# Andrew Karpos

![Andrew Karpos](/resources/cognition/portraits/andrew-karpos.webp)

Head of Finance at Cognition (Devin, Windsurf); ex-Replicate, Scale AI, Valinor, Greenhill  
Cognition  
San Francisco, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Head of Finance (Finance/Ops)
- Joined: Feb 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Director of Finance, Cloudflare
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Scale AI; Cloudflare (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979
- Domain: cognition.ai

## 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_cognition-has-raised-over-2b-at-a-48b-valuation-activity-7503148973361119232-FvY8)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_excited-to-share-that-im-joining-cognition-activity-7431578129967644672-r1nM)
- 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. (https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/cognition-hits-48b-valuation-signaling-investors-believe-ai-coding-is-far-from-a-winner-take-all-market/)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_why-replicate-is-joining-cloudflare-activity-7401444146332524544-C0fW)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_more-devins-in-more-places-cognition-activity-7465426639989018624-flk_)
- Opal Search Partners lists a Controller search run with "Andrew Karpos, Head of Finance at Cognition AI". (https://www.opalsearchpartners.com/current-work)
- Became Director of Finance at Cloudflare (Dec 2025 to Feb 2026) when Cloudflare acquired Replicate, then left for Cognition about three months later. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)
- 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. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_data-labeling-company-scale-ai-is-worth-73-activity-6787792273535975424-CURp)
- 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. (https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-replicate-joining-cloudflare)
- Posted "Thrilled to announce that Replicate is joining Cloudflare!" on the day the deal was announced. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_big-news-replicate-is-joining-cloudflare-activity-7396268460986654720-vDEw)
- Investor at Valinor Management (Sep 2018 to Aug 2020), working as a generalist on a 9-person investment team at a ~$2bn AUM Tiger Cub long/short equity hedge fund in New York. Valinor was founded by David Gallo, formerly of Tiger Management. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)
- Public headline says "Finance at Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)
- Started his career in investment banking at Greenhill & Co. in New York: a summer analyst in 2016, then an analyst from Jun 2017 to Aug 2018. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)
- Recall Capital's network page lists him as "Head of Finance @ Replicate". (https://www.recall.capital/network)
- Previous roles include Director of Finance at Cloudflare; Head of Finance & Operations at Replicate; Head of Corporate Finance and Strategy at Scale AI; Investor at Valinor Management; Investment Banking Analyst at Greenhill & Co.; Investment Banking Summer Analyst at Greenhill & Co. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)
- A 2014 Harding Academy alumni note says he spent a college summer in Hong Kong working for Prudential, was in Sigma Alpha Epsilon at UVA, played club tennis and volunteered with Special Olympics. (https://www.hardingacademy.org/news-detail?pk=745592)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979)

## Experience
- Head of Finance at Cognition - San Francisco, California, United States (Feb 2026 - Present)
- Director of Finance at Cloudflare - San Francisco, California, United States (Dec 2025 - Feb 2026): Joined Cloudflare as part of the acquisition of Replicate.
- Head of Finance & Operations at Replicate - San Francisco, California, United States (Mar 2024 - Dec 2025): 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 - San Francisco, California, United States (Aug 2020 - Mar 2024)
- Investor at Valinor Management - New York City Metropolitan Area (Sep 2018 - Aug 2020): Generalist on a 9 person investment team at a ~$2bn AUM Tiger Cub long/short equity hedge fund
- Investment Banking Analyst at Greenhill & Co. - New York City Metropolitan Area (Jun 2017 - Aug 2018)
- Investment Banking Summer Analyst at Greenhill & Co. - New York City (Jun 2016 - Aug 2016)

## Education
- University of Virginia - BS (Finance), BA (Statistics) - (Jan 2013 - Jan 2017)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979
- https://www.opalsearchpartners.com/current-work
- https://www.hardingacademy.org/news-detail?pk=745592
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-karpos-9aa76979?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABCqDFIBgVJUk7RsjYJ3xV-3EGTDTe8SWa8
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://www.recall.capital/network
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_data-labeling-company-scale-ai-is-worth-73-activity-6787792273535975424-CURp
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/cognition-hits-48b-valuation-signaling-investors-believe-ai-coding-is-far-from-a-winner-take-all-market/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-replicate-joining-cloudflare
- https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/17/cloudflare-acquires-ai-deployment-startup-replicate/
- https://github.com/andrewk
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_cognition-has-raised-over-2b-at-a-48b-valuation-activity-7503148973361119232-FvY8
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_excited-to-share-that-im-joining-cognition-activity-7431578129967644672-r1nM
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_why-replicate-is-joining-cloudflare-activity-7401444146332524544-C0fW
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_more-devins-in-more-places-cognition-activity-7465426639989018624-flk_
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-karpos-9aa76979_big-news-replicate-is-joining-cloudflare-activity-7396268460986654720-vDEw


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/andrew-karpos · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people