Founder of a listed tool
Walden Yan
Co-founder and CPO, Cognition, named behind the Devin listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Walden builds
Devin C · 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 CPO, Cognition, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Scott Wu Co-founder and CEO, Cognition
- Steven Hao Co-founder and CTO, Cognition
Backed by
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 Diffusion
Questions
Who is Walden Yan?
Walden Yan co-founded Cognition with Scott Wu and Steven Hao in 2023 and is its chief product officer. Like his co-founders, he is a competitive programmer who won gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics.
What does Cognition AI, Inc. make?
Anchor 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.
Who has invested in Cognition AI, Inc.?
The 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.
How are Walden's tools graded?
Devin is graded C, 55.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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