- Joined
- Jun 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Sequoia CapitalScout
- Status
- Current
- Co-authored Cognition's 'Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model' (byline: Jacob Teo, Nikhil Jha, Connor Fogarty, Gary Chang, Theodor ...); SWE-1.5 shipped in Windsurf at ~950 tokens/sec.Oct 29, 2025
- Theodor Marcu is one of the founders of Representable.org, a tool that helps nonprofits fight gerrymandering by helping them map communities affected by badly drawn district lines across the country.
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (IP, product, trademark, brand and team) in July 2025, days after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO; Windsurf later became the surface for SWE-1.5 and Windsurf 2.0 / Devin Desktop that he markets.Jul 14, 2025
- Superdrop co-founder John Suh announced Cami on LinkedIn: "Theodor Marcu and I have been working on something new... Say hi to Cami"; John Suh's own profile lists Superdrop (acquired 2024) and heycami.ai with 3M+ users, backed by Lux Capital and Box Group.Jul 25, 2023
- Theodor Marcu was a senior studying Computer Science at Princeton University, Class of 2020.2020
- Theodor Marcu was a member of Princeton's Working Group on Internships and the Undergraduate Curriculum, listed as Class of 2020.Jun 27, 2019
- Interviewed on TBPN-style daily show (Apple Podcasts episode 'Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor + xAI, Codex Update', segment at 02:25:10) about the Windsurf 2.0 launch that integrates Devin.Apr 2026
- Techmeme's SWE-1.5 roundup quoted his launch post as Theodor Marcu / @theomarcu: "One of my personal goals at Cognition is ...".Oct 30, 2025
- Daily Princetonian covered Representable as a startup created by five students in COS 333 that partnered with Prof. Sam Wang's Princeton Gerrymandering Project and ran a pilot in Michigan, crediting Theodor Marcu '20.Aug 2020
- Public headline says "sudo devin make me a sandwich".
- Cognition was valued at $10.2B in September 2025, two months after the Windsurf acquisition, shortly after he joined in early 2025.Sep 8, 2025
- theodormarcu.com; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning.
Built heycami.com (3.3M users) Backed by Lux Capital, Box Group, Kevin Hartz, Balaji Srinivasan, Zach Perret, and more
Open-source mapping project backed by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Schmidt Futures Built it from the ground up
Built lots of applications on top of Orbital Insight's models Computer vision and geospatial analytics startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Lux Capital.
one underrated part of cloud agents that brings me a lot of joy is that i can run my macbook in clamshell mode without ever having to worry about my fans starting to spin https://t.co/UXX8FmFATz
Couldn’t be more excited to work with @AshwinRamaswami and @jackhcable, alongside the rest of the @corridor team. Welcome to Cognition!
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you know what i'm thinking
most engineers underestimate the level of productivity they can get to with the help of cloud agents
also this is such an awesome and well made video! kudos @annarmitchell / @itaismith / @alexkaplan0 and the whole cognition creative team :)
we’re facing exponential CVE growth because attackers are now using AI to find and weaponize vulnerabilities at industrial scale the good part is that the good guys can also use the same tools to produce a level of defense that outmatches those attackers (and companies like @cog
CLI in a box != cloud agent
@Mclader @cognition @ScottWu46 So pumped to work together 🫡
I love that the 0-60 video on Tesla's YouTube account is exactly 0.81 sec long https://t.co/ZF5PZZNfKS
For those of you who know me, you know this is a very special launch to me 🥲 One consequence of making software dramatically easier to write is that there will be much more of it. And all of that software still needs to be understood, monitored, and kept running reliably. We bu
@graceisford @cognition It's awesome to finally see this launch go out publicly :) Huge kudos to @anhangz / @yunpark93 / @jake_rachleff / Jeff Yan and of course @itaismith for making this possible
