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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO, Cognition.\n\nSteven Hao co-founded Cognition with Scott Wu and Walden Yan in 2023 and is its CTO. Like his co-founders, he is a competitive programmer who won gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics.\n\n## What Steven builds\n\n- [Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md), graded C, 55.7/100, in Agent harnesses. Devin is Cognition's hosted coding agent. It works in its own cloud virtual machine to plan, edit code, run commands and open pull requests. Outside agents start and steer sessions through a REST API and a remote MCP server. Co-founder and CTO, Cognition, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Scott Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-wu/), Co-founder and CEO, Cognition\n- [Walden Yan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/walden-yan/), Co-founder and CPO, Cognition\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Founders Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-fund/)\n- [Lux Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lux-capital/)\n- [8VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/8vc/)\n- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Accel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/accel/)\n- [Avenir](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/avenir/)\n- [Neo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neo/)\n- [Elad Gil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elad-gil/)\n- [Definition Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/definition-capital/)\n- [Swish VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/swish-vc/)\n- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital-ventures/)\n- [Hanabi Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hanabi-capital/)\n- [D1 Capital Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d1-capital-partners/)\n- [Alpha Wave](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alpha-wave/)\n- [Positive Sum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/positive-sum/)\n- [Vitruvian Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vitruvian-partners/)\n- [Conversion Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conversion-capital/)\n- [137 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/137-ventures/)\n- [Soma Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/soma-capital/)\n- [Omri Casspi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/omri-casspi/)\n- [Ribbit Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ribbit-capital/)\n- [Atreides Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/atreides-management/)\n- [Layer Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/layer-global/)\n- [Benchmark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/benchmark/)\n- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bessemer-venture-partners/)\n- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)\n- [Greylock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greylock/)\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [Altimeter Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altimeter-capital/)\n- [BOND](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/)\n- [Meritech Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meritech-capital/)\n- [Valor Equity Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/valor-equity-partners/)\n- [T. Rowe Price](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/t-rowe-price/)\n- [DST Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dst-global/)\n- [HOF Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hof-capital/)\n- [BoxGroup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/boxgroup/)\n- [Battery Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/battery-ventures/)\n- [Stripes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stripes/)\n- [Journey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/journey/)\n- [A* Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/a-capital/)\n- [Alkeon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alkeon-capital/)\n- [Diffusion](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/diffusion/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Steven Hao?\n\nSteven Hao co-founded Cognition with Scott Wu and Walden Yan in 2023 and is its CTO. Like his co-founders, he is a competitive programmer who won gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics.\n\n### What does Cognition AI, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Devin from Cognition AI, Inc.. Devin is Cognition's hosted coding agent. It works in its own cloud virtual machine to plan, edit code, run commands and open pull requests. Outside agents start and steer sessions through a REST API and a remote MCP server.\n\n### Who has invested in Cognition AI, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Founders Fund, Lux Capital, 8VC, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Avenir, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, Swish VC, Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Alpha Wave, Positive Sum, Vitruvian Partners, Conversion Capital, 137 Ventures, Soma Capital, Omri Casspi, Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management, Layer Global, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Altimeter Capital, BOND, Meritech Capital, Valor Equity Partners, T. Rowe Price, DST Global, HOF Capital, BoxGroup, Battery Ventures, Stripes, Journey, A* Capital, Alkeon Capital and Diffusion.\n\n### How are Steven's tools graded?\n\nDevin is graded C, 55.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://devin.ai/\n- https://cognition.com/about\n- https://cognition.com/team-spotlights\n- https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition_AI\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wu\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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