- Companies
- Cohere
Cohere Revenue, Valuation, Funding & Investors
Cohere is valued at $36B as of August 2026. Cohere revenue was $240M, as disclosed with its September 2025 round.
Last Cohere valuation
$36B
Undisclosed stage · Aug 2026
Last Cohere funding round
$7B
Undisclosed stage · Aug 2026
Cohere revenue
$240M
Series D · Sep 2025
Key investors in Cohere
Radical Ventures
Alumni Ventures
Salesforce Ventures
Inovia Capital
NVIDIA
PSP Investments
About Cohere
Cohere is a Canadian artificial intelligence company headquartered in Toronto that builds large language models and enterprise AI products for regulated industries. It was founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst. Its products include the Command family of generative models, Embed and Rerank retrieval models, and the North platform for business use, which can run in private clouds, on premises or in isolated virtual private clouds. Customers come mainly from finance, healthcare, manufacturing, energy and the public sector. The company has offices in Toronto, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris and Seoul. It raised a US$500 million round at a US$6.8 billion valuation in August 2025 and extended it by US$100 million in September 2025. Cohere bought the Vancouver start-up Cognosys in May 2025 and the biopharma AI company Reliant AI in May 2026.
Founded
2019
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Usage-based
Revenue
$240M (Sep 2025)
Valuation
$36B (Aug 2026)
Cohere Valuation
Cohere is currently valued at $36B, based on its undisclosed-stage round in August 2026. Read the announcement ↗
The $7B round included Alumni Ventures.
Cohere's valuation has grown 16x from $2.2B at its Series C in June 2023 to $36B in August 2026, across 5 priced rounds.
Cohere valuation by funding round
Revenue multiple| Date | Stage | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | Undisclosed stage | $36B | - |
| Sep 2025 | Series D | $7B | 29.2x |
| Aug 2025 | Series D | $6.8B | 68.0x |
| Jul 2024 | Series D | $5.5B | - |
| Jun 2023 | Series C | $2.2B | - |
Cohere Revenue
Cohere's latest recorded revenue is $240M, as of its Series D in September 2025. At a $7B valuation, that implies a 29.2x revenue multiple.
Revenue grew from $13M in December 2023 to $240M in September 2025.
Cohere revenue by funding round
| Date | Revenue * | Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | $240M | $7B | 29.2x | Series D |
| Aug 2025 | $100M | $6.8B | 68.0x | Series D |
| Dec 2023 | $13M | - | - | Secondary |
* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.
Cohere Funding History
Cohere has raised a total of $8.5B across 7 funding rounds, plus 1 secondary share sale.
Cohere's first fundraising round was a $40M Series A in September 2021. The most recent completed round was a $7B undisclosed-stage round in August 2026.
Cohere funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | Undisclosed stage | Alumni Ventures | $7B | $36B | Schwarz Group led the initial close of Cohere's Series E funding round in October 2026, joined by new investors Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital and the Government of Canada, and by returning investors Inovia Capital, NVIDIA and Prosperity7 Ventures. The round targets up to CAD 7 billion and would represent a valuation of CAD 35.7 billion, which the company described as the largest private financing round ever undertaken by a Canadian technology company. Cohere said the Government of Canada's equity investment will help it scale from Canada and support Canadian jobs and computing infrastructure, and that the company is making commitments to Canada's sovereign AI ecosystem in return. The proceeds are meant to fund compute infrastructure, frontier models and full-stack AI products for enterprises and governments. Cohere is a Toronto-based provider of large language models and AI products for regulated industries and the public sector. It was founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. The company reported annual recurring revenue of roughly USD 240 million for 2025. |
| Sep 2025 | Series D | Business Development Bank of Canada (lead); Nexxus Capital Management (lead); NVIDIA; Salesforce Ventures; PSP Investments; CPP Investments; Radical Ventures; AMD Ventures; Inovia Capital; Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) | $100M | $7B | Cohere announced on 24 September 2025 that it had secured an additional US$100 million as a second close of the US$500 million round it first announced in August 2025 at a valuation of US$6.8 billion. The extension lifted the company's valuation to about US$7 billion. New investors in the close were the Business Development Bank of Canada and Nexxus Capital Management, joining existing round participants AMD Ventures, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, Inovia Capital, NVIDIA, PSP Investments, Radical Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Cohere said the funds would support its enterprise and sovereign AI work for public and private sector customers and its expansion across North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The company, founded in Toronto in 2019, develops large language models and AI products for regulated industries such as finance, healthcare and government. |
