Cognition Raises Over $2 Billion at $48 Billion Valuation as Devin's Revenue Nears $900 Million
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Extends an already-reported rapid valuation step-up with new revenue, product, and enterprise-partnership detail; the $2B/$48B raise clears the capital-cycle threshold, giving it segment-level weight for AI coding-agent investors.
Cognition Raises Over $2 Billion at $48 Billion Valuation as Devin's Revenue Nears $900 Million
Cognition, maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin, closed a Series E of more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. New investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the round, joined by existing backers Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, alongside a broad investor group spanning Benchmark, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, and T. Rowe Price. Cognition said Devin's annualized revenue grew from $492 million in May to roughly $900 million. The company also launched Auto-Triage for incident investigation, Security Swarm for vulnerability triage, and Automations, letting Devin act on Slack, GitHub, or Linear events without a prompt.
The raise extends a valuation run already in our coverage — Cognition roughly doubled from a $26 billion mark four months earlier — with Andreessen Horowitz committing capital days after facilitating Cursor's SpaceX-adjacent sale, making it a backer of two competing autonomous-coding bets at once. Per the AI Market Watch index, name-matched news volume on Cognition has risen to 60 items in the past 90 days versus 43 prior (coverage limited to pipeline-ingested sources), tracking Devin's shift from coding assistant to a sandboxed agent operating shell, editor, and browser with persistent memory. The new triage and security features push it beyond writing code into operations work usually owned by SRE and AppSec teams.
The more durable signal for builders and investors is the enterprise deployment detail, not the multiple: Fiserv is using Devin for core-banking modernization, and LTM is deploying it to lift known-vulnerability remediation coverage from about 60% to 80% for financial-services clients. Named, scoped operational metrics in regulated industries are harder to dismiss as pilot theater than generic enterprise-AI claims, and give later-round investors a revenue-quality check against a valuation that has nearly doubled twice this year.
