Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorth watchingCognitiv
Advertising decisions can use continuously learned behavioral and contextual signals instead of fixed audience segments and manually tuned rules.
Company snapshot
- Stage
- Unknown
- Status
- published
- Updated
- Nov 8, 2026
- Views
- Category
- Media, Ads & Creative AI
- Website
- cognitiv.ai
What they're building
Advertising decisions can use continuously learned behavioral and contextual signals instead of fixed audience segments and manually tuned rules. Cognitiv uses deep learning to predict consumer behavior and optimize advertising, combining programmatic media buying, campaign-specific algorithms, and contextual understanding across channels.
Founders
Jeremy Fain
Co-founder
Marc Hudacsko
Co-founder
Aaron Andalman
Co-founder
Foundation model usage
Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.
- Inferred architecture
- Consumer inference, Multimodal processing, Embeddings & semantic search
- Estimated model demand
- Very high intensity
NYC footprint
- NYC office
- 215 Park Avenue South, Floor 16, New York, NY 10003
Funding
Public funding details are not disclosed yet.
Sources & location evidence
Open research desk ↗Profile source review: 2026-11-03. New to the live 106-company baseline. Official About names Jeremy Fain, Marc Hudacsko, and Aaron Andalman as cofounders; homepage explains proprietary deep-learning advertising platform, DSP, curation, and contextual models. Official Contact lists current New York office at 215 Park Avenue South, Floor16, corroborated by 2026 SEC rent roll. Financing stage and amounts were not verified from primary disclosures and remain unknown. Do not confuse Cognitiv with similarly named Cognition or Cognizant. Blurb synthesized; original product label: 'Deep Learning Advertising Platform.'
- https://www.cognitiv.ai/ ↗
- https://www.cognitiv.ai/about-us ↗
- https://www.cognitiv.ai/contact ↗
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2121298/000153949726001202/n5850_x1-premktts.htm ↗
Manhattan · verified office
215 Park Avenue South, Floor 16, New York, NY 10003. Current company Contact page explicitly lists this business location alongside other office cities. SEC rent roll independently identifies Cognitiv as Stellar Health's 16th-floor subtenant through January 31, 2027. Near-term lease expiry is an evidence caveat; a new location should not be inferred. No global-HQ or precise-neighborhood claim is made. Company page has no visible publication date.
Cognitiv - Contact / New York ↗Source checked 2026-11-03
Notes
Cognitiv is tagged worth watching based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.
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