About

Where enterprise AI meets real-world purpose


Cohere builds foundational models and AI solutions that help teams turn everyday effort into extraordinary impact.

Our Mission

We believe AI’s highest purpose is to enhance human wellbeing. We’re committed to realizing that potential by empowering businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress that reaches everyone.
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Our story

From Toronto startup to enterprise AI

2019

Foundations

Cohere was founded in 2019 in Toronto with a bold vision: to do whatever it takes to scale intelligence to serve humanity.

Since then, we’ve remained focused on building enterprise AI that enhances human judgment, accelerates execution, and extends what individuals and teams can achieve on their own.

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2021 – 2024

Early growth

Between 2021 and 2024, we secured four major funding rounds (Series A through D), raising nearly $1 billion.

This support has enabled us to scale our teams, expand globally, and continually develop cutting-edge models that power practical AI applications for the world’s leading enterprises.

2022

Research focus

In 2022, we launched Cohere Labs, our open science initiative for solving complex machine learning problems.

Today, Cohere Labs has 4,500+ community members and has published over 100 research papers.

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2025 – present

Agentic AI for the enterprise

In 2025, we launched North, our turnkey AI platform for workplace productivity.

North’s agentic capabilities and advanced retrieval allow teams to automate routine tasks, accelerate complex workflows, and surface insights securely grounded in enterprise data.

Geoffrey Hinton
2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics
University Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, University of Toronto

Very large language models are now giving computers a much better understanding of human communication. The team at Cohere is building technology that will make this revolution in natural language understanding much more widely available.

Meet our team

Founders

Co-founder and CEO

Co-founder

Co-founder

Executive team

  • Joelle Pineau

    Chief AI Officer

  • Francois Chadwick

    Chief Financial Officer

  • Phil Blunsom

    Chief Technology Officer

  • Andrew Chang

    VP, APAC

  • Eric Hu

    VP, Design

  • Nils Reimers

    VP, Embeddings & Search

  • Rod Hajjar

    VP, Engineering

  • Autumn Moulder

    VP, Engineering

  • Laura Moss

    VP, Finance

  • Melika Carroll

    VP, Government Affairs & Public Policy

  • Kosta Starostin

    VP, Legal

  • Nora Beatty

    VP, People Operations

Born in Canada 🇨🇦
Building worldwide

Toronto

New York

New York

London

London

San Francisco

San Francisco

Montreal

Montreal

Paris

Paris

Seoul

Seoul

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