# Kamran Pirasteh

Applied AI Team Lead at Cognition (Devin, Windsurf); ex-Insight Partners VP, ex-McKinsey, founder of Tandem Medical  
Cognition  
New York, New York, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Applied AI Team Lead (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: Jun 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Head of New Initiative Strat / Ops, Haus
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: McKinsey & Company (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-pirasteh
- GitHub: https://github.com/Kamran-Pirasteh
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Investing
- Haus · Series A · 2023-08
- Rollstack · Series A · $11M

## Notes
- A November 2026 breakdown of Cognition's ~300-person go-to-market org names him as the leader of Applied AI (~10 people), the team that 'help[s] each customer's engineers change how they work with Devin', with Felicia Nan (ex-Stripe) and Rose Landeira (ex-McKinsey) on his team. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/isabelle-i_this-is-the-sales-team-behind-cognitions-activity-7523093721865850880-mxWB)
- Promoted to Applied AI Team Lead at Cognition in October 2026, about four months after joining Cognition's Applied AI org in June 2026. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-pirasteh)
- August 2026 LinkedIn post, verbatim: "Not much of a LinkedIn poster but man is it fun to work at Cognition, INSANE pace, opportunity, and impact and still feels like a startup in all the best ways!!" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_not-much-of-a-linkedin-poster-but-man-is-activity-7497107806756728832-ITCL)
- June 2026 LinkedIn post announcing the move, verbatim: "Excited to be joining the Applied AI org at Cognition!" (205 reactions, 30 comments). (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_excited-to-be-joining-the-applied-ai-org-activity-7472745072485273600-TVAM)
- As an Insight Partners investor he announced Insight's Series A in Haus in August 2023 ('With our Series A investment in Zach and the Haus team finally made public...'), CC'ing Insight colleagues Jonathan Rosenbaum and Sabrina Lu; he left Insight in April 2025 to join Haus as an operator, an investor-to-operator jump into his own portfolio company. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_behind-the-investment-haus-activity-7092933308111536128-DPfJ)
- Founder & CEO of Tandem Medical (2016-2018), a UVA student startup building role-based hospital messaging/task software ('a cross between JIRA and Slack') to replace pagers; co-founded with Ripley Carroll (sales/business development, CSO) and James Wang (commerce + CS, led development). (https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-entrepreneurs-take-health-cares-biggest-headache-communication)
- Same post places his team inside Cognition's GTM machine alongside ~95 deployed engineers and ~130 account executives; Cognition bought Windsurf in July 2025 and almost 1 in 6 GTM staff are ex-Windsurf. He did not come through the Windsurf acquisition: he joined from Haus. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/isabelle-i_this-is-the-sales-team-behind-cognitions-activity-7523093721865850880-mxWB)
- September 2026 repost of a Cognition job opening with his comment, verbatim: "Awesome opportunity at Cog for former consultants! Feel free to reach out with any questions!" -. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_jobs-activity-7503875435177455616-tAza)
- Before Cognition he was Head of New Initiative Strategy/Ops at Haus (Haus Analytics, growth-marketing incrementality) from April 2025 to June 2026, and has stayed on as an Advisor since June 2026. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-pirasteh)
- Vice President at Insight Partners (June 2020 - April 2025) in New York; investor directory lists an investment range of $10M-$350M with a $25M sweet spot. (https://signal.nfx.com/investors/kamran-pirasteh)
- Led/represented Insight Partners in Rollstack's $11M Series A and joined Rollstack's Board of Directors; quoted: 'Rollstack is elegantly solving a massive and universal problem relevant to businesses.' (https://www.insightpartners.com/ideas/rollstack-raises-11m-series-a-to-automate-your-presentations-with-ai/)
- Consultant at McKinsey & Company, August 2018 - May 2020, before moving to Insight Partners; his GitHub account display name is 'Kamran Pirasteh (McKinsey)'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-pirasteh)
- Origin story: he spent a summer shadowing a health-care thought leader and logged a couple of hundred hours observing providers at a Maryland hospital before building Tandem; he said providers spend ~20% of their time figuring out whom to contact. (https://www.wmra.org/wmra-news/2017-05-01/can-this-student-app-save-time-at-the-doctors-office)
- Co-wrote an Insight Partners 'Behind the Investment' piece on Software Defined Automation (PLC lifecycle management) with Insight colleague Jonathan Rosenbaum, his recurring deal partner. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dennis-kuesters_behind-the-investment-software-defined-automation-activity-7003817744865329152-7Cdv)
- Tandem's software was built by James Wang with student developers John Herman and Charlie Wu, while Pirasteh and Carroll worked hospitals, alumni mentors and health-care companies. (https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-entrepreneurs-take-health-cares-biggest-headache-communication)
- Studied at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce (third-year student in April 2017). (https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-entrepreneurs-take-health-cares-biggest-headache-communication)
- Haus Series A co-investors he named: Haystack, Baseline Ventures, Upside Partnership, Mantis Venture Capital, Octave Ventures and BoxGroup. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_behind-the-investment-haus-activity-7092933308111536128-DPfJ)
- Quote from 2017: 'If you picture the health care industry in 20 years, providers are not still going to be using pagers.' (https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-entrepreneurs-take-health-cares-biggest-headache-communication)
- Listed on Team #2 'Embrace' with Jordan Rohrlich and Ripley Carroll in UVA's 2017 Global Health Case Competition program. (https://issuu.com/uvacgh/docs/ghcc_2017_program)
- Tandem Medical (Charlottesville, founded 2016) is listed on F6S with team members Ripley Carroll and Puneet Chopra. (https://www.f6s.com/company/tandemmedical)
- USPA livestream in April 2018 featured 'UVA's Kamran Pirasteh' in collegiate polo play. (https://x.com/PoloAssociation/status/982044261595140099)

