Cognition
Makes Devin, an AI software engineer, and owns the Windsurf coding editor it bought in 2025.
- Revenue
- About $492M ARR in 2026 (Tech Insider). A KuCoin headline says $900M ARR. Sources conflict
- Value
- $26B after a round of over $1B (May 2026). One source reports a $48B round in Sep 2026, not confirmed elsewhere
- Growth
- ARR about $73M in Jun 2025 (Tech Insider)
- Based in
- San Francisco, US
- Listed
- Private
Cognition said its Windsurf deal more than doubled its combined ARR, with under 5% customer overlap.
Two conflicting ARR figures and one unconfirmed valuation mean its size is not settled.
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Open profileSources: tech-insider.org, kucoin.com, pulse2.com
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