| Aug 2025 | Series D | Inovia Capital (lead); Radical Ventures (lead); NVIDIA; Salesforce Ventures; Palo Alto Capital; PSP Investments; AMD Ventures; Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) | $500M | $6.8B | Cohere, a Toronto-based AI scaleup founded in 2019 by former Google researchers, develops large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots and other AI applications for enterprises and governments, emphasizing privacy-first, cloud-agnostic, and secure solutions deployable on public clouds, private clouds, on-premises, or air-gapped configurations. The company announced an oversubscribed $500 million all-equity, all-primary funding round on August 14, 2025, led by Inovia Capital and Radical Ventures, with participation from AMD Ventures, NVIDIA, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), PSP Investments, Salesforce Ventures, Palo Alto Capital, and others, bringing total funding to about $1.5 billion. This round set a post-money valuation of $6.8 billion USD ($9.4 billion CAD), up 24% from the prior $5.5 billion valuation in its previous $500 million Series D in summer 2024. Cohere recently crossed $100 million USD in annualized revenue in May 2025, doubling from earlier in the year, with expectations to exceed $200 million by year-end 2025, though below prior forecasts and trailing competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. This growth follows $35 million annualized revenue pace as of March 2024. The company has expanded through partnerships with Oracle, Dell, RBC, Bell, Fujitsu, LG CNS, SAP, and Ensemble Health Partners across finance, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, energy, and public sectors, and launched North, a security-first agentic AI platform integrating models like Command A, Embed 4, and Rerank 3.5 for productivity gains. Alongside the funding, Cohere appointed Joelle Pineau, former Meta FAIR head, as Chief AI Officer to focus on North and hire researchers, and Francois Chadwick, ex-Uber CTO, as CFO, signaling preparations for potential IPO. Cohere competes with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in enterprise AI, positioning itself as a leader in customizable, secure models for business ROI amid growing demand. |
| Jul 2024 | Series D | PSP Investments (lead); NVIDIA; Salesforce Ventures; Export Development Canada; Fujitsu; Launchbay Capital; Cisco Investments; Alumni Ventures; AMD Ventures | $500M | $5.5B | Cohere is a Toronto-based enterprise AI company founded in 2019 by former Google researchers, specializing in large language models (LLMs) for secure, enterprise-focused applications including chatbots, embeddings, and AI agents, emphasizing private deployments to avoid infrastructure costs and achieve high gross margins of 70-80%. The company differentiates from OpenAI and Anthropic by prioritizing regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and government with data sovereignty and compliance features, serving clients such as Royal Bank of Canada, Thales Canada, Oracle, Fujitsu, and LG. In July 2024, Cohere raised $500 million in a round valuing the company at $5.5 billion post-money, more than doubling its prior $2.2 billion valuation from a $270 million raise in June 2023, with participation from Alumni Ventures, AMD Ventures, Cisco Investments, Export Development Canada, Fujitsu, Launchbay Capital, NVIDIA, PSP Investments, and Salesforce Ventures; PSP Investments and Alumni Ventures led. The funds support accelerated growth, technical team expansion to double headcount from 250, and development of data privacy-focused enterprise AI for global businesses. As of March 2024 near the round, Cohere generated $35 million in annualized revenue from hundreds of customers, up from $13 million end-2023; later metrics show $150 million ARR estimated in October 2025 at $7 billion valuation (46.7x multiple) and $240 million ARR for 2025 with 50%+ quarterly growth. Cohere is positioning for a potential IPO, targeting profitability by 2029, with a new CFO and focus on capital-efficient software licensing over compute-heavy services. |
| Dec 2023 | Secondary | Red Lions Capital | $8M | - | - |
| Jun 2023 | Series C | Inovia Capital (lead); Oracle; Alumni Ventures | $270M | $2.2B | Cohere, a Toronto-based AI company founded in 2019 by former Google researchers, develops large language models (LLMs) for enterprise applications, including secure, private deployments for regulated sectors like banking and government. The company differentiates itself from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic by focusing exclusively on enterprise AI solutions with data hosting options. In June 2023, Cohere raised $270 million in its Series C funding round at a post-money valuation of $2.2 billion, with investors including Inovia Capital, Oracle, Salesforce, and Nvidia. Later metrics show significant acceleration, with reports of $22 million annualized run rate in March 2024 and $240 million ARR in 2025, exceeding internal targets amid 50%+ quarter-over-quarter growth and 70% gross margins. The company has continued raising capital post-2023, including a $500 million Series D in July 2024 at $5.5 billion valuation, followed by a 2025 round reaching $6.8-7 billion. Cohere serves major clients like RBC, Oracle, Fujitsu, and LG with multi-year contracts, primarily through private deployments generating predictable revenue. CEO Aidan Gomez has discussed potential IPO plans and profitability by 2029. |
