Cognition's acquisitions

6 companies joined Cognition between Jul 2025 and Oct 2026, starting with Windsurf. 2 smaller teams came more quietly.

Updated 2026-11-04 · 50 sources

6
companies, 2025 to 2026
113
people who came to Cognition with a deal
79
of them with full profiles
1
price disclosed
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Every deal

In date order, from Jul 14, 2025 to Oct 28, 2026. Faces are the people who joined with each company and have a full profile.

20252026Windsurf Jul 14Havana Apr 29TierZero Jul 20Poke Jul 23Dioxus Labs Sep 10Corridor Oct 28
Acquisition

Havana

Cognition's press release described Havana as a startup building AI agents; Havana's November 2025 release described an AI student recruitment platform for higher education.

Nathan WangliaoZhan Xiong Chin2 profiles
Acquisition

Poke

The Interaction Company of California

Poke is a personal agent that lives in your texts, per Cognition's announcement.

Price TechCrunch reported the deal valued the company in the "low nine figures", a price co-founder Marvin von Hagen confirmed to TechCrunch.

Marvin von HagenFelix SchlegelSamyok NepalMax LohmannPavel Tritchkov5 profiles
Not announced by Cognition2 more teamsNick Wong, Rakeeb HossainSee below ↓
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Backed or advised before the deal

Before these deals, people at Cognition had already backed or advised the companies.

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Quieter deals

Teams whose own profiles or pages say they joined Cognition, though Cognition has not announced a deal. Worded as each source states it.

  • Nick Wong's compliance services company

    In his Cognition team spotlight, Special Projects Engineer Nick Wong says he and a cofounder were building a compliance implementation services company, that Calvin (VP of Customer Engineering) "suggested Cognition could acquire my company", and a caption reads "Scott congratulating us on our acquisition!" The company is not named.

    Sources1cognition.com2linkedin.com

  • Consul

    Y Combinator's page for Consul (W24, a stablecoin payouts platform founded by Rakeeb Hossain and David Lalor) lists its status as Acquired without naming a buyer; Rakeeb Hossain's LinkedIn lists Cognition as his current company.

    Sources1ycombinator.com2linkedin.com
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More on Cognition

The peopleThe people at CognitionEveryone Autumn found who works or worked at Cognition, by team, with a sourced profile for the leadership, researchers and engineers.Open →OlympiadsOlympiad medalists at CognitionThe math and informatics olympiad medalists at Cognition, the years they won and the national and ICPC teams they shared.Open →Worked togetherWhere Cognition's people worked together beforeThe companies, startups, labs, schools and contest teams where people now or formerly at Cognition overlapped before joining.Open →CultureCognition's culture in its people's wordsWhat people at Cognition have said publicly about how they work, quoted verbatim with the date and a link to each.Open →
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How we made this

Research task Completed
Prompt

Enrich {name}, {title} at Cognition (Devin, Devin Desktop/Windsurf). Dig into what they've built or worked on at Cognition and how they got there, including any company Cognition acquired. Before Cognition, look for the specific teams, desks, labs and co-founders they worked with, and any olympiad, ICPC or training-camp history with teammates. Pull in their open source work and anything they've posted publicly about working at Cognition, quoted word for word. This is for a public page, so skip contact details.

Profiles of people who joined
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Autumn research tasks
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Sources
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