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Cognida
Embedded AI teams that build enterprise agents and data foundations, plus post-training work for AI labs
Cognida works with enterprises on AI strategy, fine-tuned models, agents and governed data foundations, with teams that stay to run systems in production. It also runs post-training, evaluation and red-teaming work for AI labs. Its site shows anonymised case studies across manufacturing, healthcare and semiconductors and lists Anthropic, Google Cloud and Databricks as partners.
- Type of firm
- Forward-deployed engineering
- Known for
- Forward-deployed AI for enterprises and AI labs
- Based in
- Sunnyvale, United States
- Founded
- 2021
- Employees
- 51 to 200
- Origin
- Started as an AI or data firm
- Funding
- Series A
- Total raised
- $15M
- Ownership
- VC-backed
- Status
- Active
- Generalist or specialist
- Generalist
- Built on
- Anthropic, Google Cloud, Databricks
- Own product
- Yes: Zunō accelerator; Codien test tool
- Delivery model
- Embedded team, Runs it after launch, Advice and strategy
- Website
- cognida.ai
Funding and deals
- 2025-02: Series A, $15M, led by Nexus Venture Partners
Investors
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