Founders / Ivan Zhang
Ivan Zhang
Ivan Zhang is a co-founder of Cohere, a foundation model company based in Toronto. Ivan Zhang co-founded Cohere with Nick Frosst and Aidan Gomez. Cohere had raised C$9.1B across 8 rounds as of November 2026, most recently a C$7B Series E in October 2026 led by Schwarz Group. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Cohere in November 2026.
Co-founder of Cohere.
Cohere
Enterprise foundation models and sovereign AI (North platform).
- Role
- Co-founder
- HQ
- Toronto, ON
- Founded
- 2019
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- C$9.1B
- Latest round
- Series E, Oct 29, 2026
- Website
- cohere.com
Co-founders: Nick Frosst, Aidan Gomez
Investors: Schwarz Group, Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital, PSP Investments, SAP, Tiger Global, Index Ventures, Bell Ventures, and 24 more
In the newsletter
- CanadianAI: With Cohere’s C$7B, Canadian AI funding in 2026 is on pace to top the last three years combinedNov 3, 2026
- CanadianAI: Dayforce buys Ribbon AI, and meet Steel, the Toronto-built browser for AI agents with 35M sessionsOct 27, 2026
- CanadianAI: Anthropic signs on for a $10B data centre in Cape Breton, and Tenstorrent raises US$1.5BOct 20, 2026
- CanadianAI: Sequoia leads a US$60M round for Toronto-built Mecka, and OSFI eyes AI rules for banksOct 13, 2026
- CanadianAI: Canada wants in on Europe’s AI contracts, and Carney picks his AI advisersOct 6, 2026
- CanadianAI: OpenAI backs Biossil at US$1B, and B.C. sues OpenAI over Tumbler RidgeSep 29, 2026
- CanadianAI: $300M for Bengio’s LawZero and Canada’s largest venture fund everSep 22, 2026
- CanadianAI: $50B AI data centre in Saskatchewan and five AI startups raiseSep 15, 2026
- CanadianAI: Six AI startups got funded this week, and Ottawa's data centre principlesSep 8, 2026
- CanadianAI: The Big Six show their AI math, and Ottawa poaches 48 researchers from US schoolsSep 1, 2026
- CanadianAI: One of Canada's largest-ever seed rounds, and Anthropic wants gigawatts in CanadaAug 25, 2026
- CanadianAI: AMD buys Taalas, and Alberta pitches data centres as digital refineriesAug 11, 2026
- CanadianAI: A month of Canadian AI in one issue, an AI takes the CEO seatAug 4, 2026
- CanadianAI: The State of Canadian AI, H1 2026Jul 28, 2026
- CanadianAI:A US$220M contract for sovereign AI, and Qualcomm circles a Toronto companyJun 23, 2026
- CanadianAI: Two unicorns in a week, and Ottawa finally starts writing the rulesJun 16, 2026
- CanadianAI: Calgary, Waterloo, Toronto, Montréal. A cross-country week of AI raises, two Canadian flags at CVPR, and a national strategy that finally landed.Jun 9, 2026
- Canadian AI: Highlights from Toronto Tech Week and a record CANSEC, big raises from Saris and Lastwall, and Sutton on the limits of generative AI."Jun 2, 2026
- Canadian AI: Two more VC funds, $57M from the gov't to AI startups and research, and Cohere had another big week.May 26, 2026
- Canadian AI: Two acquisitions in a week, Cohere brands the EY Centre, and Ottawa reveals six AI pillarsMay 5, 2026
- Canadian AI: Cohere goes transatlantic, BDC opens a $500M AI loan window, and Manitoba moves on chatbots.Apr 28, 2026
- Canadian AI: Ottawa's $890M supercomputer bid, a $92M chip exit, and AI that reads cancer cellsApr 21, 2026
- Canadian AI: Cohere eyes a German merger, and a Toronto 911 AI startup goes stealth-to-exit in under a year.Apr 14, 2026
- Canadian AI: Cohere's opensource voice model tops the leaderboard, and governments open the chequebookMar 31, 2026
- Canadian AI: $6.5B for a Calgary cooling company, another Vancouver acquisition and Canada's largest data centre to begin constructionMar 24, 2026
- Canadian AI: Taalas and LawZero raising $100M+ eachFeb 24, 2026
- Canadian AI: Apple Goes Shopping in WaterlooFeb 16, 2026
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Data as of November 10, 2026.