Cognigy
Acquired
Acquired by NiCE
Enterprise conversational and agentic AI platform for customer service automation; acquired by NiCE in 2025.
Cognigy provides customer-service AI agents for voice, chat and messaging, with Knowledge AI, agent copilot, contact-center integrations, voice connectivity and agentic handoff/collaboration across AI and human agents.
Positioning
AI-first CX platform for customer-service AI agents
Key facts
- HQ location
- Plano, TX, USA / Düsseldorf, Germany
- Founded
- 2016
- Employee range
- 501-1000 (501-1000)
- Funding stage
- Series C Plus
- Company type
- Unknown (Acquired (NiCE))
- Pricing model
- Subscription (Enterprise SaaS subscription)
- Last updated
- Jun 21, 2026
Revenue estimate
Unknown
Valuation estimate
Acquired by NiCE for ~$955M (announced Jul 2025)
Investments
$165M total funding before acquisition; $100M Series C in 2024
Target customers
Large contact centers and enterprises
Key competitors
NiCE, Kore.ai, Ada, Parloa, Talkdesk, Five9
Known customers
Toyota, Flix, Nestlé, Bosch, Lufthansa
Classification (raw research text)
- Core focus
- Customer-service AI agents and conversational AI automation
- Core industry
- Customer Support / Contact Center
- Core category
- Conversational AI / CX agent platform
Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured segment/industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Attribute breakdown
- AI Workflows Primary focus
- AI Automation / Business Process Automation Primary focus
- Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Primary focus
- Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Primary focus
- System / API Integration Primary focus
- Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
- Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Secondary feature
- AI / LLM Data Pipeline Secondary feature
- Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Secondary feature
- Traditional Machine Learning Secondary feature
- AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
- AI Observability / Monitoring Secondary feature
- AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
- Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
- AI Governance / Policy Management Secondary feature
- AI Risk / Compliance Secondary feature
- Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Secondary feature
- Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Secondary feature
- Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Primary focus
- Voice AI Agents Primary focus
- Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Secondary feature
- AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Primary focus
- Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Secondary feature
- Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Primary focus
Show all 32 attributes
- AI Workflows Primary focus
- AI Automation / Business Process Automation Primary focus
- AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Not emphasized
- Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Primary focus
- Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Primary focus
- System / API Integration Primary focus
- Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
- Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Not emphasized
- Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Secondary feature
- AI / LLM Data Pipeline Secondary feature
- Document AI / Document Processing Not emphasized
- Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Secondary feature
- Traditional Machine Learning Secondary feature
- AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
- AI Observability / Monitoring Secondary feature
- AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
- Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
- AI Governance / Policy Management Secondary feature
- AI Risk / Compliance Secondary feature
- AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Not emphasized
- Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Secondary feature
- Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Not emphasized
- Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Secondary feature
- Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Primary focus
- Voice AI Agents Primary focus
- Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Secondary feature
- AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Primary focus
- Sales / Revenue Intelligence Not emphasized
- Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Secondary feature
- Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Primary focus
- Vertical-Specific AI Not emphasized