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Cognite

HQ Lysaker, NorwayFounded 2016501-1000 employeesUpdated

Cognite is recognized for its ability to streamline data lifecycle management, diverse partner ecosystem, and strong implementation and customer success support.

Website

Funding5 rounds · ~$225M

Equity raised
~$225M
Debt, secondaries & grants
~$113M
Latest
~$113MSecondary · Feb 2, 2022
Last valuation
$1.50B?Basis not stated · Secondary · Feb 2, 2022
Cumulative raised$225M
Oct 27, 2020May 19, 2021
Valuation over time$1.50B · Feb 2, 2022
Valuation over timeReported valuation rose from $550M (Oct 27, 2020) to $1.50B (Feb 2, 2022) across 3 valued rounds. 3 without a stated pre/post basis.
Valuations by round
AnnouncedStageValuationBasis
Oct 27, 2020Series A$550MBasis not stated
May 19, 2021Series B$1.60BBasis not stated
Feb 2, 2022Secondary$1.50BBasis not stated
  • Secondary
    Valuation $1.50B?
    ~$113M
    Feb 2, 2022
  • Secondary
    Confirmed
    Undisclosed
    Feb 1, 2022
  • Series B
    Led by TCV
    Valuation $1.60B?
    Confirmed
    $150M
    May 19, 2021
  • Series A
    Led by Accel
    Valuation $550M?
    $75.0M
    Oct 27, 2020
  • Convertible
    Led by Aker ASA
    Speculative
    ~$200K
    2020

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems12

  • Asset RCAPreconfigured AI agent for assisting equipment root-cause analysis.
  • BlueprintPreconfigured AI application for connecting engineering diagrams with operational dashboards.
  • ChartsConfigurable industrial application in the Cognite Flows platform.
  • Cognite Atlas AILow-code software workbench for building AI agents using industrial data.
  • Cognite Data FusionIndustrial data platform for organizing operational information in a unified data model.
  • Cognite FlowsSoftware platform for building and running industrial workflows using data and AI tools.
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Newest unveiled first. Systems that belong to a government program link to the program page, where variants, costs and contracts are.

People
PersonRole
Fredrik Anfinsen · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder and Director of Product Development
Geir Engdahl · LinkedIn ↗Co Founder & CTO, AI
John Lervik · LinkedIn ↗Founder & Chief Strategy & Development Officer
John Markus LervikCo-founder and CEO
Girish Rishi · LinkedIn ↗CEO
Moe TanabianChief Product Officer
Trygve Olav RønningenChief operating officer

Sources20

Show all 20 sources and supporting evidence

Profile3

  1. 1

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “employee_range: 501-1000 (profile: 800)”
  2. 2

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "82c6c1d1-a6a1-48d1-b344-dbf03d25bcc7", "name": "Cognite"}”
  3. 3

    Owler · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “country: NO”

Systems7

  1. 4

    Cognite · Supports System

    “As a **field worker**, use InField to complete your tasks and capture measurements and observations when you work. As a **supervisor**, use InField to plan, schedule, and assign work activities.”
  2. 5

    Cognite · Supports System

    “With Maintain, you can visualize activities and all related data to find potential issues or opportunities, create detailed **campaign plans** for events like shutdowns and turnarounds, discover **opportunity scopes** and reduce isolation frequency and production loss, then monitor the progress of your activities, make adjustments, and **analyze maintenance trends** over time.[]()”
  3. 6

    Cognite · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website, System

    “Cognite is recognized for its ability to streamline data lifecycle management, diverse partner ecosystem, and strong implementation and customer success support.”
  4. 7

    Cognite · Supports System

    “Cognite Atlas AI™ is the only low-code industrial AI agents workbench that powers agents with AI-ready industrial data to automate your industrial workflows and accelerate business impact across the organization at scale like never before.”
  5. 8

    Cognite · Supports System

    “Cognite Data Fusion® brings deep industrial expertise into your operations to provide you with a unified, central data model of all your industrial data.”
  6. 9

    Cognite · Supports System

    “Cognite’s ready-to-use, configurable industrial applications, including Industrial Canvas, InField, Maintain, and Charts, for instant deployment of proven workflows.”
  7. 10

    Cognite · Supports System

    “## Work Package Generator Cut time to produce a complete Industrial Canvas work package from ~30 minutes (manual) to under 5 minutes.”

Funding8

  1. 11

    Cognite · Feb 2, 2022 · Supports Funding round

    “Saudi Aramco, Cognite’s long-time digitalization partner in the Middle East, acquired a 7.4% stake in Cognite”
  2. 12

    Reuters · Feb 2, 2022 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd

    “The price for the stake was "around 1 billion Norwegian crowns," or about $113 million”
  3. 13

    Cognite · Feb 1, 2022 · Supports Funding round · stage

    “Cognite, a global leader in industrial software innovation, announces today that Saudi Aramco, via its subsidiary Aramco Overseas Company B.V., has invested in Cognite by purchasing 100% of Aker BP's shares in the company.”
  4. 14

    Aker ASA · Jun 3, 2021 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “Aker announces that the transaction has been finalized and closed”
  5. 15

    Aker ASA · May 19, 2021 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd, Organization · ownership

    “Cognite has raised USD 150 million in a Series B investment by TCV”
  6. 16

    Cognite · May 19, 2021 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “Cognite, a global leader in industrial software innovation, announced today that it has signed an investment round of $150M with leading global growth equity firm TCV, valuing the company at $1.6B.”
  7. 17

    Nordic9 · Oct 27, 2020 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd

    “announced closing a series A round of $75 million”
  8. 18

    Multiples · Supports Funding round

    “Jun 2020 | Pre-seed”

People2

  1. 19

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url, Role

    “country: NO”
  2. 20

    LinkedIn · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Role

    “employee_range: 501-1000 (profile: 501-1,000 employees)”

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