137 Ventures, Soma Capital and Omri Casspi.
New investors included Ribbit Capital, Atreides and Layer Global, the company said Wednesday.
Cognition is best known for Devin, an AI software engineering agent designed to handle coding tasks. The company also owns Windsurf, an AI coding platform it acquired last year after Google hired several of Windsurf’s senior leaders in a separate transaction.
Reuters reported at the time that Cognition bought Windsurf’s intellectual property, product line and team.
The latest valuation is more than double Cognition’s $10.2 billion post-money valuation from a funding round announced in September.
TechCrunch said the new round values the company at $25 billion before the investment and $26 billion after it.
Cognition said its enterprise usage has grown more than tenfold since the start of the year and that revenue run rate has reached $492 million.
Its customers include Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, Elevance, Dell, Santander, the US Army and the US Navy.
The company is positioning itself as an independent AI agent lab rather than a tool tied to a single foundation model provider. It said Devin works across multiple AI models and evaluates performance across more than 100 software engineering task categories.
The funding comes as competition intensifies in AI coding tools, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft all pushing software development products.
Independent startups such as Cognition are trying to prove that enterprise customers will still pay for specialized tools even as large AI model providers move deeper into coding.
Cognition said the new funding will support further development of Devin and Windsurf as companies look to automate more parts of the software development cycle.
