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About Cognida
We stand in the gap between frontier AI and the enterprise.
The labs are pushing the frontier. Enterprises have to run on it. Our job is to close the distance, and stay until it works in production.
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our story
We started out making AI accessible. Now we make it run the business.
Cognida began in Hyderabad at the end of 2021 with one belief: AI shouldn’t be reserved for the few. We built Zunō, delivered AI and analytics for enterprises, and grew fast across the US and India.
Then frontier models changed the problem. The hard part is no longer building a model. It’s running AI inside the enterprise, with the context, controls and accountability the business depends on. So that’s where we went.
72
Customers globally
85+
AI solutions in production
7
Fortune 500 companies
11
Global 2000 companies
22
PE portfolio companies
milestones
The story so far
Dec 2021
Cognida is born
The idea, the plan, the name, and a first office in Hyderabad.
H2 2022
Silicon Valley office
105 people and 11 clients, ahead of plan for the year
JAN 2025
Series A
$15M led by Nexus Venture Partners.
H1 2022
Seed round and Chicago
First clients and 50 people. Zunō.predict launches.
2023
Zunō grows up
Zunō.synth and Zunō.Lens launch. 200+ people, recognised by Qlik, Gartner and Forbes.
Aug 2026
Cognida acquires Automate
An enterprise AI platform for accounting and operations joins Cognida.
COGNIDA + AUTOMATE
AI-native accounting and operations, now part of Cognida.
Automate applies AI to high-accountability work across quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay, from ASC 606 revenue accounting and contract review to invoice processing and PO matching. It continues as a distinct product, with its full team now part of Cognida.
Millions
Of business documents processed in auditable workflows
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3 years
Working together before the acquisition
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ERP + CRM
Integrated with the systems finance teams already run on
what we value
How we show up, every day.
The habits we hire for, and the ones we hold each other to.
Ship to production.
Pilots are steps, not outcomes. We measure ourselves by what runs in the business.
Say the hard thing.
If something isn't worth building, we say so early, and plainly.
Stay at the frontier.
We build alongside the labs, so our clients get what’s next, not what’s familiar.
Own the outcome.
The people who build it stay to run it, measure it and make it better.
where we are
One global team
Headquarters
Cognida, Inc, 440 N. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
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Hyderabad
4th Floor, Mahaveer Gateway ORR-Nanakramguda Junction, Hyderabad 500032
United States of America
111 Barclay Blvd. Suite 318, Lincolnshire, IL 60069
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Bengaluru
BHIVE Platinum Address Maker Campus Indiranagar, North, Old Madras Road, Halasuru, Hoysala Nagar, Bengaluru 560008.
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