Cohere

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company.

Latest funding

$500M Series B+ · August 14, 2025

Led by Radical Ventures · Source: cohere.com

Funding history ↓

Website: cohere.com.

X: @cohere · 126,898 followers.

LinkedIn: cohere-ai.

Categories: Foundation models and research Cybersecurity Developer tools and cloud.

Sectors: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Foundational AI, Generative AI, Information Technology, Machine Learning.

Stage: Series B+.

Based in: Toronto, Canada.

Founded: 2019.

Last round: Aug 14, 2025 · 458 days ago.

Headcount: 251–500 employees.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 29, 2026.

Signals

X account@cohere · created Nov 10, 2020 (6 years old) · 126,898 followers

Website registeredMar 7, 2000 (26 years old)

About Cohere

We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises.

Funding rounds

Date	Round	Amount	Lead	Source
Aug 14, 2025	Series B+	$500M	RRadical Ventures	cohere.com

Timeline

November 10, 2020
X account created
March 7, 2000
Website created

Founders and team

AG
Aidan Gomez Co-founder and CEO

LinkedIn · source: cohere.com
IZ
Ivan Zhang Co-founder

LinkedIn · source: cohere.com
NF
Nick Frosst Co-founder

@nickfrosst · LinkedIn · source: cohere.com
PB
Phil Blunsom CTO
FC
Francois Chadwick Chief Financial Officer
JP
Joëlle Pineau Chief AI Officer
LM
Laura Moss SVP of Finance
NB
Nora Beatty SVP of People Operations

Acquisitions

Acquired company	Price	Announced
CCubic	Not disclosed	Nov 13, 2026 · BetaKit
AAISLE	Not disclosed	Oct 15, 2026 · Global Banking & Finance Review
RReliant AI	Not disclosed	May 19, 2026 · The Globe and Mail
AAleph Alpha	Not disclosed	Apr 24, 2026 · MSN
CCognosys	Not disclosed	May 16, 2025 · vantechjournal.com

Investors

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Sources and API

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