Cohere

Cohere builds large language models and AI tooling aimed specifically at enterprises, with an emphasis on data security, private deployment, and retrieval-augmented generation for business use cases. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, the company offers foundation models, embeddings, and its North agent platform for building AI assistants and agents inside companies. It maintains dual headquarters in Toronto and San Francisco with significant offices in London and New York. Its most recent Series D of roughly $500M valued the company around $7B. Investors include Radical Ventures, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, and Index Ventures.