Model Tools & Dev PlatformSeries EInfraℹCohere
Organizations can adopt advanced AI while retaining control over deployment, data access, and governance in their own cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
Company snapshot
- Stage
- Series E
- Funding
- Series E (initial close) · Oct 29, 2026
- Status
- published
- Updated
- Nov 8, 2026
- Views
- Category
- Model Tools & Dev Platform
- Website
- cohere.com
What they're building
Organizations can adopt advanced AI while retaining control over deployment, data access, and governance in their own cloud or on-premises infrastructure. Cohere builds enterprise AI models and platforms for search, retrieval, and agents, with private deployments that keep institutional data within customer-controlled environments.
Founders
Aidan Gomez
Co-founder
Ivan Zhang
Co-founder
Nicholas Frosst
Co-founder
Foundation model usage
Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.
- Inferred architecture
- Agentic loops, Batch document processing, Code generation
- Estimated model demand
- High intensity
NYC footprint
- NYC office
- 1 Little West 12th Street, Floor 4, New York, NY 10014
Funding
Latest funding: Series E (initial close) · Oct 29, 2026. Lead investor: Schwarz Group.
Sources & location evidence
Open research desk ↗Profile source review: 2026-11-04. Official October 29, 2026 founder post announces the initial close of Series E targeting up to CAD $7B. The target is not the amount closed; funding_amount and total_raised remain null. Planned acquisitions and structured financing commitments are not treated as completed acquisitions or cash raised. Founders are explicitly identified in the official announcement. New York is an office, not a global-HQ claim. Copy is synthesized from cited first-party messaging; no independent performance validation is implied.
- https://cohere.com/ ↗
- https://cohere.com/about ↗
- https://cohere.com/careers ↗
- https://cohere.com/blog/who-gets-to-build-the-frontier-for-ai ↗
- https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-new-york-office ↗
- https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ANSWER-IN-Advance-Local-Media-LLC-et-al-v.-Cohere-Inc.-Entry-69.pdf ↗
Meatpacking District, Manhattan · verified office
1 Little West 12th Street, Floor 4, New York, NY 10014. Address is an explicit company admission in its December 5, 2025 court answer, PDF page 10, paragraph 27, including personnel employed at this location. It is used as physical-office evidence, not merely as a service or legal-notice address, and not based on plaintiffs’ allegations. Current company careers confirms its New York office, while the March 2024 official opening supplies the Meatpacking District label. The current street was not republished on the reviewed careers page, so preserve the specific December 2025 evidence date.
Cohere Answer, Advance Local Media LLC et al. v. Cohere Inc., Document 69 ↗Source checked 2026-11-04 · original source 2025-12-05
Notes
Cohere is tagged infra based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.
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