- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- VivunStrategic Account Executive
- Status
- Current
- Current role: Strategic Account Executive at Cognition (Devin) since Jul 2025, San Francisco Bay Area; headline 'GTM @ Cognition (Devin)'. A go-to-market (sales) role, not an engineering one.Jul 2025
- Joined Cognition through its acquisition of Windsurf: he was a Windsurf Strategic Account Executive Apr-Jul 2025, and his LinkedIn notes the role as 'acquired by cognition.ai'.Apr 2025
- Posted on 2026-09-15: "Last week was a big one for Cognition. We raised $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir." He framed the customer question as "how do we scale our engineering ambition without burning tokens?"Sep 15, 2026Last week was a big one for Cognition. We raised $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. Pretty cool to see Marc Andreessen revisit "software is eating the world" 15 years later, and update the thesis in his post on why a16z backed Cognition: software has been eating the world at the speed of human hands. With Devin, it's about to eat it at the speed of compute. https://lnkd.in/ecfhugwU One thing that's top of mind for almost every company I talk to: how do we scale our engineering ambition without burning tokens? That's what we've been shipping against: - SWE-2, the most affordable coding model in the world. Near Fable 5.1 performance at 64% lower cost. https://lnkd.in/eTHB9U2v - Devin Fusion, now in the CLI and Devin Desktop. Up to 39% more efficient than running GPT-6 Astra or Claude Fable 5.1 alone. https://lnkd.in/en4NpWxA Speed of compute only matters if teams can actually afford to run at it. That's the problem we're here to solve.
- Since mid-2026 his posts line up with Cognition launches (Devin for Security, the productivity guarantee, FrontierCode, SWE-2/Devin Fusion, funding rounds) and stress cost and measurable output.Sep 2026Last week was a big one for Cognition. We raised $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. Pretty cool to see Marc Andreessen revisit "software is eating the world" 15 years later, and update the thesis in his post on why a16z backed Cognition: software has been eating the world at the speed of human hands. With Devin, it's about to eat it at the speed of compute. https://lnkd.in/ecfhugwU One thing that's top of mind for almost every company I talk to: how do we scale our engineering ambition without burning tokens? That's what we've been shipping against: - SWE-2, the most affordable coding model in the world. Near Fable 5.1 performance at 64% lower cost. https://lnkd.in/eTHB9U2v - Devin Fusion, now in the CLI and Devin Desktop. Up to 39% more efficient than running GPT-6 Astra or Claude Fable 5.1 alone. https://lnkd.in/en4NpWxA Speed of compute only matters if teams can actually afford to run at it. That's the problem we're here to solve.
- Posted on 2026-08-21: "My favorite value at Cognition is that we \"Go for it all.\" Ambition is in our DNA, and it's been an absolute blast helping our customers drive real outcomes with Devin..."Aug 21, 2026My favorite value at Cognition is that we "Go for it all." Ambition is in our DNA, and it's been an absolute blast helping our customers drive real outcomes with Devin: shipping faster, clearing backlogs, and taking on projects they'd been putting off for years. It's time to be ambitious. Do it all with Devin.
- Promotes the Devin productivity guarantee in his selling: "if Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we will fund your usage until it does".Jun 4, 2026Measuring value from AI is genuinely hard. We built a system to measure how many productive engineering hours every Devin task is worth, validated against a dataset of real engineers’ times estimates. The goal is to answer the fundamental question that companies are grappling with: how much real value are you getting from each of your agent sessions? We at Cognition are so confident in our AI products that we're willing to guarantee that if Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we will fund your usage until it does(https://devin.ai/guarantee) The whole industry needs to move from measuring activity to measuring output. We hope to see more AI companies taking this approach.
- Cognition signed a deal to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium) on 2025-07-14. The deal covered Windsurf's IP, product, trademark, brand and team, and the team joined 'the iconic company that created Devin'.Jul 14, 2025
- Announced the Windsurf move on 2025-04-09, in his own words: "I'm excited to share that I'll be joining Windsurf (fka Codeium) as a Strategic Account Executive! The team is laser-focused on building the future of software development..."Apr 9, 2025
- Everlaw, 2016-2023: joined as Founding AE and 30th employee at a Series A startup. He helped build the sales process, playbook and culture as Everlaw scaled to 500+ employees and a $2B valuation, and was Executive Sponsor of the AAPI Employee Resource Group.Oct 2016
- Reposted Cognition crossing $1B in annualized revenue (Sep 2026) with: "Still so much more to build. None of this happens without the trust of our customers solving the hardest software engineering problems with Devin."Sep 25, 2026
- Pitches Devin for Security: "Old world: find issues, file tickets / Better world: show up with a PR". He notes "Nothing merges without a human."May 5, 2026Feels like every week there’s another security incident. When I talk to teams, the issue isn’t finding problems - it’s fixing them. There’s no shortage of scanners, alerts, or dashboards. There is a shortage of time and engineering capacity. That’s the gap we’re trying to close with Devin for Security: https://devin.ai/security Instead of just flagging issues, Devin can take a finding, dig into the code, implement a fix, run tests, and open a PR. Devin Review then helps engineers evaluate it with full context. All the usual controls still apply. Nothing merges without a human. Old world: find issues, file tickets Better world: show up with a PR
- Windsurf/Cognition GTM leader Arif Shenoy tagged him (alongside Abhay A., Satwik Bebortha, Priya P. and others) in a May 2026 post titled 'It's been a wild ride from the Windsurf acquisition'.May 2026
acquired by cognition.ai
