Funding
Deep Cogito raises $43 million to keep pushing self-improving open models
The Series A, led by TQ Ventures with Zscaler joining as both investor and customer, brings the post-training startup's total funding past $56 million.
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The short version
- Deep Cogito raised a $43 million Series A led by TQ Ventures, with Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons and Zscaler participating.
- Total funding to date exceeds $56 million; the company was founded in 2024 by former Google AI Search engineers Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malrana.
- The startup's post-training engine underlies its open-weight Cogito model family, ranging from 3 billion to more than 600 billion parameters.
- Zscaler, one of the round's investors, is also a customer using the platform to build custom models on its own proprietary data.
The Series A, led by TQ Ventures with Zscaler joining as both investor and customer, brings the post-training startup's total funding past $56 million.