Cogent, an AI-driven cybersecurity company focused on automating vulnerability remediation, announced a $42 million Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with continued backing from Greylock Partners and Definition. Founders and executives from OpenAI, Abnormal Security, and Datadog also participated, bringing total funding to $53 million. Enrique Salem, former leader at Symantec, Rubrik, and Netskope, joins the Board of Directors.
Closing the Vulnerability Execution Gap
The company addresses a growing execution gap in vulnerability management. More than 48,000 new CVEs were published in the past year, a 162% increase over five years, while attacker response times continue to shrink due to AI-enabled exploitation. Discovery tools already exist; remediation remains manual, fragmented, and slow, often relying on spreadsheets and ad-hoc communication.
AI Agents for End-to-End Remediation
Cogent deploys AI agents to manage the full remediation lifecycle. The system investigates vulnerabilities within the context of each environment, identifies system owners, evaluates real-world risk, generates remediation steps, and verifies completion. All actions remain traceable, auditable, and governed by configurable approval controls. Customers report reducing exposure windows for critical risks by an average of 97%, with adoption across dozens of Fortune 1000 organizations in financial services, retail, higher education, and other sectors.
Experienced Team and Future Growth
The founding team brings experience from Abnormal Security and Coinbase, alongside security leaders from Zscaler and Wiz and AI talent from DeepMind, Databricks, Tesla, and Stripe, including researchers who contributed to transformer architectures behind major AI models. The new capital will expand AI and data platform development, accelerate go-to-market efforts, and grow the team, positioning Cogent to advance agentic cybersecurity solutions.