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Cohere

ACTIVE
AI Lab
Cohere AICohere Labs

Canadian AI company building enterprise-grade large language models and generative AI solutions, with a focus on data security and business deployments.

Founded2019Canada
HQTorontoCanada
Total fundingOver US$1B raised; valuation estimated at roughly US$5.5–7B (2024–2025). Investors include Inovia Capital, NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce Ventures, Cisco and AMD Ventures.
01 · About

Cohere

Founded 2019 · Toronto, Canada

Cohere is a Canadian artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang. It specializes in building large language models and generative AI solutions for enterprises, with an emphasis on data privacy, flexible deployment (cloud, VPC, on-premise) and security. Its flagship Command model family is complemented by Embed and Rerank models for semantic search and the North agent platform. Through Cohere Labs, the company develops open, multilingual models in the Aya family.

  • Aidan Gomez

    Co-founder & CEO

    Co-author of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need" (Transformer); formerly a researcher at Google Brain.

  • Nick Frosst

    Co-founder

    The first employee of Geoffrey Hinton's Google Brain lab in Toronto.

  • Ivan Zhang

    Co-founder

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

5 areas · 6 technologies · 3 industries
What they do5Areas
  • Language models
  • Agent systems
  • Cloud AI
  • AI developer tools
  • AI Governance & Safety
How they do it6Technologies
  • LLM
  • Generative AI
  • Foundation Models
  • NLP
  • RAG
  • Agentic AI
Who for3Industries
  • Software & Technology
  • Finance & banking
  • Healthcare
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Toronto · 4 offices · 1 regions
Global
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2019
2019founded
Over US$1B raised; valuation estimated at roughly US$5.5–7B (2024–2025). Investors include Inovia Capital, NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce Ventures, Cisco and AMD Ventures.total funding
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 5 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagegrowth
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeAI Lab