Cognida
AI Consulting & Integration
$19.7Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
9open roles
$15Mlatest round · Series A · Feb 2025 · 21 mo ago
1backers · Nexus Venture Partners
Overview
Cognida helps enterprises and AI builders turn frontier AI into dependable production systems across data, applications, workflows, integrations, and governance.
Key facts
As of Nov 12, 2026, Alion lists 9 open roles at Cognida. Cognida is headquartered in Lincolnshire, United States. It was founded in 2021. It has raised $19.7M in 2 funding rounds. The latest round is Series A of $15M, announced in 2025.
- Open roles
- 9Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 12, 2026
- Headquarters
- Lincolnshire, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 12, 2026
- Founded
- 2021Alion company profile, updated Nov 12, 2026
- Employees
- 10+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $19.7MSum of 2 equity rounds Alion knows
- Latest round
- Series A · $15M · Feb 6, 2025Press report · venturebeat.com
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 7 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 30, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 62Named in its job postings
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$19.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$15M
Series A · Feb 2025 · 21 mo ago
Team
19
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +27% in a year
Hiring now
9
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Nexus Venture Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
19/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Aug 25
Acquisition Cognida Acquires Automate From Within To Expand AI-Native Accounting And Operations Platform · Pulse 2.0
Feb 6, 2025
Raised a round Series A $15M · Venturebeat
Oct 28, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $4.7M · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Feb 2025 | $15M | — | Venturebeat |
| Venture round | Oct 2022 | $4.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Cognida Inc | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Sumesh BalakrishmanExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Maruthi DogiparthiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
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Management
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≈ $22k – $45k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Hyderabad
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pySpark
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≈ $74k – $173k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 15+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Lincolnshire
Agile
Scrum
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In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Hyderabad
JavaScript
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
Anomaly Detection
DevOps
Rest API
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
SOAP
Analytics
Master Data Management
Management
SharePoint
Marketing
Salesforce
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≈ $110k – $230k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · San Francisco
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≈ $145k – $291k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · San Francisco
SQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Multi-Agent Systems
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≈ $29k – $51k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · 15+ years exp · Hyderabad
Python
JavaScript
Java
Node JS
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
DevOps
CI/CD
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≈ $21k – $51k per year (Estimated) · In office · 12+ years exp · Hyderabad
Python
Java
SQL
Ruby
Apex
MuleSoft
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
SOAP
Management
SharePoint
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Visa sponsorship
7
H-1B filings in 12 months
$145k
Median offered salary
3
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer systems analysts
2
Data scientists
2
Software developers
2
In the register as Cognida Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
Boston Consulting Group 
EXL 
Brillio 
Tiger Analytics
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
36/100
Slowing
Open positions
9
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
34 days
faster than 40% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
11/12/2026
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
36% ▲
Solutions
36% ▼
AI/ML
9% ▼
Leadership
9% ▲
Operations
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Apex to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added SOAP to stack
Sep 2026
Added SharePoint to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ruby to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added MuleSoft to stack
Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Sep 2026
People
Sumesh Balakrishman
Executive Officer
Maruthi Dogiparthi
Executive Officer, Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cognida over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
62
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
Java
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry
Databases
Delta Lake
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
AWS Lambda
AI & ML
LLM
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News
Cognida Acquires Automate From Within To Expand AI-Native Accounting And Operations Platform
Cognida has acquired Automate, an enterprise AI platform for accounting and operational workflows, from Within, formerly known as Klarity. Automate applies AI to complex workflows across quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes.
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Cognida Acquires the Automate Platform to Advance AI-Native Accounting and Operations
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 24, 2026--Cognida today announced that it has acquired Automate, an enterprise AI platform for accounting and operational workflows, from Within (formerly Klarity). Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Cognida.ai: Interview With Founder & CEO Feroze Mohammed About The Enterprise AI Solutions Company
Cognida.ai is a technology consulting and software engineering company that provides practical and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for enterprises. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cognida.ai founder and CEO Feroze Mohammed to gain a deeper understan
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Cognida.ai: $15 Million (Series A) Raised For Enterprise AI Adoption Platform
Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, announced the closing of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners. This funding validates Cognida.ai's unique approach to making AI implementation practical and f
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Cognida.ai Secures $15 Million Series A from Nexus Venture Partners to Redefine Enterprise AI Adoption
Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, today announced the successful close of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus ...
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Cognida.ai raises $15M to cut AI deployment time
Cognida.ai will use the series A to reduce deployment time from 8 months to 12 weeks and deliver practical, measurable business outcomes.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Lincolnshire
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Lincolnshire
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations
Hyderabad
India
Regional office
6 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Solutions, AI/ML, Leadership
San Francisco
United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales, Solutions
Sunnyvale
United States
Regional office
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440 N. Wolfe Road, , Sunnyvale, CA 94085