COGNITIVE SPACE, INC
AI software platform for autonomous satellite operations and satellite data processing
- Sector
- Defense
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX
- Founded
- 2018
- Latest Form D
- $500K, Dec 2023
- Total capital
- $17M
- Federal grants
- $1.6M
- 4 awards · 2019–2023
- Rank in peer group#33 of 89
- Private capital raised
- $7.5M
- 3 Form D · last Dec 2023
- 34 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- $7.8M
- 8 awards · Defense, Commerce
- Rank in Defense#443 of 1442
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal contractDefense · Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (shield) Initial Order.$500
- Federal contractDefense · Cognitive Space Will Enhance Its Cntient-optimize Product And Work With Sda Through An Agile Development Process To Update, Demonstrate And Iterate With The Sda Customer For The Effective Automated Tasking Of Tracking Layer Satellites.$1.8M
- Federal contractCommerce · To Conduct Limited Scale Demonstrations In Response To BAA-NOAA-GPD-2023$900K
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$500K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · CNTIENT for Topology and Link Management of a Dynamic Satellite Network$1.2M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$1.3M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Intelligent space mesh network routing for communication resiliency$275K
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$5.7M
Show 7 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractDefense · Add-work Modification To FA8649-20-C-0031: Cntient Product Expansion$1.2M
- Federal contractDefense · Cognitive Space Inc - Space Pitch Day 2021$1.7M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · CNTIENT GOV-GS - Intelligent antenna network management for effective SATCOM$50K
- Federal contractDefense · Advanced Battle Management System$3K
- Federal contractDefense · Cognitive Space Will Support Five Exercise Through An Adaptation Of The Cntient-space Product Tailored For Each Exercise During A Technical Period Of Performance Of 15 Months.$750K
- Federal contractDefense · COVID-19 Dib To Adapt Cognitive Space's Commercial CNTIENT-SC3 Product For The Automated Command Generation For Air Force Satellites.$1.5M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · AI Driven Autonomous Tasking for USAF Satellite Command and Control$50K
Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
Federal first
23months
from COGNITIVE SPACE, INC’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Dec 2019
- Defense · $50K
- First Form D · Nov 2021
- $5.7M · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 6 awards
An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.
Standing among 89 peers
Line = medianDefense · Software
- Federal grants#33 · top 37%
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Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Guy de CarufelResearcherExecutive Officer, DirectorLinked by $325K in grants as PI
- Andrew FeinbergDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Hanna SteplewskaExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Jennifer RobertsDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Keith MasbackDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Scott HermanExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.
Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Defense
- Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements ThresholdsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
How to read this page
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Data freshness
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