Cognition AI Inc.
startupCognition AI Inc. is a San Francisco AI research company founded in 2023. Builds Devin autonomous AI engineer. $2B valuation Series B 2024. Acquired Windsurf IDE in 2025.
About Cognition AI Inc.
Cognition AI Inc. is an applied AI research company founded in late 2023 by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company raised a $21 million Series A in 2024 led by Founders Fund and a $175 million Series B in 2024 led by Founders Fund at a $2 billion valuation. Cognition develops Devin, marketed as an autonomous AI software engineer that can plan, write, debug, and deploy code independently. In 2025 the company also acquired the Windsurf IDE business from Codeium following a partial acqui-hire of Codeium engineering staff by Google.