ecosystem / companies / cohere
Cohere logo

Cohere

Cohere is a Toronto company that builds large language models for businesses, offered through an API. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frost, it raised a US$40M Series A in 2021 and has grown into one of Canada's larger AI companies.

US$40MSeries A round announced on stage (Oct 2021)TechTO stage 2021-10-29 ↗

The people

Ivan ZhangCo-founder, Cohere · 1 TechTO talk
AG
Aidan GomezCo-founderprofile coming
NF
Nick FrostCo-founderprofile coming

Open roles via the TechTO Job Board

Working at Cohere

Browse open roles across the community on the TechTO Job Board — Canada’s most connected tech network. Cohere’s roles show up here whenever they post.

Open roles on the TechTO Job Board ↗Or their own careers page: cohere.com/careers ↗

Jobs live on jobs.techto.org — the only structured source. We link to it rather than scraping career sites, so the board is always the source of truth.

About

Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frost to provide natural-language models to developers and enterprises through an API. When Zhang spoke at TechTO in October 2021, the company had just raised a US$40M Series A led by Index Ventures and Section 32, with early backing from Radical Ventures, and was about to open its platform.

Backers

Radical Ventures (seed); Index Ventures and Section 32 led the Series A.

More from TechTO ×6

Quick answers

What is Cohere?

A Toronto company that builds large language models for businesses, offered through an API.

Who founded Cohere?

Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frost, in 2019.

Suggest an edit
Work here? Claim this page
Know someone who belongs here? Suggest a profile
Maintained by TechTO · facts sourced and dated · last reviewed Jul 23, 2026