Cogent Automates Vulnerability Management as AI Accelerates Threats

In 2024, more than 45,000 new software vulnerabilities were published - quadruple the number from just a decade ago. At the same time, threat actors, now equipped with generative AI, have cut the time between discovery and exploitation in half. For enterprise security teams, the math is brutal: more vulnerabilities, faster attacks, and the same limited capacity to respond.

Cogent Security, a San Francisco-based startup, launched publicly this week with $11 million in seed funding from Greylock Partners and a handful of strategic investors. The company thinks AI agents can close the widening gap in vulnerability management.

Building Proactive AI for Security

Cogent was founded by Vineet Edupuganti (CEO), Geng Sng (CTO), and Thanos Baskous (VP Engineering), all veterans of high-scale, security-sensitive environments like Coinbase, Blackstone, and Abnormal AI.

“The frameworks in use today still rely on human-driven processes: context gathering, coordination, risk scoring, that don’t scale to the modern threat landscape,” Edupuganti told Axios. “With AI, threat actors are moving faster than ever. Defenders need to do the same.”