Cogent Security

Cogent Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2024 by CEO Vineet Edupuganti, CTO Geng Sng, and VP of Engineering Thanos Baskous. The company specializes in AI-driven vulnerability management, providing an "AI Taskforce" that acts as a force multiplier for in-house security teams. The founding team brings experience from prominent tech and security companies; Edupuganti and Sng were pivotal in scaling Abnormal Security, while Baskous led infrastructure at Coinbase and was Chief Architect at Blackstone. The team also includes AI researchers from Google DeepMind.

The company launched in July 2025 with an $11 million seed round led by Greylock Partners. By February 2026, Cogent had raised a $42 million Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its total funding to $53 million. This capital is intended to accelerate product development, expand enterprise deployments, and enhance its AI platforms.

Cogent's core product is an agentic AI platform designed to automate the entire vulnerability management lifecycle, from discovery to remediation. The AI agents autonomously execute tasks such as correlating data, contextualizing assets and vulnerabilities, prioritizing risks based on environmental factors, and generating remediation plans. The platform integrates with existing vulnerability management, ticketing, and communication tools to ingest findings and track fixes through to completion. This automation is designed to address the operational gap between vulnerability detection and resolution, which is often a manual and time-consuming process for enterprises. The system provides traceable and auditable actions, allowing organizations to maintain governance and control.

The company operates on a subscription-based business model, offering tiered pricing for its software. Its target clients include large enterprises, Fortune 500 companies, public financial institutions, and universities, primarily in North America and Europe. Notable customers include Alteryx Inc., and CSC Generation Holdings Inc. Cogent reports that its platform can reduce exposure windows for critical risks by an average of 97% and cut vulnerability management efforts by 50%.

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