Tech Company Financing Transactions
Cohere Funding Round
Cohere secured a $4.5 billion Series E funding round on 10/29/2026. Investors included Schwarz Group, Bell Ventures and Bullhound Capital.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
10/29/2026
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$4,490,000,000
Round
Series E
Investors
Proceeds Purpose
Cohere will use the funding to accelerate its artificial intelligence model development and product roadmap, build advanced full-stack AI solutions for regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and government, and invest in long-term computing infrastructure required to train frontier-level enterprise AI models. The proceeds will also support the expansion of its global operations across North America, EMEA and APAC, strengthen its sovereign AI capabilities, and meet growing demand from enterprise and government customers for secure, private and independently deployable AI solutions.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Software
Mailing Address
171 John Street 200
Toronto, ON, M5T 1X3
Canada
Toronto, ON, M5T 1X3
Canada
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Overview
Cohere empowers every developer and enterprise to build amazing products and capture true business value with language AI. At Cohere, we believe that the union of research and product will realize a world where technology commands language in a way that's as compelling and coherent as ourselves. We live at the forefront of ML/AI research to bring the latest advancements in language AI to our platform.
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Aidan Gomez
Chief Scientific Officer
Phil Blunsom
Chief Technical Officer
Sara Hooker
Co-Founder
Nick Frosst
Co-Founder
Ivan Zhang
President
Martin Kon
VP - Engineering
Saurabh Baji
VP - Engineering
Rodrigue Hajjar
VP - Finance
Laura Moss
VP - Human Resources
Nora Beatty
VP - Marketing
Morgan Norman
VP - Product Management
Abhishek Sinha
VP - Product Management
Jaron Waldman
VP - Sales
Meini Heuberger
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