# Cohere

> Cohere empowers every developer and enterprise to build products and capture business value with language AI.

Company page on Leadbay: https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/company/cohere.com · loaded 2026-11-03

## At a glance

- Website: https://cohere.com
- Team based in: Toronto (cohere.com and 1 more)
- Founded: 2019 (cohere.com and 1 more)
- Founders: Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang
- Industry: Software Development
- Employees: 1271 (employees and founders, investors not counted; cohere.com and 1 more)
- Total funding: $2.3B (cohere.com and 1 more)
- Backed by: Schwarz Group, NVIDIA, Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital, Inovia Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Government of Canada, Radical Ventures, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Section 32, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, PSP Investments, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, Business Development Bank of Canada, Nexxus Capital Management, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, Raquel Urtasun
- Seen in its site's code: Google Tag Manager (googletagmanager.com/gtm.js), Next.js (/_next/static/), Google Workspace (MX alt1.aspmx.l.google.com), Salesforce (TXT include:_spf.salesforce.com), Amazon SES (TXT amazonses.com), Slack (TXT slack-domain-verification) (read 2026-11-03)
- Email: support@cohere.com, team@cohere.ai

## Why it stands out

- Fast Company Most Innovative Companies of 2026 ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-pelosi-7337451a_leaders-at-cohere-wealthsimple-top-the-logic-activity-7416870056275595264-IHFI), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_proud-to-announce-that-cohere-has-been-awarded-activity-7468252928550518784-krXu))
- First place in NATO's Agentic AI for Cognitive Warfare Innovation Challenge (June 2026) ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-pelosi-7337451a_leaders-at-cohere-wealthsimple-top-the-logic-activity-7416870056275595264-IHFI), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_proud-to-announce-that-cohere-has-been-awarded-activity-7468252928550518784-krXu))
- Canada's Leading Innovator of 2025 (The Logic subscribers vote, tied with Wealthsimple) ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-pelosi-7337451a_leaders-at-cohere-wealthsimple-top-the-logic-activity-7416870056275595264-IHFI), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_proud-to-announce-that-cohere-has-been-awarded-activity-7468252928550518784-krXu))
- Named Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrant (alongside Google, Databricks, Anthropic) ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-pelosi-7337451a_leaders-at-cohere-wealthsimple-top-the-logic-activity-7416870056275595264-IHFI), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_proud-to-announce-that-cohere-has-been-awarded-activity-7468252928550518784-krXu))
- 2025 Top Rated Software Award (FeaturedCustomers) ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-pelosi-7337451a_leaders-at-cohere-wealthsimple-top-the-logic-activity-7416870056275595264-IHFI), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_proud-to-announce-that-cohere-has-been-awarded-activity-7468252928550518784-krXu))
- Competes with: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (DeepMind / Gemini), Meta, Mistral AI, AI21 Labs, DeepSeek, Nous Research, Moonshot AI, Arcee, Hugging Face, Databricks ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7), [sacra.com](https://sacra.com/c/cohere/), [betakit.com](https://betakit.com/coheres-valuation-hits-7-billion-usd-following-100-million-round-extension/))

## Products and services

- Command A+ (generative LLM, May 2026) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Command A Reasoning ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Command A Translate ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Command A Vision ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Command R / Command R7B (generative models) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- North (security-first agentic AI platform / AI operating system) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Compass (workplace systems / data connectors) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Embed4 (retrieval model) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Rerank 4 Fast / Rerank 4 Pro (retrieval models) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Parse 5 (document parsing / OCR) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Transcribe (speech recognition) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Aya Vision (multimodal multilingual model) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- Cohere for AI (nonprofit open multilingual AI research lab) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- API Platform (cloud-agnostic, private cloud, on-premises deployment) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/about), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))

## Customers and markets

- **Customers**: Oracle, Dell, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Bell Canada, Fujitsu, LG CNS, SAP, Ensemble Health Partners, Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team, RWS (language services), Notion, Jasper, HyperWrite, LivePerson, Superwhisper, Government of Canada, UK Government, NATO, Indra Group (Spain) ([obj.ca](https://obj.ca/ai-powerhouse-cohere-to-open-office-near-lansdowne-park/), [techjournal.uk](https://www.techjournal.uk/p/cohere-builds-ai-models-from-scratch), [convergedigest.com](https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/))
- **Markets**: Enterprise AI for regulated industries (finance, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, public sector) ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-canada-commitment), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-north-2), [mattermost.com](https://mattermost.com/newsroom/press-releases/mattermost-and-cohere-deliver-sovereign-human-machine-teaming-to-on-premises-air-gapped-and-classified-environments/))
- **Markets**: Sovereign AI for governments and defence organizations globally ([cohere.com](https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-canada-commitment), [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-north-2), [mattermost.com](https://mattermost.com/newsroom/press-releases/mattermost-and-cohere-deliver-sovereign-human-machine-teaming-to-on-premises-air-gapped-and-classified-environments/))

