NeoCognition, an AI research lab, has closed a $40 million seed funding round, led by Cambium Capital and others.

According to TechCrunch, AI research lab NeoCognition has announced a $40 million seed funding round, co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners and others. Founded by Professor Yu Su of The Ohio State University and others, the company’s core focus is enabling AI agents to build environment-specific “world models” through real-world operational experience—rather than relying solely on general pre-training—to improve task execution reliability. NeoCognition currently targets the enterprise market and plans to offer embeddable AI agent systems for SaaS companies.