How much did Metacognition AI raise?

Metacognition AI raised $10M at Seed, announced 9 September 2026.

Who founded Metacognition AI?

Anton van den Hengel is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Metacognition AI.

What does Metacognition AI do?

Metacognition AI operates in Robotics & Hardware and is based in Australia.

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Metacognition AI raises $10M

Metacognition AI announced a Seed round of $10M on 9 September 2026. The company operates in Robotics & Hardware and is based in Australia. It was founded by Anton van den Hengel, Co-founder and Chief Scientist. Announced 34 days ago.

Raised

$10M

Stage

Seed

Industry

Robotics & Hardware

Country

Australia

Founder

Anton van den Hengel

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Metacognition AI

LinkedIn profile metacognitionai.com

Outreach angles

-Van den Hengel is Chief Scientist of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and a former Director of Machine Learning at Amazon, with an H-index of 92 across 400+ papers.
-Co-founder Stephen Gould previously co-founded Sensory Networks, which Intel acquired in 2013.
-Metacognition AI just raised a $10 million seed round backed by Main Sequence Ventures and the South Australian Government to build a 'Windows for robots' operating system.