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Cogito

Acquired

Boston, US · Delaware corporation · 6 known investors

Cogito, now part of Verint, provides real-time AI coaching and monitoring solutions for contact centers to improve customer and employee experience. The platform delivers CX/EX scoring, real-time agent coaching, and automation bots to reduce handling time, increase sales, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Also known as Cogito Corp · Cogito Corporation

Founders & leadership

JF
Joshua FeastCo-founder
AAAli Azarbayejani
Ali AzarbayejaniCo-founder
DP
Dustin PedersonNamed on SEC filing
AP
Alex PentlandNamed on SEC filing
DK
David KleinNamed on SEC filing
CP
Charles PopkinNamed on SEC filing
KM
Kenneth MorseNamed on SEC filing

Board

KGKrishna Gupta
Krishna Guptain𝕏Board directorGeneral Partner at Romulus Capital

Investors · 6

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$159.1M disclosed across 10 rounds · 2014–2021

$42.3MraisedMar 2022 · 15 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Susan CarstensenDirector
  • David KleinDirector
  • Mark MidleDirector
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • John TincoffDirector
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$42.3M
Amount sold
$42.3M
Sales commissions
$877.5K
Placement agents
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
First sale
Nov 2021
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$20.7MraisedAug 2020 · 12 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • Mark MidleDirector
  • Scott MaxwellDirector
  • David KleinDirector
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$25M
Amount sold
$20.7M
Sales commissions
$90K
Placement agents
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
First sale
Aug 2020
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$19.5MraisedSep 2019 · 6 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Scott MaxwellDirector
  • David KleinDirector
  • Mark MidleDirector
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Dustin PedersonExecutive Officer
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$25M
Amount sold
$19.5M
First sale
Aug 2019
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$45MraisedNov 2018 · 15 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Dustin PedersonExecutive Officer
  • David KleinDirector
  • Scott MaxwellDirector
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • Mark MidleDirector
Offering amount
$45M
Amount sold
$45M
First sale
Jul 2018
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$5MraisedApr 2018 · 2 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
  • Dustin PedersonExecutive Officer
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • David KleinDirector
  • Scott MaxwellDirector
Offering amount
$5M
Amount sold
$5M
First sale
Apr 2018
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$4.1MraisedJan 2017 · 1 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • Scott MaxwellDirector
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Dustin PedersonExecutive Officer
  • David KleinDirector
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$4.1M
Amount sold
$4.1M
Proceeds to insiders
$870K
First sale
Dec 2016
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$15MraisedNov 2016 · 4 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • Dustin PedersonExecutive Officer
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$15M
Amount sold
$15M
First sale
Nov 2016
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$1MraisedMay 2016 · 1 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Krishna GuptaDirector
  • Joshua FeastExecutive Officer, Director
  • Ali AzarbayejaniExecutive Officer, Director
  • Dustin PedersonExecutive Officer
Offering amount
$1M
Amount sold
$1M
First sale
Apr 2016
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Cogito provides real-time artificial intelligence software for contact centers, focused on measuring and improving both customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) during live voice interactions. The company's technology produces a real-time score for CX and EX on every call and delivers in-the-moment, non-disruptive guidance to agents, including next-best-action suggestions intended to raise individual agent performance toward that of a team's strongest performers.

The offering is now delivered under the Verint brand as a set of bots: the CX/EX Scoring Bot, which measures the human experience on interactions to generate timely CX and EX data; the Coaching Bot, which provides real-time agent guidance aligned to business priorities with the stated aims of reducing average handle time, increasing revenue and improving customer satisfaction; and Agent Copilot Bots, each of which automates a specific contact center micro-workflow such as increasing sales, reducing after-call work or shortening knowledge search time. These capabilities sit within the Verint Open Platform, which unifies data and AI to support CX automation, deeper data analysis and customer self-service, and is designed so that customers can adopt individual capabilities and scale incrementally.

Business model

Enterprise software sold to contact center operators, with sales handled through demo requests and a direct sales team; the products are distributed as part of the Verint Open Platform.

Traction

Publicly cited customer outcomes include a telecommunications company reporting $79 million in benefits along with a 30-second reduction in call duration and higher sales using the Coaching Bot, and a healthcare plan provider reporting a 16% increase in Net Promoter Score from interventions based on real-time CX measurement.

Latest developments

Cogito is now part of Verint, and its real-time coaching and CX/EX measurement products are marketed under Verint branding within the Verint Open Platform.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Operates in the contact center AI and customer experience automation market as part of Verint's product portfolio.

Technology

Proprietary AI models, described as going beyond generative AI toward agentic AI, that analyze live voice interactions to score customer and employee experience and to generate real-time agent guidance and task-specific automation bots.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise engagement via demo requests and contact-sales forms, positioned alongside and integrated with Verint's broader platform capabilities.

Contact center organizations and their agents, supervisors and CX teams; referenced customer examples include a telecommunications provider and a healthcare plan provider.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Customer-reported benefits (telco, Verint Coaching Bot)Jan 2025$79M
NPS increase (healthcare plan provider)Jan 202516%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Non-dilutive funding · 3 SBIR/STTR awards

Federal grants — no equity taken
AgencyPhaseYearAmount
National Institutes of Health (NIH)National Institutes of HealthPhase II2015$1.5M
National Institutes of Health (NIH)National Institutes of HealthPhase II2014$1.8M
National Institutes of Health (NIH)National Institutes of HealthPhase I2013$336.8K

Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
Cogito becomes part of Verint

Cogito's real-time AI coaching and CX/EX monitoring capabilities are offered as part of Verint, with the products branded as Verint CX/EX Scoring Bot, Verint Coaching Bot and Verint Agent Copilot Bots.

source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
CogitoDelaware

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Cogito do?
Cogito, now part of Verint, delivers real-time AI coaching and CX/EX scoring for contact center agents.
Who founded Cogito?
Cogito was founded by Joshua Feast, Ali Azarbayejani.
Who are Cogito's investors?
Cogito's investors include Beyond Capital, Kube VC, OpenView Venture Partners, Ossian Capital, REMUS Capital, Safar Partners.
How much funding has Cogito raised?
Cogito has disclosed $159.1M raised across 10 rounds.
Where is Cogito headquartered?
Cogito is headquartered in Boston, US.