Cognyte UK Ltd
Cognyte UK Ltd is a company on the UK Companies House register with address or ownership links to Israel. This profile is part of UK companies linked to 'Israel'; see UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology for how companies were selected and scored.
Profile
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| Type | Private limited Company |
| Founded | 22 Jun 2026 |
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| Headquarters | 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom |
| Industry | 62012 - Business and domestic software development |
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| Parent | Cognyte Software Ltd |
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| Homepage | cognyte.com |
- Category: P / O / D (Israeli corporate PSC / parent company; officer(s) with an Israeli correspondence address; defence, security, surveillance or cyber-intelligence activity); connection score 5
- Company number: 17294745[1]
- Status: Active
- Type: Private limited Company
- Incorporated / registered: 22 Jun 2026
- SIC: 62012 - Business and domestic software development
- Registered office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
- Listing / market cap: Not listed. Parent Cognyte Software (NASDAQ: CGNT) ≈ US$0.64bn.[2]
Israel connection:
- CH PSC: Cognyte Software Ltd (Herzliya, Israel). Both directors have Israeli correspondence addresses (CH). An earlier UK subsidiary, Cognyte Software UK (12516929), was sold in 2022 and renamed Intellicene; see the defence compilation.
Persons with significant control (CH):[1]
- Cognyte Software Ltd (active) — address: Maskit St., Herzeliya, 4673333, Israel; legal form Limited Company; governing law Israel; registered at Israel; registration number 516196425; country registered Israel; notified 22 Jun 2026; nature of control: ownership of shares – 75% or more; voting rights – 75% or more; right to appoint or remove directors
Directors (CH; 2 director appointments, 2 current; † = Israel correspondence address, 2 appointments):[1]
| Name | Born (month/year) | Service | † |
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| David Abadi | December 1973 | Jun 2026–present | † |
| Ilan Rotem | August 1964 | Jun 2026–present | † |
Latest accounts (income/expenditure): Incorporated 22 June 2026. No accounts filed yet.
Arms trade involvement: Parent sells "lawful interception" and investigative-analytics systems to state security agencies. Israel treats such systems as controlled defence exports: Israel's attorney general's office said Cognyte had no licence for its Myanmar system.[3]
Supply to the IDF / Israel MOD / Israeli security services: None documented in the sources reviewed. (No supply to the IDF verified.)
Activities in the occupied territories: None documented in the sources reviewed; not listed by Who Profits or the OHCHR database.
Links to the Israeli government: A legal complaint filed in Israel in Jan 2023 alleges that the Israel MOD and Foreign Ministry authorised Cognyte to bid for the Myanmar tender.[4] The attorney general's office later said there was no licence but found insufficient evidence to investigate.[3]
WZO / JNF / Jewish Agency / Keren Hayesod: None found in the sources reviewed.
Controversies (protests, legal cases, export-licence rulings):
- Parent group: Reuters and Justice For Myanmar reported that Cognyte won a tender to supply intercept equipment to state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications in Dec 2020, a month before the military coup.[5][6]
- Parent group: in Dec 2021 Meta removed about 100 accounts linked to Cognyte and named it among "cyber-mercenary" firms that targeted journalists and politicians.[7][6]
See also
- UK companies linked to 'Israel'
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Alphabetical
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Ranked by density of connection
- UK Companies with documented links to business activity in the Occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Golan
- UK defence, security, surveillance and dual-use technology companies with documented business ties to 'Israel'
- UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Companies House, Cognyte UK Ltd (17294745): company overview Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
- ↑ CompaniesMarketCap, Cognyte Software (CGNT) – market capitalization companiesmarketcap.com, October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Haaretz, Israeli company Cognyte sold cyber-intel system to Myanmar without license, State Attorney says Haaretz, 9 April 2024.
- ↑ Eitay Mack et al., Demand to open criminal investigation against the company Cognyte Software Ltd (English text) Burma Library, 2 January 2023.
- ↑ Reuters, Israel's Cognyte won tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar before coup – documents Reuters, 15 January 2023.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Justice For Myanmar, Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte's business in Myanmar exposed Justice For Myanmar, January 2023.
- ↑ Al Jazeera, Meta bans 'cyber-mercenaries' that targeted 50,000 people Al Jazeera, 17 December 2021.