Today’s Top Talent Pool

Cognition, the company behind the autonomous software engineer Devin, announced $2B at a $48B valuation today, a Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel with Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir. That is nearly double the $26B it set four months ago and takes total funding past $4.5B. Run-rate revenue has gone from $492M in May to almost $900M now, against roughly $1M two years ago.

  1. Moritz Stephan in Stanford (CEO @ Hone)

    1. Role: Software Engineer @ Cognition (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & Advisor @ Fizz (YC S21, $41M from Kleiner Perkins, NEA), Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Stanford AI Laboratory

    3. Description: "Hone builds AI that owns outcomes, not tasks.”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Martin McKeaveney in Lisbon (Founder @ Soria Labs)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Cognition (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CTO & Co-Founder @ Budibase (acquired), CTO & Co-Founder @ Autonurture AI, Director @ Shogun Digital

    3. Description: "Helping Enterprises adopt AI"

  3. Daniel Chiu in San Francisco (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product & Engineering @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Product & Engineering @ Watershed, Product & Engineering @ Kalshi, Trading Intern @ Jane Street, Software Engineer @ Figma, Harvard CS

    3. Description: Left the operating role 12/25, now listed as an advisor to Cognition

  4. Steven Cao in San Francisco (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Researcher @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Research Intern @ Redwood Research

    3. Description: Left 6/26, Harvard class of ‘28

  5. Olsen B. in SF Bay Area (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Applied AI Consultant @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Member of Technical Staff @ xAI, Software Engineer II, ML Platform @ Affirm

    3. Description: Left xAI 8/26

  6. Alex Peng in SF Bay Area (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Deployed Engineer @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Member of Technical Staff @ xAI, Stanford MS & BS

    3. Description: Left xAI 6/26

  7. Bryan Chiang in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Research @ Google DeepMind, TA @ Stanford School of Engineering, Crypto @ Andreessen Horowitz, Research @ Stanford School of Engineering

    3. Description: Left Cognition 2024

  8. Kushaal Gajavelly in SF Bay Area (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Software Engineer @ Cognition (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Software Engineer @ Windsurf, Software Development Engineer @ Tesla

    3. Description: Left Cognition 8/26

  9. Pietro Max Marsella in Stanford (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Member of Technical Staff @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Compiler Researcher @ Stanford, System Software Engineer @ D-Orbit

    3. Description: Stanford class of ‘27

  10. Joe Li in Cupertino (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: ML Research Intern @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Research @ Nous Research, Researcher @ Princeton Power Electronics Lab, USA IOI Training Camp

    3. Description: Stanford class of ‘28

  11. Connor Fogarty in United States (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Research @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Software Engineer @ Flint, Software Engineer @ bolt.new, Stanford CS

    3. Description: Left Cognition on 4/26

  12. Shreyasi Mandal in Manchester (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Deployed Engineer @ Cognition (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: MSc @University of Manchester

    3. Description: “Building cool stuff”

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