Cognism
Headquarters
London, EnglandFounded
2015CEO / Founder
Dominic AllonEmployees
201-500Funding
Series CProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
www.cognism.com/
Profile updated
About Cognism
Cognism was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England. The company provides B2B data and sales intelligence, supplying phone-verified contact information, intent data, and company data to revenue teams primarily across EMEA and North America. Dominic Allon serves as Chief Executive Officer.
The platform offers CRM enrichment, outbound prospecting tools, and integrations with major sales technology stacks including Salesforce and HubSpot. Cognism positions itself as a specialist in GDPR-compliant European B2B data, emphasizing data accuracy and regulatory compliance over data volume. The company serves more than 4,000 revenue teams, including customers such as Asana, Aircall, Notion, and Seismic.
Cognism raised $87.8 million in a Series C funding round in February 2022. The company employs between 201 and 500 people across offices in Europe and North America.
Specialties
Financials
Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.
Products by Cognism
All products by Cognism reviewed by our AI panel of experts.
How Our Review Panel Scores Cognism
Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Cognism's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.
Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.
Competitive Landscape
Who Cognism competes with, and how they differ.
ZoomInfo is the market-leading US sales-intelligence platform, bundling contact/company data with intent signals and conversation intelligence (via its Chorus.ai acquisition) at enterprise price points well above Cognism; Cognism differentiates on GDPR/CCPA-first, phone-verified data for EU-heavy sales teams.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Apollo.io pairs a large self-serve contact database with built-in sales engagement (sequences, dialer) on a freemium, low-cost PLG model, competing for the same SDR buyer as Cognism but leaning on volume and price rather than Cognism's compliance-audited data sourcing.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Seamless.AI is a US-centric, credit-based real-time contact search tool aimed at individual reps and small teams, competing on breadth of search rather than Cognism's phone-verified, compliance-audited data model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedLusha is an Israel-based, browser-extension-led contact-data provider targeting the same GDPR/CCPA-conscious SMB-to-mid-market buyer as Cognism at a comparable per-seat price point, relying on a community-sourced data model versus Cognism's own-verified Diamond Data.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Cognism's history, with sources.
- Milestone
CNIL closes enforcement order against Kaspr
CNIL closed its enforcement order against Kaspr after the company deleted unlawfully collected data, stopped LinkedIn scraping and met the other corrective measures ordered in December 2024.
cnil.fr - Milestone
Preliminary settlement in Kis v. Cognism, Inc. class action
Cognism, Inc. (Cognism's US entity) reached a preliminary settlement in an Illinois class action alleging it displayed individuals' contact profiles to free-trial users in violation of state privacy and right-of-publicity laws; Cognism denied wrongdoing and a final approval hearing was set for December 9, 2025.
classaction.org - Milestone
Kaspr fined €240,000 by France's CNIL
France's data protection authority CNIL fined Kaspr, Cognism's French subsidiary, €240,000 for unlawfully scraping LinkedIn users' contact details beyond their chosen visibility settings and retaining the data too long.
cnil.fr - Acquisition
Acquired Kaspr
Cognism acquired Kaspr, a Paris-based LinkedIn contact-prospecting tool founded by Allan Benguigui and Omar Ghorbel, for an undisclosed sum; Kaspr had around 1,500 customers and 50,000 users at the time.
salestechstar.com - Funding
Series C — $87.5M led by Viking Global Investors and Blue Cloud Ventures
Cognism closed an $87.5M Series C led by new investors Viking Global Investors and Blue Cloud Ventures, with follow-on participation from AXA Venture Partners, Swisscom Ventures and Volution.
therecursive.com - Funding
Series B extension — $12.5M led by AXA Venture Partners
Cognism raised $12.5M led by AXA Venture Partners, joined by Investiere, VentureFounders and new investor Swisscom Ventures; Cognism reported ARR growing 60% year-on-year to $11M by December 2020.
cognism.com - Acquisition
Acquired Mailtastic
Cognism acquired Mailtastic, a Mainz, Germany-based email-signature marketing platform founded by Tao Bauer, Peer Wierzbitzki and Andreas Schroder, in an undisclosed seven-figure deal.
mediapost.com - Funding
Series B extension — $12M led by AXA Venture Partners
Cognism raised a further $12M led by AXA Venture Partners, with existing investor PeakSpan Capital following on, to expand across Europe.
cognism.com - Funding
Series B — $10M led by PeakSpan Capital
Cognism raised a $10M Series B led by New York-based PeakSpan Capital, bringing total funding to just over $16.5M, to expand into Boston and Singapore.
tech.eu - Founded
Founded — Cognism Limited incorporated in London
Cognism Limited was incorporated in London under UK company number 09392705, per Companies House.
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