# Cogito Corporation

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/cogito-3

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Boston, US
- Website: www.cogitocorp.com/
- Total disclosed funding: $85M
- Latest round: Series C (Aug 20, 2019)
- Investors on record: 7

## About

Based in Massachusetts, US, and founded in 2007 by CEO Joshua Feast and Alex Pentland, Cogito Corporation, a.k.a. Cogito operates as a developer of a software platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help professionals improve their performance and customer sales calls. The firm’s platform assesses behavioral signals to provide live conversation coaching. In?October 2024,?Verint Systems, Inc. acquired Cogito Corporation from?Trog Hawley Capital, Romulus Capital, Salesforce Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Battery Ventures, Hearst Ventures, NYL Ventures, Lions Capital Partner, Safar Partners, Schechter Private Capital, and Telcom Ventures for USD 61.38 million.

The company’s product line includes Cogito Companion, an AI-enabled real-time assistance platform for contact center agents to manage conversations through in-call coaching and guidance; Cogito Teams, an AI-coaching application that features a real-time dashboard with insights into live conversations; Cogito Intelligence, an AI platform for customer sentiment monitoring and agent wellbeing monitoring; and more. Cogito also offers an artificial intelligence platform and behavioral models to interpret human communication and detect psychological states automatically. In addition, the firm’s call center AI solution delivers in-call behavioral guidance to agents and a real-time measure of customer perception for phone conversations.

## Funding rounds

- Series C, Aug 20, 2019, $19M — Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Salesforce Ventures, NYL Ventures
- Series C, Dec 5, 2018, $8M — Battery Ventures, Hearst Ventures
- Series C, Jul 23, 2018, $37M — OpenView, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Salesforce Ventures
- Series B, Nov 18, 2016, $15M — OpenView, Romulus Capital, Salesforce Ventures
- Series A, Nov 5, 2015, $5.5M — Romulus Capital, Salesforce Ventures

## Investors

- Romulus Capital — Series A, Series B
- Salesforce Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/salesforce-ventures) — Series A, Series B, Series C
- OpenView (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/openview) — Series B, Series C
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/goldman-sachs-asset-management) — Series C
- Battery Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/battery-ventures) — Series C
- Hearst Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hearst-ventures) — Series C
- NYL Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/nyl-ventures) — Series C