NeoCognition
LLM & Generative AI · AI Agents
4open roles
$40Mlatest round · Seed · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
50+team · employees, estimated range
Btruth index, 75 of 100
Overview
NeoCognition is an AI research lab focused on making LLM agents reliable, grounded and accessible to users, developers and enterprises. Its technical staff work on agent research and platform engineering for specialized intelligence. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 4 open roles at NeoCognition. NeoCognition is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. The latest round is Seed of $40M, announced in 2026.
- Open roles
- 4Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 12, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $40MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Seed · $40M · Apr 21, 2026Press report · techcrunch.com
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 3 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing May 28, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 34Named in its job postings
How NeoCognition hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
NeoCognition scores B 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, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
$40M
1 round on record
Latest round
$40M
Seed · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · hiring slowed
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
Apr 21
Raised a round Seed $40M · TechCrunch
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Apr 2026 | $40M | — | TechCrunch |
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Jobs
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≈ $196k – $389k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Palo Alto
Python
Fine-tuning
RLHF
JAX
Function Calling
AI Agents
Llama
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Post-training
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Machine Learning
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Visa sponsorship
3
H-1B filings in 12 months
$163k
Median offered salary
4
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer and information research scientists
3
In the register as NeoCognition Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
Sierra 
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US Department of Labor · latest filing May 28, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
AI/ML
75% ▼
Early Careers
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$40M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $40M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at NeoCognition over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
93/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
FastAPI
Cloud & platforms
AWS
GCP
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
AI & ML
LLM
Llama
Mistral
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News
NeoCognition: $40 Million Raised For Specialized AI Agent Platform Advancing Expert Intelligence
NeoCognition, a research lab focused on building self-learning AI agents, has emerged from stealth with a $40 million seed funding round to advance specialized intelligence and expert-level automation. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Cambium Capita
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NeoCognition获种子轮投资_腾讯新闻
2026年4月22日美国AI智能体实验室NeoCognition宣布完成种子轮融资本轮融资由Cambium Capital Partners、Vista Equity Partners及Walden Catalyst Ventures联合投资此次融资将主要用于加速NeoCognition在自主构建
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人工智能研究实验室 NeoCognition 获 4000 万美元种子轮融资打造类人学习智能体
投资者正积极招揽人工智能研究人才创办初创企业致力于研发更可靠、更高效的人工智能技术俄亥俄州立大学教授、人工智能智能体实验室负责人苏煜表示他最初曾抗拒风险投资机构将他的成果商业化直到去年他看到基础模型的技术突破有望让智能体实现真正的...
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NeoCognition获4000万美元种子轮融资致力于打造像人类一样学习的智能体_腾讯新闻
风险投资人正积极寻求与AI研究人员合作希望他们能创办企业推动AI变得更加可靠、高效 俄亥俄州立大学教授、AI智能体实验室负责人苏宇表示他起初对风投机构推动他将研究商业化的压力持抵触....
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NeoCognition's $40M bet on self-learning AI agents
NeoCognition raises $40M from Cambium Capital, Walden Catalyst, Vista, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Databricks to build self-learning AI agents for enterprise.
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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Palo Alto
Palo Alto
United States
HQ
4 open roles 75% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Early Careers
How to cite this page
Alion, "NeoCognition: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/neocognition
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