## Experience
- Applied AI Team Lead at Cognition (Oct 2026 - Present)
- Advisor at Haus (Jun 2026 - Present)
- Applied AI at Cognition (Jun 2026 - Oct 2026)
- Head of New Initiative Strat / Ops at Haus (Apr 2025 - Jun 2026)
- Vice President at Insight Partners (Jun 2020 - Apr 2025)
- Consultant at McKinsey & Company (Aug 2018 - May 2020)
- CEO & Founder at Tandem Medical (Jan 2016 - Dec 2018)

## Education
- University of Virginia

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-pirasteh
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/isabelle-i_this-is-the-sales-team-behind-cognitions-activity-7523093721865850880-mxWB
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_behind-the-investment-haus-activity-7092933308111536128-DPfJ
- https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-entrepreneurs-take-health-cares-biggest-headache-communication
- https://sidelinesmagazine.com/z-archives/asides/asides-25/
- https://www.insightpartners.com/ideas/rollstack-raises-11m-series-a-to-automate-your-presentations-with-ai/
- https://github.com/Kamran-Pirasteh
- https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2014/10/polo-red-downs-skidmore-remains-undefeated
- https://x.com/PoloAssociation
- https://issuu.com/uvacgh/docs/ghcc_2017_program
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2016-uva-entrepreneurship-cup-first-round-results-keith-williams
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dennis-kuesters_behind-the-investment-software-defined-automation-activity-7003817744865329152-7Cdv
- https://signal.nfx.com/investors/kamran-pirasteh
- https://www.f6s.com/company/tandemmedical
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-pirasteh?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABX1TzwB1jjcdNbRxJRoF-zDhIh26AZxsJQ
- https://www.wmra.org/wmra-news/2017-05-01/can-this-student-app-save-time-at-the-doctors-office
- https://www.citybiz.co/article/615638/rollstack-raises-11m-series-a/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_jobs-activity-7503875435177455616-tAza
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_not-much-of-a-linkedin-poster-but-man-is-activity-7497107806756728832-ITCL
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kamran-pirasteh_excited-to-be-joining-the-applied-ai-org-activity-7472745072485273600-TVAM
- https://x.com/PoloAssociation/status/982044261595140099


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