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Regional ecosystem
Cohere is one of 61 verified robotics companies in Canada →
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundAug 2025 round post-money
Key facts
Founded
Status
Type
Enterprise language models
Applied AI research
Series E target (company-stated, Oct 2026)
Government of Canada terms (government-stated)
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
1
Web sources
12
14 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Cohere has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (5)
- Aidan Gomez CEO & Co-founder
- Nick Frosst Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Ivan Zhang Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Joelle Pineau Chief AI Officersince 2025-08-14secondary-verified
- Francois Chadwick Chief Financial Officersince 2025-08-14secondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Nick Frosstcofounderfounded 2019-07-01
- Ivan Zhangcofounderfounded 2019-07-01
- Aidan Gomez
Safety record
No incidents on record for Cohere.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Cohere in third-party press
Startup Funding News Today, October 30, 2026: Kalshi, Cohere, Bites, Dulo, Opentrons, Firehawk Defense, Wabi & More
Cohere to acquire AISLE to advance cyber-resilient sovereign AI
Cohere Flags Alibaba’s Qwen Model for Attempted Upload to Beijing Server During Security Test
Mentioned on (9)
Registry pages whose text names Cohere.
Companies (4)
People (5)
Aidan Gomez, Francois Chadwick, Joelle Pineau, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst
Partnerships
6 total · 6 operating
Every company Cohere has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with BUZZ HPCoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1AMD1× joint
- 2AWS1× joint30 total
- 3Bell Canada1× joint1 total
- 4BUZZ HPC1× joint1 total
- 5Google1× joint19 total
- 6NVIDIA1× joint132 total
All 6 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Cohere x SAPwithSAPtechnology—operating
- Cohere x AMDwithAMDtechnology—operating
- cohere x nvidiawithNVIDIA132technology—operating
- cohere x awswithAWS30technology—operating
- cohere x googlewithGoogle19technology—operating
- deployment2026-06-18announcedoperating
Funding rounds (3)
Cohere’s 2 disclosed rounds, $1.0B in total, oldest to newest.
- Series E (initial close)2026-10-29
Investors: Schwarz Group (lead), Government of Canada, Bell (follow), Bullhound Capital (follow), iNovia Capital (follow), Nvidia (strategic), Prosperity7 Ventures (follow)
- Aug 2025 round2025-08-14
$500M · $6.8B post
Investors: Radical Ventures (co_lead), iNovia Capital (co_lead), AMD Ventures, Nvidia, PSP Investments, Salesforce Ventures
- Series D2024-07-22
$500M(reported) · $5.5B post
Investors: PSP Investments (lead), Cisco Investments (strategic), Fujitsu (strategic), AMD Ventures, Export Development Canada (EDC)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 9, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (14)
- https://cohere.com
- https://cohere.com/command
- https://cohere.com/research
- https://cohere.com/about
- https://cohere.com/about
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cohere-hits-a-6-8b-valuation-as-investors-amd-nvidia-and-salesforce-double-down/ · 2025-08-14
- https://www.investpsp.com/en/news/fresh-funding-enables-cohere-to-accelerate-its-global-expansion-and-build-the-next-generation-of-secure-enterprise-and-sovereign-ai-solutions/ · 2025-08-14
- https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/22/ai-model-developer-startup-cohere-raises-500m-5-5b-valuation/ · 2024-07-22
- https://www.hivedigitaltechnologies.com/news/hives-buzz-hpc-closes-usd-220-million-sovereign-ai-gpu-contract-with-bell-ai-fabric-for-cohere-inc/ · 2026-06-18
- https://www.hivedigitaltechnologies.com/news/hives-buzz-hpc-secures-approximately-129-million-at-90-fixed-rate-financing-at-80-loan-to-cost-to-expand-sovereign-ai-infrastructure/ · 2026-10-27
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cohere-announces-series-e-fundraise-targeting-cad-7-billion-to-meet-surging-global-demand-for-secure-sovereign-ai-302923951.html · 2026-10-29
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-buys-stake-in-cohere-357-billion-in-new-financing/ · 2026-10-29
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-cohere-ai-investment-9.7401367 · 2026-10-29
- https://betakit.com/canada-to-invest-up-to-1-6-billion-in-ai-firm-cohere/ · 2026-10-29
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 14 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-31
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-31
Sources by quality tier
- 12
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Cohere.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Cohere from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Startup Funding News Today, October 30, 2026: Kalshi, Cohere, Bites, Dulo, Opentrons, Firehawk Defense, Wabi & More
More than $1.77 billion in newly announced venture-equity financing flowed into financial technology, artificial intelligence, defense manufacturing, battery materials, and…
Cohere to acquire AISLE to advance cyber-resilient sovereign AI
Cohere Flags Alibaba’s Qwen Model for Attempted Upload to Beijing Server During Security Test
Alibaba’s Qwen AI Found Trying to Upload on Chinese Cloud Server
How Cohere Targets Agentic AI Security via AISLE Acquisition
Cohere To Acquire AISLE And Launch Cohere Cyber For Sovereign AI Security
Why is Cohere Acquiring Agentic AI Cybersecurity firm AISLE?
Cohere to acquire AISLE to advance cyber-resilient sovereign AI
Canadian AI lab Cohere signs letter of intent to buy AISLE
Cohere and AISLE sign letter of intent to advance cyber-resilient sovereign AI
AI Startup Cohere Moves to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm AISLE
Cohere Signs LOI to Buy AI Security Firm AISLE [2026]
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/cohere.md
- RSS feed: /companies/cohere/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/03c91837-79fe-480a-9c8f-d82383c5b587
- Revision history: /companies/cohere/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious60/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Cohere against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $1.0B raised. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 10, 2026