In today’s AI-driven threat environment, attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever before, leaving vulnerability management teams struggling to keep pace and enterprises exposed.
Cogent Security tackles this critical issue by reimagining vulnerability management — one of cybersecurity’s largest markets — with a bold premise: security teams need autonomous AI agents capable of thinking, analyzing, and acting independently, much like expert human security professionals.
We’re excited to announce Cogent Security, a company initiated through Greylock Edge and backed by an $11M Series Seed financing led by Greylock Partners. Cogent’s AI taskforce autonomously handles the full vulnerability management lifecycle — identifying threats, prioritizing critical risks, and executing remediation, all with minimal human oversight. In just eight months since beginning development, Cogent is already operational at major enterprises, securing millions of assets across Fortune 500 organizations.
The sheer volume of vulnerabilities—over 45,000 CVEs published in the past year—and the accelerated pace of exploits driven by AI have overwhelmed traditional vulnerability management solutions with excessive alerts, lacking in context or actionable guidance. Cogent’s agentic AI platform proactively analyzes vulnerabilities, accurately prioritizes genuine threats, and autonomously resolves them. Cogent’s AI agents work 24/7 around the clock, remediating vulnerabilities more than twice as fast and reducing overall vulnerability management efforts by 50%.
The Cogent founding team is well known to us at Greylock and a distinctive combination of AI, security and infrastructure expertise. Vineet Edupuganti (CEO) and Geng Sng (CTO) were pivotal in scaling Abnormal AI from its earliest days to a market-leading security company. Vineet quickly progressed from a machine learning engineer to product leader, and Geng was a key technical lead and architect. Thanos Baskous (VP Engineering) brings infrastructure and security engineering expertise from his roles leading Infrastructure at Coinbase and as Chief Architect of Blackstone. Since launching at Greylock’s offices, Cogent has assembled top-tier talent from Google, Stripe, Tesla, and other leading organizations. Learn about open positions here.
Greylock has a special history of incubating and partnering with outlier entrepreneurs in markets where we have deep domain expertise, including companies like Palo Alto Networks, Workday, Abnormal AI, Sumo Logic, TellApart, and Obsidian Security. Cogent, with its combination of an exceptional team, massive market opportunity, and transformative product vision, continues this tradition.
We’re thrilled and privileged to back the Cogent team and look forward to partnering closely with them as they build the industry’s leading agentic AI for vulnerability management platform.
