Cognosys
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Cognosys was a Vancouver, Canada-based AI agent development startup led by Homam Malkawi and Sully Omar. It built a web-based AI agent designed to simplify complex tasks through automation - optimizing workflows, enhancing decision-making, and supporting Google's PaLM, Cohere, and Anthropic's Claude models in a production environment.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and seed round
Cognosys was founded in 2023 and raised a $2 million seed round in May 2023, led by Google Ventures with participation from Untapped VC and angels including Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang (Cohere), Spencer Kimball (CockroachDB), and Yohei Nakajima (BabyAGI).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
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Founded in 2023; closed a $2 million seed round in May 2023 led by Google Ventures.
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Angel investors included Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and CTO Ivan Zhang, and CockroachDB CEO Spencer Kimball.
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No audited loss figure was publicly disclosed.