## Team

- Aidan Gomez, CEO & Co-founder
- Aaron Fleishman, Partner · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-fleishman-29077325)
- Michael McMillan, VP, Global Partner Ecosystem
- Nick Frosst, Co-founder
- Ivan Zhang, Co-founder
- Francois Chadwick, Chief Financial Officer
- Nicolás Morales, Vice President, Customer Experience
- Karl Moritz Hermann, VP, AI Verticalization
- Melika Carroll, Head of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP)
- Neil Katz, Global Talent Acquisition Leader · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilk)
- Phil Blunsom, Chief Scientist

Backed by: Schwarz Group, NVIDIA, Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital, Inovia Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Government of Canada, Radical Ventures, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Section 32, AMD Ventures

## Latest news

- 2026-10-29 · [Cohere Announces Series E Fundraise Targeting CAD $7 Billion to Meet Surging Global Demand for Secure, Sovereign AI](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cohere-announces-series-e-fundraise-targeting-cad-7-billion-to-meet-surging-global-demand-for-secure-sovereign-ai-811489745.html) (newswire.ca)
- 2026-10-28 · [Mattermost and Cohere Deliver Sovereign Human-Machine Teaming to On-Premises, Air-Gapped, and Classified Environments](https://www.prweb.com/releases/mattermost-and-cohere-deliver-sovereign-human-machine-teaming-to-on-premises-air-gapped-and-classified-environments-302921779.html) (prweb.com)
- 2026-10-03 · [PwC and Cohere announce a global alliance to accelerate secure and trusted enterprise AI adoption](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/pwc-and-cohere-announce-a-global-alliance-to-accelerate-secure-and-trusted-enterprise-ai-adoption-892514657.html) (newswire.ca)
- 2026-06-16 · [Cohere sees “huge” inbound after the US blocks Anthropic’s latest models | BetaKit](https://betakit.com/cohere-sees-huge-inbound-after-the-us-blocks-anthropics-latest-ai-models/) (betakit.com)
- 2024-04-15 · [Exclusive Q&A with Cohere CEO & Transformer Co-creator Aidan Gomez - Radical Ventures](https://radical.vc/q-and-a-cohere-aidan-gomez/) (radical.vc)

## Where to find more

- [This page in Markdown, for agents](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/company/cohere.com.md)

## Decision makers

- [Aidan Gomez](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/aidan-gomez--cohere.com.md), CEO & Co-founder
- [Aaron Fleishman](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/aaron-fleishman--cohere.com.md), Partner · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-fleishman-29077325)
- [Michael McMillan](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/michael-mcmillan--cohere.com.md), VP, Global Partner Ecosystem
- [Nick Frosst](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/nick-frosst--cohere.com.md), Co-founder
- [Ivan Zhang](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/ivan-zhang--cohere.com.md), Co-founder
- [Francois Chadwick](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/francois-chadwick--cohere.com.md), Chief Financial Officer
- [Nicolás Morales](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/nicolas-morales--cohere.com.md), Vice President, Customer Experience
- [Karl Moritz Hermann](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/karl-moritz-hermann--cohere.com.md), VP, AI Verticalization
- [Melika Carroll](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/melika-carroll--cohere.com.md), Head of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP)

Work emails and direct phones come with a Leadbay account: https://wow.leadbay.ai/?register=true

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## Best angle

2026-09-30 · Product: PwC and Cohere announce a global alliance to accelerate secure and trusted enterprise AI adoption (3 sources)

## Best way in

- LinkedIn message to Aaron Fleishman: Partner · profile linked from the company's record
- Message on X: The company's own account

