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Funding and backers

Total raised
$10M
16 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
SFC Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Jan 13 Raised a round Venture round Aug 25, 2025 Raised a round Venture round Sep 26, 2024 Raised a round Venture round Aug 1, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Feb 15, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Aug 30, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Mar 31, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Aug 6, 2021 Raised a round Venture round Feb 12, 2021 Raised a round Venture round Apr 28, 2020 Raised a round Venture round Jul 18, 2019 Raised a round Series B $10M · led by PeakSpan Capital · B2B Marketing Jul 9, 2019 Raised a round Venture round Apr 5, 2019 Raised a round Venture round Oct 19, 2018 Raised a round Venture round Apr 20, 2018 Raised a round Venture round Mar 21, 2016 Raised a round Venture round 2015 Founded
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Web presence
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of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2026 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Aug 2025 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Sep 2024 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Aug 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Feb 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Aug 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Aug 2021 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Feb 2021 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Apr 2020 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Series B Jul 2019 $10M PeakSpan Capital lead B2B Marketing
Venture round Jul 2019 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Apr 2019 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Oct 2018 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Apr 2018 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2016 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Joint Controllers Cognism Limited its site
Registered 16 Jan 2015
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Overview

Cognism provides sales intelligence data with phone-verified contact details and compliance controls for European markets. Founded in 2015 in London, it built machine learning pipelines for entity resolution across company and person records. Its Diamond Data verification distinguishes it in a crowded data market.

News

News BDM Tools 3 years ago
Cognism : un outil de prospection B2B
Tout savoir sur Cognism : fonctionnalités et avis des utilisateurs. Cognism est une plateforme conçue pour la prospection B2B.
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Award B2B Marketing 5 years ago
Award case study: Find out how Cognism won the award for 'UK-founded martech vendor of the year'
Find out how Cognism raised $12 million via AXA Venture Partners and helped over 1000 customers in 30 countries with compliant prospect data. Read about their other 2020 achievements and why they won the coveted award for 'UK- founded martech vendor of th
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News mediapost 6 years ago
Email Marketing Daily: Cognism Acquires Mailtastic, Email Signature Firm
Cognism Acquires Mailtastic, Email Signature Firm - 05/11/2020
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News B2B Marketing 7 years ago
Cognism raises $10 million for next generation sales acceleration
End-to-end sales acceleration platform Cognism has raised Series B funding led by PeakSpan Capital, bringing its total funding to just over $16.5 million.
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Press release PRNewswire 7 years ago
Cognism Raises £2.8m Funding Round led by Oliver Wyman to Expand Enterprise Solution
/PRNewswire/ -- Cognism, the end-to-end sales acceleration solution providing organisations with a more intelligent way to prospect, today announces that it...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Cognism over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
75
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL38%
Python23%
Java23%
Kotlin23%
Frameworks & libraries
FAISS8%
FastAPI8%
Keras8%
Metaflow8%
Databases
ElasticSearch8%
Milvus8%
PostgreSQL8%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes54%
AWS46%
Grafana31%
Apache Kafka31%
AI & ML
LLM15%
Claude8%
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
85/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
15
6 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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
25% ▲
Backend
15% ▼
Administrative
15% ▲
DevOps
10%
Support
10%
AI/ML
5% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Agile to stack Oct 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack Oct 2026
Added TorchServe to stack Oct 2026
Added pgvector to stack Oct 2026
Added ONNX Runtime to stack Oct 2026
Added NLP to stack Oct 2026
Added Milvus to stack Oct 2026
Added FAISS to stack Oct 2026
Added AWS CDK to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Oct 2026
New location: Paris Oct 2026
Added OpenAI to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
4
Countries
7
Busiest office
London
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London United Kingdom
HQ
London (HQ Office)
6 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, DevOps, Leadership
The Shard, 11th floor,
seen since Apr 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Warsaw Poland
Engineering / R&D
Warsaw
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Leadership
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Cologne Germany
Sales office
Cologne
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Sales
Pilgrimstr. 6 50674 Köln
seen since Sep 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Paris France
Sales office
Paris
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 careers board, job postings
Skopje North Macedonia
Regional office
Skopje
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
seen since Sep 2026 careers board
Lisbon Portugal
Regional office
Portugal
careers board
Boston United States
Regional office
Boston
33 Arch Street Boston, MA, 02110
company site, careers board
Vancouver United States
Regional office
Vancouver
careers board
Berlin Germany
Regional office
Berlin
careers board
Washington United States
Regional office
Washington DC
careers board
Mainz Germany
Regional office
Mainz
careers board

Jobs

≈ $57k – $96k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Poland
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
SQL
C#
Node JS
Scala
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $109k – $226k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • London
AI Agents
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
≈ $49k – $99k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Warsaw
Python
SQL
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Databricks
Milvus
pgvector
FAISS
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
Vertex AI
Scikit-learn
NLP
Kubeflow
TensorFlow
Keras
PyTorch
LLM
Triton
Amazon SageMaker
TorchServe
Metaflow
ONNX Runtime
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Kibana
AWS CDK
CircleCI
Logstash
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Amazon ECS
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≈ $68k – $114k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • 5+ years exp • London
Python
SQL
Terraform
Prometheus
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
FinOps
Amazon CloudWatch
Apply
≈ $62k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Poland
Python
Go
Bash
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Service Mesh
Amazon EKS
Amazon EC2
FinOps
Amazon S3
IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
Apply
≈ $85k – $132k per year (Estimated) • In office • Poland
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
Scala
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Claude
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Prometheus
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Apply
≈ $58k – $97k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Warsaw
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
SQL
C#
Node JS
Scala
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
≈ $21k – $60k per year (Estimated) • In office • 1+ year exp • Croatia
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Apply
≈ $129k – $237k per year (Estimated) • In office • London
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
IAM
Cybersecurity
SIEM
OWASP
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Financials

Total raised
$10M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
16
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 — Details
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Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
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Venture - Series Unknown 2021 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 — Details
Series B 2019 $10M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 — Details