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Cognition

Devin autonomous AI software engineer and Windsurf/Devin Desktop IDE

Pace
3:30/kmSprint5.5
Distance
Distance Half.
Open ops roles
4
Last week
#7
Move
Held
Peak
#7
Weeks in the 100
2
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#1#9#17#7Oct 18#7Oct 25
Pace score
02465.5Oct 185.5Oct 25

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Sprint 3:30/kmFactoryReplitOpenAICognitionAnthropic
Race 4:05/km
Tempo 4:40/km
Steady 5:20/km
Warm-up 6:00/km
Cool-down 6:30/km
Cognition runs in the Sprint lane, alongside 4 rivals. Rivals on Well Run sit in their own pace lanes; further right = more momentum. Tap one to open its page.Also competes with: Cursor (Anysphere)
Revenue estimate
~$1B run-rate revenuecompany-stated · as of Sep 2026 cognition.com ↗
Headcount
~200 (Wikipedia, 2026); board est. ~400as of 2026 en.wikipedia.org ↗
Founded
2023
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Leadership

The problem

Engineering teams cannot ship as much software as the business needs

What they do

Devin autonomous AI software engineer and Windsurf/Devin Desktop IDE

Traction Run-rate revenue $492M (May 2026) to ~$1B (Sep 2026)

Hiring trend

Open roles
105
Ops roles
4
Headcount
~400

~370 staff (est.); 103 open roles

Hiring in

  • San Francisco
  • New York
  • London
  • Remote (Singapore)

Funding

Last round
$2B+
Stage
Series E
Date
Sep 2026

Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel

Distance

Half · edge: hard to leave

~$1B run rate makes it a top-tier coding agent, behind Cursor's $4B and Claude Code.

Sources: Cognition blog: $1B run rate (Sep 2026) ↗ · Value Add VC: Cognition $48B valuation analysis (Sep 2026) ↗ · Forbes: Cursor hits $4B annualized revenue (Jun 2026) ↗

Last checked Oct 25, 2026

News timeline

  1. Sep 2026Run-rate revenue reaches ~$1B weeks after Series E cognition.com ↗
  2. Sep 2026Raises $2B+ Series E at $48B led by a16z and Accel techcrunch.com ↗
  3. Jun 2026Rebrands Windsurf IDE as Devin Desktop en.wikipedia.org ↗
  4. May 2026Raises $1B at $26B valuation bloomberg.com ↗
  5. Jul 2025Signs deal to acquire Windsurf after Google's acquihire of its CEO en.wikipedia.org ↗

Funding history

  1. Sep 2026Series E$2B+at $48BLed by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel cognition.com ↗
  2. May 2026Series D$1Bat $26Bmoney.usnews.com ↗
  3. Sep 2025Growth roundat ~$10Ben.wikipedia.org ↗
  4. Mar 2025Series Cat $4BLed by 8VC en.wikipedia.org ↗
  5. Apr 2024Series B$175Mat $2BLed by Founders Fund en.wikipedia.org ↗
  6. Jan 2024Early round$21Mat $350MLed by Founders Fund en.wikipedia.org ↗

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

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