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Did Nick Frosst co-found Cohere?
Yes. Cohere's own About page, checked 2026-10-16, lists him as "Co-founder" next to Aidan Gomez (Co-founder and CEO) and Ivan Zhang (Co-founder), and says Cohere was founded in 2019 in Toronto. The Globe and Mail (2022-02-15) captions a photo "From left, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst and Aidan Gomez are the co-founders of Cohere," and its 2024-07-22 report on the US$500 million round states "Cohere was founded by Mr. Frosst, Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang."
What did Nick Frosst do before Cohere?
He worked under Geoffrey Hinton at Google. Cohere's About page, checked 2026-10-16, says he became Hinton's first employee at Google Brain's Toronto lab and that his research focused on capsule networks, adversarial examples and explainability; it also says he holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto. The Globe and Mail (2022-02-15) calls him "another ex-Google researcher who previously worked with Mr. Hinton," and he told BNN Bloomberg (2024-06-21): "I started my work here as a researcher in his lab."
Has Nick Frosst spoken at TechTO?
No. Co-founder Ivan Zhang did, at TechTO on 2021-10-29, in a talk about the importance of a founding team, days after Cohere announced its US$40 million Series A.
Where is Nick Frosst based, and what does he do now?
He is based in Toronto and remains a Cohere co-founder: Cohere's About page, checked 2026-10-16, lists him as "Co-founder" with no other title and says "Based in Toronto." Outside work he is the front man of Good Kid, an indie rock band formed at the University of Toronto in 2015 that TechCrunch (2024-09-15) reported had 2.3 million monthly Spotify listeners; The Peak (2026-02-24) says the band has played Lollapalooza.