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Position 185

Cogent Security

AI agents that investigate, prioritize and fix security vulnerabilities

Pace
4:05/kmRace4.5
Distance
Distance Unproven.
Open ops roles
4
Last week
#156
Move
▼ 29
Peak
#156
Weeks in the 100
0
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#146#167#188#156Oct 18#178Oct 25
Pace score
02464.5Oct 184.5Oct 25

One point per Sunday re-rank, tracking since Oct 18. The lines fill in week by week.

Cogent Security runs in the Race lane (4:05/km): 96 of 111. Further right = more momentum. No competitors on the board yet, so it runs alone.

Also competes with: Vulcan Cyber (Tenable), Nucleus Security, Zafran, Seemplicity

Total raised
$53M (company-stated)see rounds ↓
Headcount
~107 (Tracxn)as of 2026 platform.tracxn.com ↗
Founded
2024
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Leadership

The problem

Security teams find vulnerabilities fast but take weeks to get them fixed

What they do

AI agents that investigate, prioritize and fix security vulnerabilities

Traction Dozens of Fortune 1000 customers within 6 months of launch

Hiring trend

Open roles
45
Ops roles
4
Headcount
~60-100

37 staff in Feb to ~60-100 by Q3 2026 (BankInfoSecurity, Harmonic, Tracxn); 45 open roles

Hiring in

  • New York
  • San Francisco
  • Remote (US)

Funding

Last round
$42M
Stage
Series A
Date
Feb 2026

Led by Bain Capital Ventures

Distance

Unproven · edge: hard to leave

Dozens of Fortune 1000 customers in six months, but too early to judge in a crowded security market.

Sources: Cogent: $42M Series A (Feb 2026) ↗

Last checked Oct 25, 2026

News timeline

  1. Oct 2026Launches Attack Path Analysis; report on AI-agent-only attack paths prnewswire.com ↗
  2. Jul 2026Unveils VR-1, a frontier model trained for cybersecurity tasks prnewswire.com ↗
  3. Jul 2026Named to Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list ($320M valuation) forbes.com ↗
  4. May 2026Launches Zero Day Response and Autonomous Remediation prnewswire.com ↗
  5. Feb 2026Raises $42M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures, six months after launch fortune.com ↗

Funding historyTotal raised $53M (company-stated)

  1. Feb 2026Series A$42Mat $320M (Forbes, Jul 2026)Led by Bain Capital Ventures prnewswire.com ↗
  2. Jul 2025Seed$11MLed by Greylock Partners cogent.com ↗

Profile facts checked Oct 19, 2026. Every fact links to its public source.

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