# Cyber Company Profiles: Cognni

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## At a Glance

- Website: [cognni.ai](https://cognni.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/cognni
- Type: Data Security, Governance Risk Compliance
- Also known as: Shieldox
- Market readiness: Emerging (22/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (12/21)
- Founded: 2019
- Last updated: 2026-07-16

## Executive Summary

Cognni is a small Tel Aviv company that uses AI to classify and label sensitive data across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, the unstructured business content that keyword-based tools miss. The product is coherent and quick to deploy. It feeds Microsoft Purview and reaches buyers through the Microsoft sales channel. Momentum evidence is thin: its investor describes backing startups with market fit and customers, but the cited record documents only a 3 million dollar SAFE from October 2021. The logos it displays under a trust banner are not identified as paying customers. Against larger data-security platforms, its strongest proof point is still a Microsoft partnership, not named production deployments.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Cognni: contextual-AI data classification that discovers, maps, and labels sensitive unstructured information across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, then feeds that context into Microsoft Purview to drive policy enforcement. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2019 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Tel Aviv, Israel | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | SAFE, $3M (Springtide Ventures, October 2021) | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cognni | Agentless contextual-AI platform that maps, classifies, and labels sensitive unstructured data across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace and enriches Microsoft Purview for policy enforcement. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Cognni discovers, maps, and classifies sensitive unstructured data across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, labels it to enrich Microsoft Purview, drives policy enforcement, and flags insider and shadow-AI exposure. These capabilities are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Emerging (22/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-08. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 |
| Market Timing | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 2/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Exposed (12/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-16. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Cognni homepage (Autonomous Data Intelligence)](https://cognni.ai/) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f2 | [PR Newswire: Cognni secures investment from Springtide Ventures Fund](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/information-intelligence-pioneer-cognni-secures-investment-from-springtide-ventures-fund-301410875.html) | press | 2026-07-03 |
| f3 | [KKCG: Springtide Ventures Fund invests in the Israeli start-up Cognni](https://kkcg.com/en/news/article/springtide-ventures-fund-invests-in-the-israeli-start-up-cognni) | press | 2026-07-03 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Cognni homepage: Autonomous Data Intelligence (capabilities, Microsoft Purview and Google Workspace integrations, 15-minute deploy)](https://cognni.ai/) “Agentless mapping of hidden data interactions ... Sensitive data is leaking into LLMs and GenAI tools like Copilot without any governing layer ... Apply contextual AI to understand the true meaning and automate labeling. Drive policy enforcement everywhere.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [Cyber Security Intelligence directory: Cognni (formerly Shieldox), Data Security & Encryption, Tel Aviv](https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/cognni-4129.html) “Cognni (formerly Shieldox) will make your InfoSec think like a human, right out of the box, so you can focus on the bigger picture, keeping the information flow safe.” | other | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [KKCG: Springtide Ventures Fund invests in the Israeli start-up Cognni](https://kkcg.com/en/news/article/springtide-ventures-fund-invests-in-the-israeli-start-up-cognni) “investing USD 3 million in Cognni in the form of SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [PR Newswire: Cognni secures investment from Springtide Ventures Fund (Oct 28, 2021)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/information-intelligence-pioneer-cognni-secures-investment-from-springtide-ventures-fund-301410875.html) “Based in Tel Aviv, Cognni ... providing medium to large companies ... Established in 2019 ... said Guy Eisdorfer, Cognni's CEO ... member of the prestigious Microsoft Intelligent Security Association and the company's solutions are offered in the Microsoft sales network.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [Cognni trust-surface probe: homepage footer render plus trust./security. subdomain (NXDOMAIN) and /trust /security /compliance path checks, 2026-07-03](https://cognni.ai/) “© 2026 COGNNI LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Cognni demo page: zero-touch, compliance automation, 30-minute walkthrough](https://cognni.ai/Demo) “In this 30-minute demo, our experts will show you how to map and classify sensitive data without slowing business down. We will cover: How Cognni automates your compliance, Our platform's zero-touch approach” | official | 2026-07-03 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Cognni homepage: capabilities, Microsoft Purview and Google Workspace integrations, 15-minute deploy](https://cognni.ai/) “Agentless mapping of hidden data interactions ... Sensitive data is leaking into LLMs and GenAI tools like Copilot without any governing layer ... Apply contextual AI to understand the true meaning and automate labeling. Drive policy enforcement everywhere.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [Cyber Security Intelligence directory: Cognni (formerly Shieldox), Data Security & Encryption, Tel Aviv](https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/cognni-4129.html) “Cognni (formerly Shieldox) will make your InfoSec think like a human, right out of the box, so you can focus on the bigger picture, keeping the information flow safe.” | other | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [KKCG: Springtide Ventures Fund invests in the Israeli start-up Cognni](https://kkcg.com/en/news/article/springtide-ventures-fund-invests-in-the-israeli-start-up-cognni) “investing USD 3 million in Cognni in the form of SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [PR Newswire: Cognni secures investment from Springtide Ventures Fund (Oct 28, 2021)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/information-intelligence-pioneer-cognni-secures-investment-from-springtide-ventures-fund-301410875.html) “Based in Tel Aviv, Cognni ... providing medium to large companies ... Established in 2019 ... said Guy Eisdorfer, Cognni's CEO ... member of the prestigious Microsoft Intelligent Security Association and the company's solutions are offered in the Microsoft sales network.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [Probe of Cognni trust surfaces (trust./security. subdomains NXDOMAIN, /trust /security /compliance /soc2 serve homepage bytes, python urllib, 2026-07-16)](https://trust.cognni.ai/) “trust.cognni.ai and security.cognni.ai return NXDOMAIN. /trust, /security, /compliance, and /soc2 each serve the homepage bytes (sha256 14887d16, 74854 bytes), which contain no SOC 2, ISO 27001, or trust-center language.” | official | 2026-07-16 |
| s6 | [Cognni demo page: zero-touch, compliance automation, 30-minute walkthrough](https://cognni.ai/Demo) “In this 30-minute demo, our experts will show you how to map and classify sensitive data without slowing business down. We will cover: How Cognni automates your compliance, Our platform's zero-touch approach” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [Microsoft Learn: Purview data classification overview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/data-classification-overview) “Microsoft Purview offers three ways to classify content: manually, with automated pattern-matching, and by using trainable classifiers.” | official | 2026-07-16 |

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