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Canada's enterprise LLM champion - private, sovereign AI built on the Command family
HQ: Toronto, Canada (dual base San Francisco) | Founded: 2019 | Employees: ~450+ (2025); LinkedIn ~700-800 (2026, unverified) | Stage: Private; ~$7B (Sep 2025); ~$20B combined pending Aleph Alpha merger (Apr 2026) | Website: https://cohere.com
Cohere was founded in July 2019 in Toronto by Aidan Gomez (Transformer paper co-author, ex-Google Brain), Nick Frosst, and Ivan Zhang to build enterprise LLMs that run in the customer's own environment. Its Command model family (Command R, R+, Command A 111B with 256K context, Command A+, Command A Vision/Reasoning/Translate), Embed + Rerank 3.5 retrieval stack, and the North secure-agent workspace (GA Aug 2025) serve Oracle, RBC, Dell, LG, Fujitsu, PSIM, and Notion. Funding: ~$40M Series A (Sep 2021), $125M Series A1 (Dec 2021), $270M Series C at ~$2.2B (Jun 2023), $500M Series D at $5.5B (Jul 2024), $500M at $6.8B (Aug 2025), and a $100M close at $7B (Sep 2025) - roughly $1.6B total - plus a €500M Schwarz Group commitment to lead its Series E alongside the April 2026 Aleph Alpha acquisit
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