Introducing Cogent Security

The First AI Taskforce for Vulnerability Management

Cogent Security is redefining how enterprises stay ahead of today’s relentless wave of vulnerabilities and exploits. We’re slashing remediation times, eliminating manual effort, and delivering real business impact, already protecting millions of assets across the Fortune 500 and beyond.

Today, we’re thrilled to launch out of stealth with $11 million in funding and the backing of world-class investors and advisors across security, enterprise software, and AI.

Vulnerability Management Is at a Breaking Point

For decades, identifying and fixing vulnerabilities has been a cornerstone of enterprise cybersecurity. But in today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, that cornerstone is cracking:

• Nearly 45,000 CVEs were published this year alone, 4x more than a decade ago¹

• Vulnerability exploitation is now the fastest growing cause of breaches globally per Verizon DBIR²

• Threat actors are moving faster than ever, cutting time-to-exploit in half thanks to generative AI³

Reinforcing these trends, high-profile incidents like Log4Shell have inflicted billions in damages, requiring multi-year remediation efforts. Meanwhile, most organizations are still relying on manual workflows, tribal knowledge, and endless back and forth between Security, Engineering, and IT.

Vulnerability management is no longer just inefficient, it’s unsustainable.

A New Paradigm for VM: AI-Powered, Human-Level Judgment at Scale

Our founding team understands these challenges intimately. Over the past decade, we’ve been on the front lines, tackling critical vulnerabilities in high-stakes security environments at organizations like Coinbase, Blackstone, and Abnormal AI. Through this process, we experienced the constant struggle between balancing risk mitigation and business continuity, and navigating slow, siloed, and manual workflows.

This lived experience is why we built Cogent’s AI Taskforce, the first-ever fleet of AI agents purpose-built for end-to-end vulnerability remediation.

Unlike legacy tools that toss findings over the wall, our AI agents reason like human experts. They deeply understand your organization, collaborate as a virtual team, and drive actions all the way through resolution.

Here’s how it works:

1. Understands Your Environment

Cogent's AI Taskforce continuously mines structured and unstructured data to build live, contextual models of your assets and risk surface.

2. Prioritizes What Matters

Modeled after real-world roles like VM Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers, our AI agents collaborate to:

• Derive ground truth context about assets and vulnerabilities

• Pinpoint top risks in real-time

• Generate personalized remediation strategies to map out who should do what by when

3. Drives to Resolution

Cogent's AI agents apply fixes directly or autonomously engage with downstream teams through the right channels. They operate with a nuanced understanding of business constraints like uptime or revenue risk, eliminating the need for constant intervention by Security.

All of this happens in seconds, at massive scale, powered by thousands of signals flowing through the Cogent AI Fabric.

Production Grade AI, With Clear ROI

This isn't just theoretical. Cogent is already protecting leading global organizations, from public financial institutions to top-tier universities and Fortune 500 leaders.

The results from these engagements have been staggering: increases in remediation throughput, large declines in mean time to remediate, and a substantial reduction in VM Analyst time spent on vulnerability triage and remediation workstreams.

“Cogent handles the most labor-intensive parts of vulnerability management. That means Security, Engineering, and IT teams get hundreds of hours back each week. At scale, that’s millions of dollars in productivity gains and measurable improvements in risk posture for a large organization.”

— Lucas Moody, CISO @ Alteryx

Building the Best Team in Cyber

The problem we are tackling is difficult and mission-critical. Cogent was born from the belief that modern security problems demand a new approach, and a world-class team to build it.

• Our founders previously helped scale Abnormal AI from a small startup to a $5B company, delivering cutting-edge behavioral AI solutions loved by thousands of security teams.

• Our technology is developed by the top software and AI engineers in Silicon Valley, who have built platforms, infrastructure, and domain-specific AI Agents at mega scale at companies such as Coinbase, Tesla, and Google Research.

• This technical prowess is amplified by the domain and workflow expertise of our in-house vulnerability management team, which has decades of combined experience building and managing VM programs for marquee clients at MSSPs like Guidepoint and Optiv and industry pioneers like Kenna and ZScaler.

We are incredibly grateful to be on this journey with a trusted set of investors and advisors. Our Seed round was led by Greylock Partners (backers of Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Wiz, and others). Our advisors and angel investors include former founders and executives from Tenable and Crowdstrike, ex-CISOs, and leading minds from companies like OpenAI.

The Road Ahead

Our progress to this point has been faster than we could have envisioned, and we have an exciting roadmap ahead.

If you are interested in supercharging your VM program, get started for free. And if you're excited by the idea of building Agentic AI from the ground up while making the digital world safer for everyone, we are hiring for all roles across R&D and GTM.