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AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B valuation
Cognition, the AI coding startup behind the autonomous software engineer Devin, has raised over $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC. The company reports $492 million in annualized revenue run-rate with major enterprise customers including Mercedes-Benz, NASA, and Goldman Sachs, and 50% month-over-month growth in Devin usage over the past six months.
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Summary
Cognition, the AI coding startup behind the autonomous software engineer Devin, has raised over $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC. The company reports $492 million in annualized revenue run-rate with major enterprise customers including Mercedes-Benz, NASA, and Goldman Sachs, and 50% month-over-month growth in Devin usage over the past six months.
Tags
ai-coding · cognition · devin · fundraising · venture-capital · startups · valuation
Key entities
Cognition (organization, 1) · Devin (technology, 1) · Lux Capital (organization, 0.95) · General Catalyst (organization, 0.95) · 8VC (organization, 0.9) · Founders Fund (organization, 0.85) · Ribbit Capital (organization, 0.85) · Julie Bort (person, 0.95) · Elad Gil (person, 0.9) · Mercedes-Benz (organization, 0.9) · NASA (organization, 0.9) · Goldman Sachs (organization, 0.9) · Santander (organization, 0.85) · Claude Code (technology, 0.85) · OpenAI Codex (technology, 0.85) · Anthropic (organization, 0.85) · OpenAI (organization, 0.85) · Google (organization, 0.85) · Windsurf (organization, 0.85)
Classification
notes · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 5 Jun 2026