| Feb 2022 | Series B | Tiger Global (lead); Pieter Abbeel; Raquel Urtasun; Index Ventures; Fei-Fei Li; Geoffrey Hinton; S32; Radical Ventures | $125M | - | Cohere announced on 15 February 2022 that it had completed a US$125 million Series B financing round led by Tiger Global. Existing investors Radical Ventures, Index Ventures and Section 32 also contributed to the round, which followed the company's US$40 million Series A of September 2021. Cohere said it would use the capital to develop its platform, expand its team and open a new office in Palo Alto, California. The company was founded in 2019 in Toronto by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst and provides large language models through an API that businesses use to build applications for text understanding and generation. The Series B was among the largest early financings for a Canadian artificial intelligence company at the time. |
| Sep 2021 | Series A | Index Ventures (lead); Pieter Abbeel; Raquel Urtasun; Fei-Fei Li; Geoffrey Hinton; S Ventures; S32; Radical Ventures | $40M | - | Cohere, a Toronto-based AI company founded in 2019 by former Google Brain researchers and a Cortex engineer, emerged from stealth in May 2021 to provide cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) models via an API. The models, trained on hundreds of millions of web pages, enable businesses to deploy state-of-the-art NLP for understanding meaning, sentiment, and tone without needing supercomputing infrastructure or AI expertise. Cohere emphasizes safe AI deployment, supported by an external Responsibility Council. On September 7, 2021, Cohere announced a $40 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Section 32, returning investor Radical Ventures, and prominent AI experts including Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and Raquel Urtasun. Index Ventures partner Mike Volpi joined the board. The capital was earmarked to expand the team and accelerate platform adoption globally. Cohere reported $2.3 million in revenue for 2021, near the Series A timing, with growth to $7 million in 2022 and $13 million in 2023. The company has since raised nearly $970 million total, reaching valuations up to $6.8 billion in later rounds. |
Who has invested in Cohere?
26 investors have backed Cohere across its funding rounds, including Radical Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Inovia Capital, NVIDIA and PSP Investments.
Lead investors include Business Development Bank of Canada, Nexxus Capital Management, Inovia Capital, Radical Ventures, PSP Investments and 2 other investors.
Cohere Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Lead | Sep 2021 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Jul 2024 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Jul 2024 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Jul 2024 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Jun 2023 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Jul 2024 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Jun 2023 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2021 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Sep 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2021 | ||
This data is available for Pro users. Sign up to see all 26 Cohere investors. Start Free Trial | ||||
Benchmark 350K+ Funding Rounds and Disclosed VC Valuation Multiples
Sign up to see data on 350K+ funding rounds and disclosed revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples, from seed, through growth stage, to pre-IPO.
Start Free TrialAcquisitions by Cohere
Cohere has acquired 4 companies to date.
Last acquisition by Cohere was on October 15th 2026. Cohere acquired AISLE for undisclosed valuation.
Latest Acquisitions by Cohere
| Description | AISLE is a cybersecurity company that provides AI-native vulnerability management. Its autonomous system discovers vulnerabilities in code, triages them by business impact, generates fixes and verifies each one before merge, keeping humans in the loop. The platform can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises or fully air-gapped, and the company offers enterprise and open-source offerings, the latter aimed at securing widely used critical code. AISLE has announced a partnership with Cohere to advance sovereign AI cybersecurity. The company is based in Prague, Czech Republic, and was founded in 2024. | Reliant AI is a San Francisco-based provider of AI-powered data analytics software for business intelligence. The platform automates insights from sales, marketing, and operations data using machine learning models. It integrates with CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot, delivering predictive analytics and dashboards for enterprises in tech and finance sectors. | Aleph Alpha is a Heidelberg, Germany-headquartered AI company developing generative models for enterprises and governments. Its solutions support multimodal large language models like Luminous, enabling custom intelligent products in sectors including defense, energy, and manufacturing. Founded in 2019, it serves clients through Heidelberg's AI research hub. | - |
| HQ Country | ||||
| HQ City | Prague | Montreal | Heidelberg | Vancouver |
| Deal Date | 15 Oct 2026 | 18 May 2026 | 23 Apr 2026 | 16 May 2025 |
| Valuation | undisclosed | undisclosed | undisclosed | undisclosed |
| EV/Revenue | ||||
| EV/EBITDA | ||||
This data is available for Pro users. Sign up to see all Cohere acquisitions and their M&A valuation multiples. Start Free Trial | ||||
Investments by Cohere
Cohere has invested in 1 company to date.