## Signals: what happened

- 2026-11-03 · Headcount: Headcount up 57% in a year (1 source: [A company database](https://cohere.com/))
- 2026-10-29 · Fundraising: Cohere Announces Series E Fundraise Targeting CAD $7 Billion to Meet Surging Global Demand for Secure, Sovereign AI (1 source: [newswire.ca](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cohere-announces-series-e-fundraise-targeting-cad-7-billion-to-meet-surging-global-demand-for-secure-sovereign-ai-811489745.html))
- 2026-10-28 · News: Mattermost and Cohere Deliver Sovereign Human-Machine Teaming to On-Premises, Air-Gapped, and Classified Environments (1 source: [prweb.com](https://www.prweb.com/releases/mattermost-and-cohere-deliver-sovereign-human-machine-teaming-to-on-premises-air-gapped-and-classified-environments-302921779.html))
- 2026-10-26 · News: In the spirit of transparency and openness, we are releasing the traces so developers can test this out for themselves. We noticed this behaviour without prefilling with the following prompt, but this … (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_coherelabs10-2026-qwen-investigation-traces-activity-7520615846877093888-b_ph))
- 2026-10-23 · News: Cohere's Model Vault is now available in public beta. (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_coheres-model-vault-is-now-available-in-activity-7519499988146765824-m4Y_))
- 2026-10-20 · News: A model’s confidence should reflect what changes when it reasons. (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-labs_rethinking-confidence-in-reasoning-models-activity-7518320808105021441--XbP))
- 2026-10-06 · News: 🌉 To continue our series of advancing the multilinguality of today's LLMs: here's our recipe for making even a tiny model (3.35B) reason in >60 languages. We see reasoning as a bridge … (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-labs_activity-7513304313767596032-suAd))
- 2026-10-02 · Expansion: Open doors for open weights 🚀 (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_open-doors-for-open-weights-vllm-and-activity-7511903578748297217-WRsr))
- 2026-10-02 · News: You might’ve noticed that our benchmarks for Embed 5 look a bit different 👀 (1 source: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_webinar-the-future-of-search-and-retrieval-activity-7511873992375353344-wRKk))
- 2026-09-30 · Product: PwC and Cohere announce a global alliance to accelerate secure and trusted enterprise AI adoption (3 sources: [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_introducing-embed-5-our-new-state-of-the-art-activity-7511050588508524545-BbOR), [newswire.ca](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/pwc-and-cohere-announce-a-global-alliance-to-accelerate-secure-and-trusted-enterprise-ai-adoption-892514657.html), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cohere-ai_north-2-enterprise-ai-without-compromise-activity-7512862700415381504-WVdY))
- 2026-09-12 · News: North Small Translate: Advanced Cost-Effective Translation (Cohere CAT+) (1 source: [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13916))
- 2026-09-11 · News: Cohere Inc (1 source: [bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1917153D:CN))

## Working on now

- Launched North 2, a full-stack agentic AI platform unifying enterprise security, intelligence, cost governance, and full-stack control (Oct 5, 2026)
- Released Embed 5, a new family of frontier embedding models in Pro and Fast tiers for enterprise retrieval (Sep 30, 2026)
- Announced C$4 billion commitment to Canada through 2031, creating 1,500+ jobs including ~1,000 technical roles (Oct 30, 2026)
- Launched Defence AI Accelerator in Singapore to help sovereign customers move from AI pilots to mission-ready operations (Nov 3, 2026)
- Merging with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a deal valuing the combined entity at ~$20 billion, with $600M investment from Schwarz Group; pending regulatory approval as of mid-2026
- Acquired Reliant AI in May 2026 to expand sovereign enterprise AI for biopharma and healthcare
- Expanding APAC presence with plans to quadruple regional footprint by end of 2027 through new offices and partnerships
- North 2 customers include Bell Canada, LG CNS, Dell, RBC, and public sector/defence organizations across finance, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, energy, and government
- Hiring aggressively across 119+ open roles in Canada, US, UK, Europe, Middle East, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, with heavy focus on public sector/defence, forward deployed engineering, and sovereign AI

From: [Embed 5: Frontier Embedding Models for Enterprise | Cohere](https://cohere.com/blog/embed-5), [Cohere Advances C$4 Billion AI Commitment in Canada, Creating 1,500+ Jobs](https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-canada-commitment), [North 2: Enterprise AI Without Compromises](https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-north-2), [Cohere Launches Defence AI Accelerator in Singapore to Advance Secure, Enterprise-Grade AI Deployment for Sovereign Customers](https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/cohere-launches-defence-ai-accelerator-in-singapore-to-advance-secure-enterprise-grade-ai-deployment-for-sovereign-customers-302927241.html), [Cohere unveils latest AI platform with more agentic features for businesses - The Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-cohere-new-ai-north-platform-more-agentic-features-for-businesses/), [Cohere Explained: Sovereign Enterprise AI Models | TECHi](https://www.techi.com/company/cohere/)

