Why we built Cognify
Founded in Nashville in 2021 by an ML engineer who watched compliance reviews kill good models.
Fatima Al-Rashid
CEO & Founder
Before founding Cognify, Fatima spent four years as a machine learning engineer at a large healthcare technology company, where she built clinical NLP models that repeatedly stalled in compliance review — not because the models were bad, but because the documentation didn't exist. Cognify started as the internal tooling she wished had existed.
Founded in 2021 in Nashville, near the healthcare IT ecosystem she knew well — HCA Healthcare, Vanderbilt health systems, Change Healthcare — Cognify is now used by ML teams at regulated enterprises across healthcare, financial services, and insurance.
Our mission
"Every regulated enterprise should be able to deploy fine-tuned AI without choosing between speed and auditability. Cognify exists to remove that tradeoff."
The team
Fatima Al-Rashid
CEO & Founder
Darius Wren
CTO & Co-Founder
Sona Mehrotra
Head of Product
Callum Reeves
Lead ML Infrastructure Engineer
Ingrid Holst
Head of Compliance Strategy
Rafael Diaz
Senior Backend Engineer
Backed by angels who understand regulated AI
In July 2025, Cognify raised $2 million in angel funding from individual investors with backgrounds in healthcare IT and financial services compliance technology.