Latest investment by Cohere was on April 12th 2026. Cohere invested in Helical in their $10M Seed round.
Latest Investments by Cohere
| Description | Helical is a biotechnology firm developing AI foundation models for pharmaceutical applications, headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 2023, it processes multimodal drug discovery data to accelerate target identification and molecule design for partners in oncology and rare diseases. |
| HQ Country | |
| HQ City | Luxembourg |
| Deal Date | 12 Apr 2026 |
| Round | Seed |
| Raised | $10M |
| Investors | Frst; Clément Delangue; redalpine; Mario Götze; BoxGroup; Aidan Gomez; Gradient |
| Valuation | undisclosed |
| EV/Revenue | |
| EV/EBITDA | |
This data is available for Pro users. Sign up to see all Cohere investments and their VC round multiples. Start Free Trial | |
Cohere Competitors
Cohere competitors include listed companies like Z.ai and IonQ, and private ones like Moonshot AI, Safe Superintelligence, Prometheus and Cognition.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | $200M | - | $35B | - | ||
| Private | - | - | $32B | - | ||
| Private | - | - | $41B | - | ||
| Publicly listed | $109M | ($663M) | $30B | 36.3x | ||
| Private | $900M | - | $48B | 53.3x | ||
| Publicly listed | $130M | ($531M) | $13B | 27.5x |
Cohere Public Comps
Cohere is still privately-owned, but its public comps include Z.ai, IonQ, MiniMax Group, Presight AI, Ncino, Affle 3i, C3.ai, Haizhi, Snowflake and Palantir.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $109M | ($663M) | 273.4x | 36.3x | (44.9x) | (44.9x) | |||
| $130M | ($531M) | 83.4x | 27.5x | (20.4x) | (26.4x) | |||
| $79M | ($1.9B) | 77.1x | - | (3.2x) | - | |||
| $825M | $214M | 6.0x | 4.9x | 23.0x | 19.1x | |||
| $595M | $65M | 4.5x | 4.2x | 41.1x | 16.1x | |||
| $285M | $67M | 6.3x | 5.6x | 26.7x | 24.7x | |||
| $250M | ($484M) | 5.0x | 5.3x | (2.6x) | (7.6x) | |||
| $93M | ($30M) | 16.4x | 11.5x | (51.3x) | (51.7x) | |||
This data is available for Pro users. Sign up to see all Cohere competitors and their valuation data. Start Free Trial | ||||||||
Common questions about Cohere
| When was Cohere founded? | Cohere was founded in 2019. |
| Where is Cohere headquartered? | Cohere is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. |
| Is Cohere publicly listed? | No, Cohere is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Cohere's valuation? | Cohere was last valued at $36B in its undisclosed-stage round in August 2026. |
| How much funding has Cohere raised? | Cohere has raised $8.5B across 7 funding rounds. |
| What was Cohere's last funding round? | Cohere's last funding round was a $7B undisclosed-stage round in August 2026. |
| Who are Cohere's investors? | Cohere's investors include Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, PSP Investments, Alumni Ventures, AMD Ventures, Inovia Capital, Pieter Abbeel, Raquel Urtasun, Index Ventures and 16 others. |
| What is Cohere's revenue? | Cohere's latest recorded revenue is $240M (September 2025). |
| What is Cohere's revenue multiple? | Cohere's latest valuation implies a 29.2x revenue multiple ($7B valuation on $240M of revenue). |
| Which companies are comparable to Cohere? | Companies comparable to Cohere include Moonshot AI, Safe Superintelligence, Prometheus, Z.ai, Cognition and IonQ. |
| How many companies has Cohere acquired? | Cohere has acquired 4 companies, including AISLE, Reliant AI, Aleph Alpha and Cognosys. |
| How many companies has Cohere invested in? | Cohere has invested in 1 company, including Helical. |
| What was Cohere's last investment? | In April 2026, Cohere invested in Helical's $10M seed round alongside Frst, Clément Delangue, redalpine and 4 other investors. |
See companies similar to Cohere
Start Your
Free Trial Today
Try Multiples for free for 3 days. Got questions or need a demo? Schedule a call with us below.




