Cohere

Cohere is an enterprise AI platform founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, who were co-authors of the original Transformer paper Attention Is All You Need. The company builds large language models specifically designed for enterprise use cases including search, classification, and retrieval augmented generation. Cohere has raised over $940 million in funding at a $5.5 billion valuation from investors including Inovia Capital, Index Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. The company is headquartered in Toronto with approximately 400 employees. Cohere Command R+ is optimized for retrieval augmented generation and multilingual tasks, competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market. Major customers include Oracle, Salesforce, and LivePerson. Cohere differentiates itself by offering deployment flexibility including on-premise and private cloud options for data-sensitive enterprises.