Cognite

Cognite is an industrial software company that makes AI work for industry. The company helps asset-intensive enterprises liberate and contextualize data trapped across IT, OT, and engineering systems, turning fragmented plant-floor and operational information into a single, trusted foundation for AI. Its stated mission is to unify industrial data and empower everyone—from the shop floor to the top floor—with accessible, trustworthy, and contextualized data that accelerates the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries.

The company’s core product is Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), a data platform that consolidates real-time industrial data at scale and maps meaningful relationships between data points so that it is easy to explore, understand, and use. Cognite also offers Atlas AI agents, which help manufacturers move beyond pilot projects into scaled, real-time decision-making by connecting frontline workers, maintenance teams, and plant leadership around the same data. The technology stack spans big data, machine learning, hybrid AI, and 3D modeling.

Cognite’s customers operate in heavy-asset industries including oil and gas, power and utilities, renewable energy, manufacturing, and process industries. The company reports that customers such as OMV, Aker BP, and Celanese rely on Cognite to cut inspection time, boost uptime, and put trustworthy data into the hands of the connected worker. Cognite also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and frontline engineers who need access to industrial data to do their jobs.

Cognite was founded in 2016 to meet the demands of industrial digitalization. Within about four years of founding the company reported roughly 500 employees, including software developers, data scientists, designers, and 3D specialists, recruited from around the world and representing more than 50 nationalities across its global locations. The company has been backed by Accel, one of the world’s leading venture capital firms.

Today Cognite describes itself as the global leader in industrial AI and operates as a global industrial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. It maintains corporate locations in the United States and Norway, including an office at Oksenøyveien 10 in Lysaker, Oslo, and a U.S. address at 3200 Gracie Kiltz Ln, Ste 200, Austin, Texas. Its hiring spans engineering, finance, global revenue, legal, marketing, product, value delivery, and other functions across Europe, North America, India, Japan, and the Middle East.

The company frames its ambitions around a “moonshot”: to unlock $100B in customer value by 2035 and redefine how global industry works. Cognite positions its work at the intersection of AI and data with industrial ingenuity, aiming to help customers operate more sustainably, securely, and efficiently through digital transformation.

Cognite’s documented values are impact, ownership, and being relentless. The company says its employees strive to add value to their teams, company, and customers; embrace a culture of ownership that goes beyond comfort zones; and pursue innovation with determination and deliberation, treating setbacks as opportunities for growth. It also highlights collaborative workplaces, global teams sharing a common mission, and corporate social responsibility initiatives that let employees give back to the communities where they live and work.