Devin maker Cognition raises over $2B at $48B valuation, nearly doubling its price tag in four months
Tech Funding News Abhinaya Prabhu ● Covered by 4 sources
Cognition just raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B four months ago. Its Devin coding agent is growing fast, but the compute bill could still bite hard.
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Cognition has pulled in $2 billion in a Series E round and, with it, doubled its price tag to $48 billion in just four months. That is a brutal kind of momentum. The startup behind the Devin autonomous coding agent was valued at $26 billion only four months earlier, so this was not a polite uptick. It was a leap.
Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the round, with support from returning backers Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, plus Benchmark, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock and Nvidia in the wider syndicate. Avenir said on X that it wrote its biggest check ever, and framed Cognition and chief executive Scott Wu as early believers in the shift from autocomplete to autonomous agents.
The money arrives alongside a much louder revenue story. Cognition says run-rate revenue climbed from $492 million in May to nearly $900 million now, helped by last year’s purchase of Windsurf, which brought a rival enterprise customer base into Devin’s orbit. On paper, the company is now valued at roughly 53 times run-rate revenue. That’s a rich number even by AI standards, and it puts Cognition above the multiple Cursor fetched before SpaceX bought it for $60 billion in August.
But the bill underneath the headline is the real tension. The Information reported that Cognition leases its Nvidia cluster rather than owning it, and that could push cash burn to $800 million this year on compute alone. The company is also training its own models on open-source foundations to reduce dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic, because in this market the GPU invoice can become the main character very quickly. Cognition says it is aiming for $4 billion to $5 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026. That target sounds impressive until you remember how many billion-dollar rounds this sector now needs just to stay upright.
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This is the AI coding market in one ugly snapshot: absurd valuations, faster revenue, and a compute bill waiting in the wings like a repo man. Investors keep calling it growth, but some of it looks more like very expensive rent on Nvidia’s machines. The real prize may not be the best coding agent; it may be the one that can survive its own electricity habit.
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