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Cohere

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Cohere stands out as an enterprise-first model company, prioritizing retrieval, secure deployment, and business workflows over broad consumer reach.

Toronto, CanadaFounded 2019API accessWeekday review target

Editorial intelligence brief

Editorial focus

Weekday review target

Launched North 2 on October 5, 2026, an enterprise agent platform with memory, libraries, skills and flexible cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployment.

Focus: Enterprise language models, retrieval, and agent infrastructure

Latest funding

$600M

Series E final total · source-backed

Tracked funding

$1.5B

Sum of itemized funding events

Latest valuation

Not tracked

No source-backed record

Latest revenue

Not tracked

Growth lifecycle position

Editorially verified updates

What changed

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product update

Launched North 2 on October 5, 2026, an enterprise agent platform with memory, libraries, skills and flexible…

Launched North 2 on October 5, 2026, an enterprise agent platform with memory, libraries, skills and flexible cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployment.

Cohere · Read source ↗Added to map Oct 10, 2026
model release

Entered private beta for Compass Cloud on September 25, 2026 after releasing North Small Translate under a…

Entered private beta for Compass Cloud on September 25, 2026 after releasing North Small Translate under a non-commercial open-weight license and signing a regulatory-pending combination agreement with Aleph Alpha.

Cohere · Read source ↗Added to map Oct 10, 2026

External coverage of Cohere

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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.

Source-backed financial history

Funding and financial history

Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.

partial coverage · 5 records

Records

5

Sum of recorded funding

$1.5B

Coverage

partial

Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.

#1

Series A · $40M

Running tracked total: $40M

#2

Series B · $125M

Running tracked total: $165M

#3

Series C · $270M

Running tracked total: $435M

#4

Funding round · $500M

Running tracked total: $935M

#5

Series E final total · $600M

Running tracked total: $1.5B

Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.

3Funding

Series C · $270M

$270M Series C led by Inovia Capital, with NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce Ventures, DTCP, and others participating.

Cohere ↗ source for Series C $270M

Product surface

Products and model families

Recent models

Command A+North Mini CodeCohere TranscribeCommand A VisionNorth Small Translate

Products

NorthCohere APICompassCohere TranscribeCompass CloudNorth 2

Open weights

Yes

API access

Yes

Review target

Weekday

Market position

Lifecycle and strategic signals

Research

Preview

Growth

Deployment

Growth: Public access & scaling

Focus

Enterprise language models, retrieval, and agent infrastructure

Signals

EnterpriseRAGAPI

Taxonomy

Frontier LabsVertical + EnterpriseDeveloper tools

Competitive context

AnthropicMistral AIOpenAI

Infrastructure & distribution

Where Cohere sits in the AI stack

Infrastructure provider
01

Model layer

5 tracked model families

02

Access layer

Managed API + self-hostable weights

03

Market layer

Vertical + Enterprise

Public product surface

NorthCohere APICompassCohere TranscribeCompass CloudNorth 2

Stack signals

EnterpriseDeveloper toolsRAGAPI

This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.

Evidence trail

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