Cognition raises – Cognition, the company behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, announced it has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation—an enormous step up from its $400 million round just eight months earlier.
For Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, the validation isn’t coming from demos or headlines—it’s coming from fresh capital moving at a speed that feels hard to ignore.
Cognition, the company behind Devin, announced on Wednesday that it has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation.
The size of the move lands against a sharp recent timeline. Cognition’s last funding exit was a $400 million round that closed in September, when the company was valued at $10.2 billion post-money—just eight months earlier.
The latest round was led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst. Existing investors also participated, including Founders Fund and 8VC. New investors joined as well, including Ribbit Capital, Atreides, and Layer Global.
The money arrives at a moment when the AI coding market has looked like a tug-of-war between model makers and independent builders. Last year. signs pointed toward the biggest companies in AI swallowing much of the “hot market” for coding tools themselves—through products like Anthropic’s Claude Code. OpenAI’s Codex. and potentially Google’s coding agent Jules. That latter effort came after Google’s acqui-hire deal of Windsurf last year.
Cognition, though, is staking out a different position. The company says it acquired the remaining bits of Windsurf last year, and it now counts large enterprises as customers—Mercedes-Benz, NASA, Goldman Sachs, and Santander.
It also points to traction that goes beyond investor excitement. Cognition says it has reached $492 million in annualized revenue run-rate. It adds that enterprise usage of Devin has grown 50% month-over-month for the past six months.
The pace matters. A jump from a $400 million round in September to more than $1 billion now. alongside a valuation that scaled up from $10.2 billion post-money to a $25 billion pre-money figure. puts pressure on the company to keep proving Devin can earn its place where teams actually work. Cognition is betting that the market wants an independent “AI engineer” more than it wants another layer on top of whatever the model companies ship next.
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So they got a billion… does that mean Devin can finally fix my laptop or is it just for billionaires?
25 billion pre-money sounds insane like who is even valuing this stuff anymore. Also NASA buying it??? I’m surprised it’s not all classified or whatever.
Wait, I thought “Devin” was like an OpenAI thing? Maybe I’m mixing it up but if Google bought Windsurf stuff then why is this company acting like they’re different. Sounds like the same AI coding race, just new name on the contract.
Enterprise revenue run-rate 492 mil and 50% MoM… cool, but I’m still not convinced any of these coding agents won’t just spam pull requests that break everything. Like, “autonomous software engineer” sounds great until it can’t handle anything weird in a real codebase. Also didn’t Claude Code and Codex already do this? feels like investors just throwing money at buzzwords again.