Cognis Overview

  • Founded
  • 1999

Founded

  • Status
  • Acquired/​Merged

  • Employees
  • 5,500

Employees

  • Latest Deal Type
  • M&A

  • Financing Rounds
  • 8

  • Investments
  • 3

Cognis General Information

Description

Supplier of specialty chemicals and nutritional ingredients based on natural raw material based chemistry. The company provides various products such as adhesives, agrosolutions, care chemicals, coatings, emulsion polymerization, graphic arts, industrial coatings, ion-transfer technology, mining chemicals, polymer building blocks and synlubes technology. It operates through three business units namely, Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health, and Functional Products.

Contact Information

Website
www.cognis.com
Ownership Status
Acquired/Merged
Financing Status
Formerly PE-Backed
Primary Industry
Multi-line Chemicals
Acquirer
BASF
Primary Office
  • Postfach 13 01 64
  • Rheinpromenade 1
  • 40789 Monheim am Rhein
  • Germany
+49 02173 0000000

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Cognis Valuation & Funding

Deal Type Date Amount Valuation/
EBITDA		 Post-Val Status Debt

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Cognis Patents

  • 6,812

    Total Documents Applications and Grants

  • 000

    Total Patents Families

  • 142

    Granted

  • 4

    Pending

  • 000

    Expiring in next 12 mo

Cognis Recent Patent Activity

Publication ID Patent Title Status First Filing Date Technology (CPC) Citations
CA-2899983-A1 Cleaning compositions comprising low hlb 2-propyl heptyl alcohol alkoxylates and alkyl polyglucosides Inactive 01-Feb-2013 000000000
EP-2951276-A1 Cleaning compositions comprising low hlb 2-propyl heptyl alcohol alkoxylates and alkyl polyglucosides Inactive 01-Feb-2013 000000000
JP-2016510356-A Cleaning composition comprising low hlb 2-propylheptyl alcohol alkoxylate and alkyl polyglucoside Pending 01-Feb-2013 000000000
US-9120998-B2 Cleaning compositions comprising low hlb 2-propyl heptyl alcohol alkoxylates and alkyl polyglucosides Inactive 01-Feb-2013 00000000
US-20140221268-A1 Cleaning compositions comprising low hlb 2-propyl heptyl alcohol alkoxylates and alkyl polyglucosides Active 01-Feb-2013 C11D3/22
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Cognis Executive Team (7)

Name Title Board Seat Contact Info
Stephane Baseden Executive Vice President, Nutrition & Health
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Cognis Signals

Growth Rate

0.80% Weekly
Growth
Weekly Growth 0.80%, 93rd %
-35.5%. 530%

Size Multiple

219x Median
Size Multiple 219x, 100th %ile
0.00x 0.95x. 413Kx

Key Data Points

Twitter Followers

5.5k

Similarweb Unique Visitors

15.0K

Majestic Referring Domains

314

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Cognis Former Investors

Investor Name Investor Type Holding Investor Since Participating Rounds Contact Info

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Cognis Investments & Acquisitions (3)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Lead Partner
00000-000000 01-Apr-2009 0000000000 Specialty Chemicals
00000000 0000 03-Mar-2008 00000 0000 Agricultural Chemicals 0000000 0
Napro Pharma 05-Jun-2006 Buyout/LBO Food Products 00000000
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Cognis Exits (2)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size Status Buyers
00000000 000000000 03-Mar-2008 00000 00000 00 Completed
  • 000000
Napro Pharma 05-Jun-2006 Buyout/LBO Completed
  • 3 buyers
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