{"id":1028744,"date":"2026-08-14T07:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028744"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:16:17","slug":"ai-startup-cognition-in-new-funding-talks-at-40-billion-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/ai-startup-cognition-in-new-funding-talks-at-40-billion-value\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Cognition in new funding talks at $40 billion value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognition AI is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup\u2019s valuation by more than 50% to at least $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>Prospective investors are circling the company less than three months after the AI firm raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, the people said, asking to remain unidentified to talk about a private deal. The potential backers are seeking to secure a slice of a leading player in one of the industry\u2019s hottest spheres. The company\u2019s annualized revenue run rate is now approaching $1 billion, roughly double the figure the firm posted during its previous financing, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognition AI is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup\u2019s valuation by more than 50% to at least $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Prospective investors are circling the company less than three months after the AI firm raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, the people said, asking to remain unidentified to talk about a private deal. The potential backers are seeking to secure a slice of a leading player in one of the industry\u2019s hottest spheres. The company\u2019s annualized revenue run rate is now approaching $1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028770,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028744\/revisions\/1028770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}