Cognigy

Düsseldorf, Germany Artificial Intelligence Acquired

Cognigy is an enterprise-grade conversational AI and contact center automation platform that enables organizations to deploy intelligent digital agents for customer service across voice and digital channels. The company leverages generative AI, real-time memory, and integrated tools to deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences while handling complex, multi-step workflows. Cognigy serves enterprise customers including Lufthansa Group, Bosch, BioNTech, and Toyota.

Acquired

Cognigy has been acquired

Acquired by NICE September 8, 2025 $955M

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2016

Employees

300–330

Total Funding

$166.62M

5 rounds

Funding

Total raised $166.62M across 5 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series C

Date

June 11, 2024

Amount

$100M

Valuation

Lead Investors

Eurazeo
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
June 11, 2024 Series C $100M Eurazeo
March 23, 2022 Series B Extension $15M DTCP
June 2, 2021 Series B $44M Insight Partners

Leadership

  • Philipp Heltewig

    Chief AI Officer (post-acquisition) / CEO & Co-Founder (pre-acquisition)

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  • Sascha Poggemann

    Co-Founder

  • Benjamin Mayr

    Co-Founder

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

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  • Genesys

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  • Freshworks

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  • Salesforce Service Cloud

    Customer service and CRM platform with Einstein AI for enterprise support automation

  • Amazon Connect

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  • Five9

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