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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
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Fresh money
7 months since the last round · not hiring
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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
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| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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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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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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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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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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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Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI
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Drishan Arora
Executive Officer, Director

Eric Vishria
Director

Dhruv Malhotra
Director

Schuster Tanger
Director
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Financials
Total raised
$40M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
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| Round | Announced | Amount | |
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| Series A | 2026 | $40M | Details |






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