Past Founder
About the job
- Founded or co-founded a venture-backed startup and operated through its early stages, including building product, hiring a first team, managing a board, and making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information.
- Alumni of a top accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, or a similar program.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking ownership without direction.
- Own critical initiatives end-to-end, such as a new product area, customer segment, or go-to-market motion, and drive them from idea through execution.
- Work directly with the founding team to identify high-priority problems and decide how to solve them.
- Build processes, playbooks, and operational infrastructure to support Cogent's growth.
- Spend time with enterprise customers and their security teams, and bring those insights into product development and positioning.
- Hire and develop a team around the workstream as its scope grows.
- Founded or co-founded an AI-native company in cybersecurity or an adjacent domain, such as security infrastructure, compliance automation, cloud security, threat intelligence, or enterprise risk.
- Direct experience raising venture capital and navigating the fundraising lifecycle.
- Experience selling into or building for enterprise security teams.
- Background in product, engineering, or go-to-market at a high-growth startup beyond the candidate's own company.
- Familiarity with vulnerability management, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), or adjacent security tooling.
- Experience scaling a team beyond its first few hires and building processes to support that growth.
About the company
Cogent Security provides AI-driven vulnerability management for large organizations. Its core product is an agentic AI platform that automates the entire vulnerability lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, with autonomous agents that correlate data, contextualize assets and vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and generate remediation plans. It differentiates itself by offering end-to-end automation combined with governance and an auditable action trail, integrating with existing vulnerability management, ticketing, and collaboration tools. The goal is to expand enterprise deployments, accelerate product development, and deliver scalable, automated risk reduction for cyber defense.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$53M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 Zero Day Response finds exposures within minutes, before scanner signatures.
- February 2026 Series A raised $42 million, totaling $53 million for rapid enterprise expansion.
- Cogent cites dozens of Fortune 1000 customers, including Alteryx and CSC Generation.
What critics are saying
- CrowdStrike and Palo Alto shipped exposure-management automation in August 2026.
- Autonomous remediation creates one bad agentic action away from outage, data loss, or trust collapse.
- If VR-1 underperforms in production, Cogent becomes another pricey workflow wrapper.
What makes Cogent Security unique
- September 2026 VR-1 targets attack-path proofing, not single-vulnerability detection.
- Cogent’s harness enforces customer policy, audit logging, and controlled remediation actions.
- Founders from Abnormal Security, Coinbase, and Google DeepMind bring rare execution credibility.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays