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NeoCognition Emerges With $40M Seed Round

2026-04-24
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, NeoCognition, a research lab developing self-learning AI agents, has announced its emergence from stealth with a $40 million seed funding round.
The oversubscribed round was co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners and others. Angel investors and founding advisors include Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, Ion Stoica, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks, A&E Investments, Salience Capital Partners, Nepenthe Capital, Frontiers Capital, and leading AI researchers like Dawn Song, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Luke Zettlemoyer, among others.

NeoCognition is the AI agent lab for specialized intelligence. Founded by leading AI researchers Yu Su, Xiang Deng, and Yu Gu, the company's mission is to expand access to expertise by developing AI agents that continuously learn to reach expert-level intelligence.
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