Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
London, United Kingdom
Countries of investment
- United Kingdom
Investment stages
- Pre-seed
- seed
- Series A
Industries
- AI
- Fintech
- Health Tech
About
Cognition is a venture capital firm founded by former CrowdStrike executives, focused on AI driven cybersecurity and infrastructure. Headquartered in the United States with a London presence, it targets seed and Series A rounds, deploying capital and operator expertise to help technical founders build category defending security platforms for the age of AI agents.
Cognition is a venture capital firm founded by former CrowdStrike executives, focused on AI driven cybersecurity and infrastructure. Headquartered in the United States with a London presence, it targets seed and Series A rounds, deploying capital and operator expertise to help technical founders build category defending security platforms for the age of AI agents.
Investment Thesis
Cognition’s investment thesis is to partner with AI leaders to dominate large cyber and infrastructure markets, backing cybersecurity platforms built for the agentic AI era and the new attack surfaces created by autonomous systems. The firm writes high conviction seed and Series A checks into companies that combine deep technical advantage with scalable distribution in cloud, infrastructure, and networking.
Manager's Experience
Co-founded by Scott Wu (CEO), a former Thiel Fellow and multi-time IOI Gold Medalist who built Lunchclub ($100M+ valuation); Walden Yan (Co-Founder), former Harvard Computer Science researcher with a background in competitive math and ML infrastructure; and Steven Hao (Co-Founder), former IOI Gold Medalist and ex-Scale AI lead engineer specializing in LLM evaluation and dataset engineering.
Team
Scott Wu - Co-Founder & CEO
Walden Yan - Co-Founder
Steven Hao - Co-Founder