Cogent Security
Cybersecurity AI · AI Agents
$53Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
20open roles
$300kmedian advertised pay
$42Mlatest round · Series A · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Overview
Cogent Security is a cybersecurity startup based in San Francisco that builds AI agents to investigate, prioritize and remediate software vulnerabilities for enterprise security teams. Founded by Vineet Edupuganti, Geng Sng and Thanos Baskous, formerly of Abnormal AI and Coinbase, it is backed by Greylock and Bain Capital Ventures and works with large enterprises on autonomous vulnerability management, with offices in San Francisco and New York. It hires enterprise, mid-market and major account executives, channel account managers, software engineers for backend, infrastructure, data platform and applied AI work, forward deployed agent engineers, and marketing and finance staff.
How Cogent Security hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
50 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%
Cogent Security scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 50 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$53M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$42M
Series A · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
50
+9 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Bain Capital Ventures, Greylock
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 18
Raised a round Series A $42M
Jul 17, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $11M · Pulse 2.0
Dec 1998
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Feb 2026 | $42M | — | securityweek.com |
| Venture round | Jul 2025 | $11M | — | Pulse 2.0 |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$160k – $300k
Open positions
12
8
Jobs
Junior
25%
Senior
62.5%
Staff
12.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $230k | $160k – $300k |
| Senior | 5 | $300k | $300k |
| Staff | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Cogent AI Fellowship
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cogent Security
By role, level and city, against the market · 12 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
5 ▲ 150%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$188k
Median offered salary
50
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
5
In the register as Cogent Security, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
ZeroPath 
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 1, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
42/100
Stable
Open positions
50
8 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
30% ▼
Marketing
26% ▲
Backend
17% ▼
Solutions
7% ▼
Security
4% ▲
Finance
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Marketing (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+8 jobs in a week
Nov 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack
Oct 2026
Added Mythic to stack
Oct 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Oct 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Oct 2026
Added ServiceNow to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linear to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack
Oct 2026
Added Crowdstrike to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cogent Security over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
69
Postings analysed
55
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python15%
TypeScript9%
SQL7%
Go5%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js4%
Angular2%
Flink2%
Vue.js2%
Databases
ClickHouse4%
PostgreSQL4%
Amazon Aurora2%
Google BigQuery2%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks87%
Scale AI87%
Wiz87%
Zscaler87%
AI & ML
ChatGPT4%
Claude4%
LLM4%
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News
Exclusive: Cogent Security debuts VR-1, a frontier model built to prove attack paths
Exclusive: Cogent Security debuts VR-1, a frontier model built to prove attack paths - SiliconANGLE
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Cogent Security launches autonomous vulnerability response tools as AI-assisted exploits outpace scanners
Cogent Security launches autonomous vulnerability response tools as AI-assisted exploits outpace scanners - SiliconANGLE
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Cogent zeroes in on zero-day response for rapid remediation Computer Weekly May 27, 2026
Cogent zeroes in on zero-day response for rapid remediation
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Cogent: AI Exploit Developer Threats Outpace Scanner Detection On Critical Vulnerabilities Security Boulevard May 27, 2026
Cogent: AI Exploit Developer Threats Outpace Scanner Detection On Critical Vulnerabilities
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Exploits outpace detection for critical vulnerabilities BetaNews May 27, 2026
Exploits outpace detection for critical vulnerabilities
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AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection Dark Reading May 27, 2026
AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection
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What Mythos Tells Us About the Future of Vulnerability Management Security Boulevard May 13, 2026
What Mythos Tells Us About the Future of Vulnerability Management
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Vibe Hacking has arrived and we have to figure out how to stop it SC Media Mar 24, 2026
Vibe Hacking has arrived and we have to figure out how to stop it
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MSSP Market News: MSSPs Shift From Tool Operations to Scalable, Outcome-Led Services MSSP Alert Feb 23, 2026
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
29 open roles 26 posted in 90 days 41% engineering 21% remote 50-200 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Sales
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
24 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 42% engineering 8% remote 50-200 est. staff $286k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Sales