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Cogent Security builds an agentic AI platform for vulnerability management, deploying autonomous AI agents that identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across enterprise environments. Its agents handle the full vulnerability management lifecycle, including triage, prioritization, and remediation execution.
Cogent Security builds an agentic AI platform for vulnerability management, deploying autonomous AI agents that identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across enterprise environments. Its agents handle the full vulnerability management lifecycle, including triage, prioritization, and remediation execution.
Cogent Security was founded in 2024 in San Francisco by Vineet Edupuganti (CEO), Geng Sng (CTO), and Thanos Baskous (VP Engineering). The founders met as engineers and security practitioners at companies including Abnormal AI, Coinbase, and Blackstone, where they spent years on vulnerability remediation, and built Cogent inside Greylock's Edge incubator to apply AI agents to that workload.
BankInfoSecurity covered the Series A funding round.
Cogent published a company blog post detailing its $42M Series A funding.
Bain Capital Ventures led a $42M Series A in Cogent Security with Greylock and Definition participating, bringing total funding to $53M.
The founders published a blog post explaining the technical approach and motivation behind building Cogent Security.
Greylock published a portfolio post introducing Cogent Security and its founding team.
Cogent Security came out of stealth with an $11M Series Seed led by Greylock Partners with Lockstep participating.
MSSP Alert covered Cogent's launch and its agentic approach to vulnerability management.
$53M raised total