Cogna 🇬🇧
AI-native applications enhancing critical workflows in physical industries such as asset management, dispatch, and compliance.
About Cogna
Cogna develops AI-native applications designed to enhance critical workflows in physical industries, focusing on areas such as asset management, dispatch, and compliance. The technology leverages contextual understanding of operational rules and expert knowledge to streamline processes, reduce manual tasks, and facilitate rapid deployment of solutions.
Cogna is a UK-based company founded in 2023, now around 98 people. It has raised $21.8M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by Ben Peters (Co-Founder & CEO; repeat founder; previously Five AI, NXP Semiconductors; University of Warwick), Lars Mennen (Co-Founder; previously Alpha1Education, CodePoKE; University of Cambridge).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Series A · Fintech (84 funds), Series A · Healthcare & Wellbeing (54 funds), Series A · DeepTech (53 funds).
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Series A · Apr 2026
- Amadeus Capital Partners — Amadeus Capital Partners caters to the technology sector with seed, early, and later stage venture, and private equity investments. · cheques £1M – £15M
- Hoxton Ventures — Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company. · cheques £250k – £5M
- Notion Capital — Notion Capital is a London-based European venture and growth investor in business software and fintech. · cheques £50k – £5M
- Octopus Ventures — Octopus is a multi stage European venture capital investor specializing in health, fintech, deep tech, B2B software and consumer. · cheques £100k – £15M