- Joined
- Feb 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- CloudflareDirector of Finance
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
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Details
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityUniversity of Virginia
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Notes
- After the Series E he posted on 2026-09-08: "Proud to share Cognition's Series E. Grateful to be a part of this team and company. We're still early, now back to building!" It was his first major financing as Head of Finance, about seven months into the job.Sep 8, 2026
- Announced on LinkedIn on 2026-02-23: "Excited to share that I'm joining Cognition as Head of Finance!" This came about 12 weeks after the Cloudflare-Replicate deal closed.Feb 23, 2026Excited to share that I’m joining Cognition as Head of Finance!
- Cognition's Series E raised $2B at a $48B valuation and was announced on 2026-09-08, the same day as his "Proud to share Cognition's Series E" post. It was the second large raise of his tenure, after the $26B-valuation round in May 2026.Sep 8, 2026
- Helped run Replicate's sale to Cloudflare. On the deal's close he thanked Orrick counsel (Kyle Zhu, Mark W. Seneca), Cloudflare's Mia Wang and Winston Wilkinson, investors Matt Bornstein (a16z) and Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia), and Replicate co-founders Ben Firshman and Andreas Jansson.Dec 2, 2025Happy to share that Cloudflare's acquisition of Replicate officially closed today. Incredibly proud of the Replicate team and the tremendous amount of work to make this happen over the past few months. Thank you to our partners at Orrick (Kyle Zhu Mark W. Seneca) and Cloudflare (Mia Wang Winston Wilkinson) for your time and energy throughout the deal process. Thank you to all of our customers and investors (Matt Bornstein Stephanie Zhan) for believing in the mission since Ben Firshman Andreas Jansson created Replicate 6 years ago. Excited for the next phase of the journey as part of Cloudflare: https://lnkd.in/gR2T6XsW
- Was Replicate's first finance hire (Mar 2024 to Dec 2025) as Head of Finance & Operations, covering finance, accounting, operations, data and legal at the a16z- and Sequoia-backed AI infrastructure company.Mar 2024
- Reposted Cognition's 2026-05 announcement that it had "raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC". This was the first raise after he joined, and finance-led fundraising was part of his remit.May 31, 2026
- Opal Search Partners lists a Controller search run with "Andrew Karpos, Head of Finance at Cognition AI".2026
- Became Director of Finance at Cloudflare (Dec 2025 to Feb 2026) when Cloudflare acquired Replicate, then left for Cognition about three months later.Dec 2025
- Cognition bought Windsurf in July 2025, days after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and research leaders. That was about seven months before he joined.Jul 14, 2025
- Spent Aug 2020 to Mar 2024 as Head of Corporate Finance and Strategy at Scale AI. Scale's valuation grew during this period, and in 2021 he shared Fortune's coverage of its $7.3B valuation.Apr 2021
- Cloudflare's blog post announcing that Replicate was officially part of Cloudflare came out the day of his closing post. Cloudflare first announced the acquisition on 2025-11-17.Dec 1, 2025
- Posted "Thrilled to announce that Replicate is joining Cloudflare!" on the day the deal was announced.Nov 17, 2025
Experience
Head of Finance at Cognition
Feb 2026 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States
Director of Finance at Cloudflare
Dec 2025 - Feb 2026
San Francisco, California, United States
Joined Cloudflare as part of the acquisition of Replicate.
Head of Finance & Operations at Replicate
Mar 2024 - Dec 2025
San Francisco, California, United States
Acquired by Cloudflare. Replicate was an AI infrastructure company backed by a16z and Sequoia. As the first finance hire I led finance, accounting, operations, data, legal.
Head of Corporate Finance and Strategy at Scale AI
Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
San Francisco, California, United States
Investor at Valinor Management
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
New York City Metropolitan Area
Generalist on a 9 person investment team at a ~$2bn AUM Tiger Cub long/short equity hedge fund
Investment Banking Analyst at Greenhill & Co.
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
New York City Metropolitan Area
Investment Banking Summer Analyst at Greenhill & Co.
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
New York City
Education
University of Virginia
Jan 2013 - Jan 2017
BS (Finance), BA (Statistics)
Recent posts
February 2026
Excited to share that I’m joining Cognition as Head of Finance!
December 2025
Happy to share that Cloudflare's acquisition of Replicate officially closed today. Incredibly proud of the Replicate team and the tremendous amount of work to make this happen over the past few months. Thank you to our partners at Orrick (Kyle Zhu Mark W. Seneca) and Cloudflare (Mia Wang Winston Wilkinson) for your time and energy throughout the deal process. Thank you to all of our customers and investors (Matt Bornstein Stephanie Zhan) for believing in the mission since Ben Firshman Andreas Jansson created Replicate 6 years ago. Excited for the next phase of the journey as part of Cloudflare: https://lnkd.in/gR2T6XsW
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