Cognition's acquisition of Dioxus Labs
Dioxus Labs makes Dioxus, which its site calls a fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust.
3 people joined Cognition with Dioxus Labs, including its founder. 3 have full profiles.
Updated 2026-11-04 · 9 sources
- Announced
- Sep 10, 2026
- Deal
- Team joined Cognition ("The Dioxus team is joining Cognition"); YC's company page lists Dioxus Labs as Acquired
- Price
- Not disclosed
- Joined Cognition
- 3people, 3 with full profiles
What happened, by date
3 dated entries on Sep 10, 2026, each with its source.
Jonathan Kelley wrote that the Dioxus team was joining Cognition to accelerate the development of Devin.
Sources1dioxuslabs.comCognition welcomed Jonathan Kelley and the Dioxus team and said it had used Dioxus extensively to build Devin.
Sources1cognition.comKelley wrote that Dioxus had raised $3.5M in venture funding, thanking investors Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures.
Sources1dioxuslabs.com
Who joined Cognition
Founders first. Each card shows the role before the deal and links to a full profile.
In their own words
3 quotes, verbatim, with the date and a link to each.
The Dioxus team is joining Cognition to accelerate Devin, and will keep building Dioxus, Blitz, Taffy, and Subsecond. … Originally, Dioxus was just a side project to pass time during the last summer of Covid.
Jonathan KelleyDioxus Labs founderSep 10, 2026 · dioxuslabs.comThe dioxus team is insanely cracked.
Steven HaoCo-Founder and CTOSep 10, 2026 · XNow I get to fly x-wings at work to stress test Devin's new 60fps QUIC based VNC
Is this what they meant by "have fun at work?" 🥹
Jonathan KelleyMember of Technical Staff (Dioxus Labs founder)Oct 1, 2026 · XWhat happened to Dioxus Labs
Dioxus stays open source: the team said it will keep building Dioxus, Blitz, Taffy and Subsecond and maintain its open source projects, and Cognition said it will continue to support Dioxus' open source work.
Cognition's other acquisitions
- WindsurfWindsurf made an AI-powered IDE; Cognition's announcement called it "the agentic IDE".Open →
- HavanaCognition'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.Open →
- TierZeroTierZero makes "AI production agents that live in your stack, solve problems automatically, and get smarter with every issue they resolve."Open →
- PokePoke is a personal agent that lives in your texts, per Cognition's announcement.Open →
- CorridorForbes described Corridor's product as an AI system that watches AI and human coders and issues alerts when vulnerabilities arise as software is being written.Open →
How we made this
Research task CompletedEnrich {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.
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