Vivun built one of the first AI Sales Agents. Key wins with: Writer AI, Qualys, Thoughtspot, Workato, Forcepoint, Iterable, Paylocity, Sonatype, Rackspace, Recorded Future, Flexential, Flexera, ncino and Dynamic Yield
After ~7 years at Everlaw, I took some time to recharge and reset. Traveled across the US, Europe and Japan. Spent time with my family on the East Coast. Read 15 books, trained for a 10K and made the important decision to move from management back to an AE role as I transitioned into fatherhood
I joined as a Founding AE and 30th employee at a Series A startup. Over the 6.5 years, I helped build the sales process, the sales playbook, the sales culture and key Enterprise customer relationships to help scale Everlaw to 500+ employees and a $2B valuation. I helped launch the AAPI Employee Resource Group at Everlaw, serving as the Executive Sponsor. 135% Q1 FY24 Attainment, 179% Q4 FY23, 121% Q3 FY23, 110% Q2 FY23 Hired, onboarded and managed 5 AEs to build an outbound and strategic Mid-Market segment
Launched and led Everlaw’s European operation Hired, onboarded and managed an 11 person Sales team (AEs, SDRs, SAs) Notable new customer wins: Shell, McLaren, Dentsu, Saint Gobain, Homeserve, Wickes, Addleshaw Goddard, Travers Smith, Taylor Wessing, Womble Bond Dickinson and Shepherd Wedderburn
Notable new customer wins: Google, Juniper Networks, Zenefits, Orrick, Hanson Bridgett, McDonald Carano, San Francisco District Attorney and Santa Clara County Counsel 154% FY19 Attainment, $750K Quota; 92% FY18 Attainment, $625K Quota
- Started in Oracle's ClassOf program with 700 college grads; 1 of 11 promoted to Outside sales roles - Promoted to Sr. Inside Sales AE - winner of Team Leadership award and multiple team MVP awards, mentor to ClassOf 2014, led career talk to 500 ClassOf 2015 grads. - Promoted to Enterprise Account Executive - Supporting 10 Named High Tech companies in the Bay Area (Apple, Juniper Networks, Marvell, etc.) 123% FY15 Quota; $1.1million Quota (Inside Sales) 80% FY16 Quota; $2.7 million Quota – #1 Rep for the Southwest Region (Outside Sales)
Cross cultural study abroad experience in Paris at the #2 Masters in Management school in the world
Last week was a big one for Cognition. We raised $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. Pretty cool to see Marc Andreessen revisit "software is eating the world" 15 years later, and update the thesis in his post on why a16z backed Cognition: software has been eating the world at the speed of human hands. With Devin, it's about to eat it at the speed of compute. https://lnkd.in/ecfhugwU One thing that's top of mind for almost every company I talk to: how do we scale our engineering ambition without burning tokens? That's what we've been shipping against: - SWE-2, the most affordable coding model in the world. Near Fable 5.1 performance at 64% lower cost. https://lnkd.in/eTHB9U2v - Devin Fusion, now in the CLI and Devin Desktop. Up to 39% more efficient than running GPT-6 Astra or Claude Fable 5.1 alone. https://lnkd.in/en4NpWxA Speed of compute only matters if teams can actually afford to run at it. That's the problem we're here to solve.
My favorite value at Cognition is that we "Go for it all." Ambition is in our DNA, and it's been an absolute blast helping our customers drive real outcomes with Devin: shipping faster, clearing backlogs, and taking on projects they'd been putting off for years. It's time to be ambitious. Do it all with Devin.
Measuring value from AI is genuinely hard. We built a system to measure how many productive engineering hours every Devin task is worth, validated against a dataset of real engineers’ times estimates. The goal is to answer the fundamental question that companies are grappling with: how much real value are you getting from each of your agent sessions? We at Cognition are so confident in our AI products that we're willing to guarantee that if Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we will fund your usage until it does(https://devin.ai/guarantee) The whole industry needs to move from measuring activity to measuring output. We hope to see more AI companies taking this approach.
linkedin.com/posts/chiragzaveri_the-ai-productivity-guarantee-activity-7468377431486427136-LBUFnotedExcited to share that Cognition has raised over $1B at a $26B valuation. This milestone wouldn't be possible without our customers and partners who have trusted us, pushed us, and built alongside us. And it feels like we're just getting started. We're doubling down on the product experience - helping companies harness the full power of local and cloud-based agents working together to deliver real engineering outcomes. If you're excited about the future of software engineering, we're hiring. And if you haven't tried Devin yet, now's a great time! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gimZNt7c
Feels like every week there’s another security incident. When I talk to teams, the issue isn’t finding problems - it’s fixing them. There’s no shortage of scanners, alerts, or dashboards. There is a shortage of time and engineering capacity. That’s the gap we’re trying to close with Devin for Security: https://devin.ai/security Instead of just flagging issues, Devin can take a finding, dig into the code, implement a fix, run tests, and open a PR. Devin Review then helps engineers evaluate it with full context. All the usual controls still apply. Nothing merges without a human. Old world: find issues, file tickets Better world: show up with a PR
Introducing FrontierCode: a new coding eval by Cognition that raises the bar for difficulty and quality. Most coding benchmarks ask: does the code pass unit tests? FrontierCode asks a harder question: would you actually merge it? Models can increasingly write code that works, but is sloppy, brittle, or hard to maintain. FrontierCode is designed to measure whether AI-generated code meets the standards of real-world software engineering. Read the full model results and technical implementation details: https://lnkd.in/eTQufgGi
Excited to see Cognition named to the Forbes AI 50! Proud to be part of the team building the future of software engineering. We are hiring across all roles, DM if you are interested in joining the team! https://lnkd.in/gXHcgenF
