Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Cogent Security has secured $42 million to fund product development, hiring, and enterprise deployment. The funding was led by Bain Capital Ventures and includes Greylock Partners, Definition, and angel investors from OpenAI, Abnormal Security, and Datadog.
Founded in 2024, Cogent Security was launched in July 2025 by CEO Vineet Edupuganti, CTO Geng Sng, and VP of Engineering Thanos Baskous and has a goal to revolutionize vulnerability management through autonomous AI agents.
Traditional vulnerability management tools create a backlog of unpatched vulnerabilities due to limited resources and overwhelm security teams with thousands of alerts. Cogent Security is trying to provide a solution with an agentic AI platform. The platform operates continuously and will elegantly identify, prioritise, and then obliterate (perhaps “remediate” or “defeat” is a better choice of words) vulnerabilities in enterprise environments.
It will also assess context, asset criticality, exploitable vulnerabilities, and business risk to determine weakness. It then takes automated actions to close security gaps faster. Cogent Security claims its technology is a departure from traditional, reactive security alerts and instead a next-generation, proactive, automated defense.
Competing in a Crowded Cybersecurity Market
Cogent Security is a new startup that is entering an already populated and competitive market that has established cybersecurity companies like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and SentinelOne. Unlike the competition that focuses on endpoint detection and network security, Cogent Security focuses on automation and vulnerability management.
Its platform allows all the components of a security stack to provide security solutions to enterprises without having to eliminate all other security tools. This feature is called interoperability. It allows the large and technologically advanced organizations to use the security solutions without making changes to the already established security infrastructure.
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Potential Market Impact and Expectations
Cogent Security went from being founded in 2024 to getting a major Series A Round in 2026, showing a clear need in the market for AI-driven platforms. This is a response to the growing sophistication of cyber threats.
As the gap between the complexity of cyber threats and the ability of organizations to deal with them widens, almost all organizations rely on automated technologies that use machine learning to handle cyber threats.
Analysts predict that venture capital interest in AI cybersecurity startups will continue due to the demand for these technologies. With the most recent funding, Cogent Security will be able to continue growing and expanding AI platforms that will allow it to operate in this new, highly competitive market.
