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Funding and backers

Total raised
$40M
1 round on record
Latest round
$40M
Series A · Mar 2026 · 7 mo ago
Backers
2
South Park Commons, Nexus Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 24 Raised a round Series A $40M · SEC Form D Apr 8, 2025 Launched Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI · YahooFinance 2024 Founded
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Mar 2026 $40M — SEC Form D
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Legal entity Deep Cogito Inc. SEC Form D
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Drishan AroraExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Deep Cogito is an AI research company working towards systems that improve their own reasoning. It has released open-weight Cogito models trained with a self-distillation method the team calls iterated distillation and amplification. The lab publishes benchmarks alongside each model release.

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82 portfolio companies: Justcircleit, Glasslake, Index Robotics and 79 more
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News

News Ventureburn 2 months ago
Deep Cogito Raises $43 Million To Build AI Models That Improve Themselves
Deep Cogito Raises $43 million to develop self-improving AI models and open-weight LLMs that get smarter after training.
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News SiliconANGLE 2 months ago
Deep Cogito raises $43M to develop self-improving AI models
Deep Cogito raises $43M to develop self-improving AI models - SiliconANGLE
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News Unite.AI 2 months ago
Deep Cogito Raises $43M Series A to Build the Post-Training Engine for Self-Improving AI
Deep Cogito has raised a $43 million Series A as the San Francisco AI lab looks to scale an increasingly important part of the artificial intelligence stack: what happens after a foundation model has already been pre-tra...
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News Venturebeat 1 year ago
Deep Cogito's 671B model redefines AI reasoning
Arora explains this as a difference between searching for a path versus already knowing roughly where the destination lies.
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News deepcogito.com 1 year ago
Introducing Cogito v2 Preview
From Inference-time Search to Self-Improvement.
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News SiliconANGLE 1 year ago
Deep Cogito releases open-source language models that outperform Llama
Deep Cogito releases open-source language models that outperform Llama - SiliconANGLE
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI
At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.
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News deepcogito.com 1 year ago
Introducing Cogito v1 Preview
A path to general superintelligence using IDA
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People

Drishan Arora
Executive Officer, Director
Eric Vishria
Director
Dhruv Malhotra
Director
Schuster Tanger
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$40M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2026 $40M Details