Pascal Lauria

Overview
Pascal Lauria is a Germany-based entrepreneur who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cogia AG, a Frankfurt-area artificial-intelligence and market-intelligence software company. He started the business in 2010 as Cogia Intelligence GmbH and took it public as Cogia AG on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange in 2021.

Why this entity matters
Lauria represents a founder-led path from a bootstrapped software business to a listed small-cap technology company on a German regional exchange — a less common route than the venture-backed trajectory typical of DACH tech coverage, and one that Startuprad.io has followed through both a founder interview and a subsequent thematic FinTech review.

Company / career background
Per Cogia's own materials and Startuprad.io's coverage, Lauria founded Cogia Intelligence GmbH in 2010, building software for text analytics, market intelligence and web-monitoring. The company was listed as Cogia AG on the Düsseldorf stock exchange (Börse Düsseldorf) in 2021, with Lauria continuing as founder and CEO. Startuprad.io's interview with Lauria covered the IPO and the company's strategy of using public-market access to pursue consolidation in its market-intelligence and AI software niche.

Role in the startup ecosystem
As founder-CEO of a listed AI/market-intelligence software company, Lauria is a reference point in Startuprad.io's DACH capital-markets and small-cap technology coverage, illustrating an AI-enabled software business that reached the public markets from a bootstrapped starting point rather than through a traditional venture-funding sequence.

Selected relationships and affiliations
Lauria is the founder and CEO of Cogia AG (formerly Cogia Intelligence GmbH); Cogia is itself catalogued as a separate Startuprad.io entity. No other public board, investor, or institutional affiliations for Lauria were identified in the sources reviewed for this record.

Startuprad.io relevance
Startuprad.io conducted a founder interview with Lauria around Cogia's 2021 IPO and later referenced Cogia and its founder in a 2024 thematic FinTech review of trends and innovations in DACH startups.

Public source context
This record draws on Cogia's own website, the company's LinkedIn page, public listing information for Börse Düsseldorf, and Startuprad.io's own founder interview and thematic review. Biographical detail beyond Lauria's role at Cogia was limited in the sources available for this research pass; no independent, verifiable public LinkedIn profile could be confidently matched to this individual among several similarly named profiles, so no personal LinkedIn URL is included in this record.

Startuprad.io coverage
Fintech Review 2024: Navigating Trends and Innovations in Startups
Published: 20 December 2024
Last updated: 21 September 2026
Coverage type: Analysis
https://www.startuprad.io/post/fintech-review-2024-navigating-trends-and-innovations-in-startups

Cogia Just IPOed And Wants to Use the Access to Capital to Drive Market Consolidation
Published: 14 January 2021
Last updated: 21 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/cogia-just-ipoed-and-wants-to-use-the-access-to-capital-to-drive-market-consolidation

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