Startups walk into the arena with a deck and a dream. Cogent Security showed up like they’ve been quietly rewriting the operating manual for cybersecurity, while everyone else was still patching Monday’s mess with Wednesday’s wisdom.
Fresh out of stealth and already sitting on $11M in Series Seed from Greylock Partners (the same crew that incubated Palo Alto Networks, Abnormal Security, and backed Okta and Wiz), Cogent Security didn’t come to play. They came to fix the mess that vulnerability management has become, and to do it with something we haven’t seen before: an AI-native task force that acts like a battalion of elite operators for your security stack.
Let’s talk team, because this lineup reads like a who’s-who of people who’ve already battled this beast from the inside. CEO Vineet Edupuganti cut his teeth at Abnormal Security, Facebook, and New Relic, building systems that actually hold up under pressure. CTO Geng Sng is part engineer, part architect, part stablecoin whisperer, and all in on clean, scalable security infrastructure. And then there’s Thanos Baskous, VP of Engineering, who led core infra at Coinbase, modernized the backend, saved the company $15M a year, and still had time to win the Company Astronaut Award. That’s not a nickname, it’s an actual title.
Backed by Lockstep Ventures and strategic angels from OpenAI, Cogent’s not just raising money, they’re raising expectations. Their agents are already deployed inside Fortune 500, public companies, and high-profile universities, doing the dirty work no one else wants to touch: pulling CVEs out by the roots, cutting resolution time in half, and automating the kind of decisions that used to keep security teams chained to dashboards.
The tech hits hard: petabyte-scale ingestion, real-time intelligence, agentic AI that understands your org’s unique structure from day one. This isn’t some ML wrapper on legacy thinking. This is software that acts, adapts, and decides, like having your top engineer working every ticket, 24/7, without burning out or burning budget.
Eight months out of Greylock’s Edge program and already making moves most startups won’t see until their Series C. They’ve earned the war stories, skipped the buzzwords, and built what everyone else just talked about. Because Cogent doesn’t patch problems, they deploy solutions that never sleep.