## Summary

Cohere is a Canadian enterprise AI company that builds large language models and agentic AI platforms specifically for businesses and government organizations. Unlike consumer-focused providers, Cohere offers cloud-agnostic technology that can be deployed on public clouds, virtual private clouds, or on-premises to ensure data sovereignty and security. Its core product suite includes the North agentic platform and the Command family of models, which support tasks such as internal search, summarization, and automated workflows. Cohere serves a diverse client base that includes Oracle, Dell, RBC, Fujitsu, LG CNS, SAP, and the Aston Martin F1 team. It competes with major AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Amazon. In April 2026, Cohere announced a merger with the German AI firm Aleph Alpha to expand its specialized offerings for regulated industries and the public sector.

[1]: https://cohere.com/about "About Our Company | Cohere"
[2]: https://sacra.com/c/cohere/ "Cohere revenue, valuation & funding | Sacra"
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohere "Cohere"
[4]: https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cohere-7 "Cohere - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations"
[5]: https://convergedigest.com/cohere-raises-500m-for-security-first-agentic-ai-launches-north-platform/ "Cohere Raises $500M for Security-First Agentic AI, Launches North Platform - Converge Digest"
[6]: https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-startup-cohere-valued-68-billion-latest-fundraising-hires-meta-exec-2025-08-14/ "AI startup Cohere valued at $6.8 billion in latest fundraising, hires Meta exec | Reuters"
[7]: https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/enterprise-genai-startup-unicorn-cohere-raise/ "Enterprise GenAI Startup Cohere Confirms $500M Raise At $6.8B Valuation And Taps Ex-Meta VP As New AI Chief"
[8]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/cohere-hits-7b-valuation-a-month-after-its-last-raise-partners-with-amd/ "Cohere hits $7B valuation a month after its last raise, partners with AMD | TechCrunch"

## Sources

- [Cohere](https://cohere.com)
- [Company record, via Exa](https://cohere.com/)
- [Embed 5: Frontier Embedding Models for Enterprise | Cohere](https://cohere.com/blog/embed-5)
- [Cohere Advances C$4 Billion AI Commitment in Canada, Creating 1,500+ Jobs](https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-canada-commitment)
- [North 2: Enterprise AI Without Compromises](https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-north-2)
- [Cohere Launches Defence AI Accelerator in Singapore to Advance Secure, Enterprise-Grade AI Deployment for Sovereign Customers](https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/cohere-launches-defence-ai-accelerator-in-singapore-to-advance-secure-enterprise-grade-ai-deployment-for-sovereign-customers-302927241.html)
- [Cohere unveils latest AI platform with more agentic features for businesses - The Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-cohere-new-ai-north-platform-more-agentic-features-for-businesses/)
- [Cohere Explained: Sovereign Enterprise AI Models | TECHi](https://www.techi.com/company/cohere/)
- [Deutsch-kanadische KI-Freundschaft: Aleph Alpha und Cohere sollen fusionieren | heise online](https://www.heise.de/news/Eine-politische-Ehe-Aleph-Alpha-und-Cohere-verhandeln-ueber-Fusion-11253023.html)
- [Cohere | Benched.ai](https://benched.ai/companies/cohere)
- [Cohere's New Leadership Team: 2026 Executive Appointments](https://nextaipress.com/7-bold-moves-powering-coheres-rise-in-2026/)
- [Cohere North generally available](https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/cohere-north-generally-available)
- [Cohere's 'North' expands secure AI agents for enterprises](https://itbrief.ca/story/cohere-s-north-expands-secure-ai-agents-for-enterprises)
- [Cohere — Open Positions (116)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/)
- [Cohere jobs: 119 open roles, hiring by role and location (2026-11-02)](https://tools.yukai.uk/hiring/company/cohere.com)
- [AI company Cohere, founded by U of T alumni, to receive up to $1.6 billion from Government of Canada | University of Toronto](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/ai-company-cohere-founded-u-t-alumni-receive-16-billion-government-canada)
- [Who Gets to Build the Frontier for AI](https://cohere.com/blog/who-gets-to-build-the-frontier-for-ai)
- [Canada’s Sovereign AI Triumvirate: What Cohere, CoreWeave, And Palantir Actually Are](https://www.b2bnn.com/2026/05/canadas-sovereign-ai-triumvirate-what-cohere-coreweave-and-palantir-actually-are/)