Cohere Funding History

Cohere develops the Command family of large language models and tools that let companies ground model responses in retrieved information.

Company Overview

  • Large Language Models
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Cohere Funding Timeline

  1. Oct 29, 2026

    Series E (Initial Close; Round Remains Open)

    Initial close; targeting up to CAD 7 billion

    Led by Schwarz Group.

    Source · prnewswire.com ↗
  2. Aug 15, 2025

    Funding Round

    US$500 million

    Led by Radical Ventures.

    Source · cohere.com ↗
  3. Jul 22, 2024

    Series D

    US$500 million

    Led by PSP Investments.

    Source · en.wikipedia.org ↗
  4. Jun 8, 2023

    Series C

    US$270 million

    Led by Inovia Capital.

    Source · en.wikipedia.org ↗
  5. Feb 16, 2022

    Series B

    US$125 million

    Led by Tiger Global.

    Source · en.wikipedia.org ↗
  6. Sep 7, 2021

  7. Nov 15, 2020

Cohere Founding Team

  • Aidan Gomez

    Co-founder of Cohere.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-05
  • Nick Frosst

    Co-founder of Cohere.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-05
  • Ivan Zhang

    Co-founder of Cohere.

    Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-05

Cohere Products

Cohere Command

Cohere's enterprise language model family optimized for retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling and workloads over private enterprise data, offered via API and private deployment options.

Official Website ↗
Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14

Cohere Embed

Cohere's enterprise retrieval embedding family with query/document input types, multilingual support and configurable output dimensions, extended to image and mixed inputs in Embed v4.

Official Website ↗
Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-17
API Access
Yes - via the Cohere API and cloud channels(2026-10-17)
Modalities
Text; image and mixed content in Embed v4(2026-10-17)

Sources:docs.cohere.com