Cognite is a Norwegian industrial software company that builds data and AI infrastructure for asset-heavy industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, power, and renewables. Founded in 2016 as a spinoff of Aker ASA, the company is headquartered in Lysaker, Norway, with offices across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia. Its flagship product, Cognite Data Fusion, contextualizes industrial data from sensors, engineering systems, 3D models, and documents into a queryable knowledge graph that AI agents and applications can build on.
In 2024 and 2025 Cognite shifted heavily toward industrial agents and generative AI, releasing Cognite Atlas AI and a suite of agentic tools designed to give field operators, engineers, and data scientists natural-language access to plant and asset data. The platform is used by customers including Aker BP, Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Celanese to reduce downtime, optimize production, and accelerate digital transformation programs.
Cognite has raised more than $225 million across multiple rounds, with major backing from Aker, Accel KKR, TCV, and others. Aker ASA remains a strategic shareholder and anchor customer. In 2025 the company reported approximately $117 million in revenue with a global headcount of around 795 employees, positioning it as one of the largest dedicated industrial AI vendors outside the hyperscalers.
The company competes with offerings from AVEVA, Palantir Foundry, and the industrial cloud arms of AWS, Azure, and Google, but differentiates on purpose-built industrial data modelling, deep integration with engineering tools, and a heavy-industry-first agent strategy.