NeoCognition Raises $40M Seed for Self-Learning AI Agents — Intel CEO and Databricks Co-Founder Back the Round

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NeoCognition emerged from stealth with a $40M seed co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, backed by Vista Equity Partners and angels including Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica. The startup builds self-learning agents that continuously improve from task execution — a direct challenge to the fine-tuning and RAG approaches used by most enterprise AI tools. A $40M seed for a stealth-mode agent infrastructure play signals that investor conviction in agentic architecture is at peak levels.