Company

Cognition

Palo Alto, OS

Disclosed deals

Every published round Cognition took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
No published deals recorded yet.

Portfolio

Companies Cognition has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
No portfolio companies recorded yet.

Funds

Fund closes reported for Cognition, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Cognition yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Cognition has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Cognition did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Cognition is recorded as having been acquired.

What Cognition bought

Companies Cognition acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Windsurf	Acquisition	Jul 2025	~$250m	frontiernews.ai, thevibelog.dev, nxcode.io, Crunchbase News, siliconrepublic.com, cxodigitalpulse.com, ainvest.com, devin.ai

Name	Role	Sources
Scott Wu	CEO	siliconrepublic.com, cxodigitalpulse.com, devin.ai

Coverage

Stories naming Cognition. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

11 deals

In The Space Of Months, AI Funding Boom Adds More Than $500B In Value To Unicorn Board And Reshuffles Top 20

Crunchbase's unicorn tracker analysis finds AI-driven valuations added over half a trillion dollars in months, reshuffling the top twenty and minting eleven new decacorns in H2 2025, including Figure, Kraken, Mistral and Sierra.

Also Crunchbase News·Crunchbase News

Series B $175m

Cognition AI's Windsurf Acquisition: A Masterstroke in the AI Talent and IP War

Analysis argues Cognition AI's July 2025 buyout of Windsurf, after Google's reverse-acquihire of its leaders, secures IP, talent and revenue, boosting Cognition's Devin product, valuation and investor backing.

ainvest.com 14 Jul 2025 Cognition 8VC Dell Founders Fund Google DeepMind Khosla Ventures Microsoft OpenAI Windsurf Zillow

Exit / M&A

The Next Chapter | Devin

Windsurf's chief executive announces the developer-tools firm is joining Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI agent, in an acquisition; he also cites Cognition's funding history and valuation.

devin.ai 14 Jul 2025 Cognition Founders Fund Windsurf Jeff Wang Scott Wu

Also ainvest.com·cxodigitalpulse.com·siliconrepublic.com·nxcode.io·thevibelog.dev·frontiernews.ai·Crunchbase News

15 deals

AI, Web3 And E-Commerce Led For New Unicorns In April 2024

Eleven companies reached billion-dollar valuations in April 2024, led by Xaira Therapeutics' $1 billion Series A; Rubrik and Ibotta listed on the NYSE, and several existing unicorns raised at higher valuations.

Also Crunchbase News

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