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Cohere

Foundation Models

Enterprise AI company selling the North agent platform and its own Command, Embed, Rerank and Transcribe models, deployable in a customer's private environment.

Total funding$1.6B

Valuation$7B

Employees500

Founded2019

HeadquartersToronto, Canada

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• North Application

  Workplace assistant that runs agents over a company's internal documents and tools, deployable in the customer's own environment.

• Cohere Platform Model API Sold on its own

  Hosted API for Cohere's generation, embedding and reranking models, billed per token.

• Model Vault Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Fully managed, network-isolated SaaS inference platform for serving Cohere's embedding, reranking and generative models in production, with auto-scaling and no rate limits.

Inside Cohere

• Compass Application Included with the parent

  An enterprise search and discovery system over a company's own scattered data, sold as a configured end-to-end product rather than as a raw retrieval API.

• Parse API service Included with the parent

  Document parsing that turns enterprise documents, tables and images into structured data for search and agents to consume.

Inside North

• North Automations Application Included with the parent

  Workflow-orchestration layer inside Cohere North that lets employees describe a goal in plain language and turns it into a coordinated, multi-model, multi-step automation with approval checkpoints and usage tracking.

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 24 Sep 2025

"Cohere has raised about $1.6 billion USD to date and grown to 450 employees." Directly states the total (the prior note's 'as_of 2025-08' predated the Sept 2025 $100M second close that this figure already reflects); value unchanged.

Valuation

News reporting · 24 Sep 2025

The previously cited quote ("Toronto-based Cohere's $7 billion pre-deal valuation") is not on the 2026-04-25 article it was attached to -- that piece instead says "Last valued at $6.8 billion." The $7B figure itself is right, sourced to TechCrunch's own 2025-09-24 piece ("bumping its valuation to $7 billion").

Employees

News reporting · Apr 2026

Forbes company profile for Cohere, "Employees" stated as of April 2026. Read 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Revenue (ARR)

News reporting · 25 Apr 2026

"While Cohere reported $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, Aleph Alpha had previously generated little revenue."

Description

Official documentation · 24 Sep 2026

"North by Cohere is a complete agentic enterprise AI platform that you control and deploy on your terms." Cohere now leads with North, not generic language models.

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