Cogent Security has raised a $42 million Series A just six months after launch. Their bet? That AI agents can finally fix one of cybersecurity’s most persistent bottlenecks: the grind between detecting software vulnerabilities and actually remediating them. The round, led by Bain Capital Ventures with Greylock and Definition participating, brings total funding to $53 million.
For Bain partner and former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem who led the round, this is the culmination of a several-year courtship of founder and CEO Vineet Edupuganti. “We’ve known him from pre‑founding the company,” Salem told Fortune. “This wasn’t necessarily his first starting idea, but they’ve proven an ability to deliver against what we’re working on.”
