Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal :
Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance”
Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts …
Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M+ at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March
The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf. — SaveComment Bluesky: @rashis Bluesky: Rashi Shrivastava / @rash...
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz / @gergely.pragmati...
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports …
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsoft over IP. — Then ...
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank will “start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI software engineer, as Wall Street firms adopt AI
The newest hire at Goldman Sachs isn't human. — The bank is testing an autonomous software engineer …
Sources: AI coding assistant Devin developer Cognition raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a nearly $4B valuation, up from its $2B valuation in April 2024
The new funding round is being led by 8VC, the Joe Lonsdale-backed venture capital firm, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.