Cosine - Your AI Co-developer Ask complex coding questions, get explanations about features and plan new code just by asking our AI in plain English TLDR: Cosine is an AI knowledge engine that understands your codebase better than you do, currently available in the browser, and as a VS Code extension. It supports 50+ coding languages, allowing developers to ask any question about their codebase, get explanations about any feature and get suggestions about how to write new code. Try it out on an open source repo without installation on our website or install our VS Code extension!
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $3M
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Multimodal... | multimodal... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.08.2024 | - | $2.5M | - |
| 31.10.2022 | Pre-Seed | $500K | - |
Mentions in press and media 16
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.06.2026 | NEURA Robotics secures up to $1.4B, Bending Spoons files for US IPO, and UK PM unveils £400M chip plan | This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €2.8 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. We also released our monthly report for May with all the critical fundin... |
| 09.06.2026 | Britain Forges AI Sovereignty: A National Tech Reckoning | Britain launches an assertive AI strategy. The nation invests £400 million in AI chips and compute infrastructure. It aims for digital independence. The first sovereign AI model, Lumen Sovereign, gains backing from major corporations. New p... |
| 08.06.2026 | Starmer: Britain must ‘not stick its head in the sand’ on AI | Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain must not “stick its head in the sand” on artificial intelligence, with the technology set to fundamentally reshape the UK economy. The Prime Minister used his speech at London Tech Week to unveil a major so... |
| 08.06.2026 | Cosine secures industry backing for Britain’s first sovereign frontier model | Cosine, the British AI company selected by the UK Government as part of its Sovereign AI initiative, today announced that it has brought together a coalition of leading UK institutions to co-design Lumen Sovereign, which it describes as Bri... |
| 17.04.2026 | Cosine goes from benchmark leader to cornerstone of UK sovereign AI strategy | The UK government has selected Cosine, the British AI company whose models have outperformed OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepSeek on independent coding benchmarks for two consecutive years, as one of the first partners in its newly laun... |
| 09.09.2024 | Gru.ai Ranks First in OpenAI's Latest SWE-Bench Verified Evaluation | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On 3rd September, Gru.ai ranked first with a high score of 45.2% in the latest data released by SWE-Bench Verified Evaluation, the authoritative standard for AI model evaluation. The SWE-Bench Ve... |
| 03.09.2024 | DGDV Investee Cosine records highest score ever on SWE-Bench, which evaluates software engineering capabilities of AI models – Announces partnership with OpenAI | - |
| 13.08.2024 | Cosine's Genie: The New Face of AI Development | In the bustling world of artificial intelligence, a new player is making waves. Cosine, a startup with roots in both San Francisco and London, has recently secured $2.5 million in seed funding. This financial boost is aimed at refining its ... |
| 12.08.2024 | London-based Cosine raises €2.2 million to deliver autonomous AI software developers | Based between San Francisco and London, Cosine, a human reasoning lab building artificial general developers, raised a €2.2 million round led by US venture firms Uphonest and SOMA Capital, with participation from Lakestar, Focal, amongst ot... |
| 12.08.2024 | Cosine raises $2.5M for its ‘uncannily human’ AI coding assistant Genie Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide f... | Cosine, an artificial intelligence startup that’s focused on mimicking human reasoning, said today it has closed on a $2.5 million seed funding round to finance the development of its cutting-edge AI software developer. Today’s round was le... |
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