Cohere
Cohere provides a complete agentic enterprise AI platform, North, that organizations can deploy on their own terms—whether in a private VPC, on-premises, or through a dedicated model inference service. The platform includes a suite of models for generation, retrieval optimization, and semantic representation, with recent releases like Rerank 5 offering advanced search capabilities and reduced token costs. Cohere serves enterprises and public sector organizations with strict data governance requirements, such as financial services, healthcare, and government.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Enterprise Software
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$1.5BRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 7 rounds
+23Undisclosed · Series E
Announced Oct 2026
Disclosed cumulative: $1.5B
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Enterprises face significant challenges deploying AI in a way that meets strict security, privacy, and compliance requirements. Using public AI services can expose sensitive data, while building and maintaining in-house AI infrastructure is complex and costly, making it difficult for organizations to safely and effectively leverage the power of large language models.
Solution
Cohere offers North, a complete agentic enterprise AI platform that gives businesses control over their AI deployment. The platform allows organizations to deploy models within their own virtual private cloud (VPC) or on-premises, ensuring data privacy and security. North includes a suite of models for various tasks, such as the Command family for generation, Rerank for retrieval optimization, and Embed for semantic representation. This platform is designed to be flexible, allowing companies to customize AI to their specific needs while maintaining compliance with industry-certified security standards.
Target Audience
Cohere's primary customers are large enterprises and public sector organizations in industries with strict data governance requirements, including financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and government. The platform is also designed for developers and technology teams who need to build and deploy AI applications with control and security.
Features
- North platform: A complete agentic enterprise AI platform for building and deploying AI agents.
- Model Vault: A dedicated model inference platform providing fully-isolated, performant inference with SaaS simplicity.
- Private Deployments: Options for on-premises or isolated VPC deployments to ensure data security.
- Command models: Generative language models for a variety of business tasks.
- Rerank 5: Advanced retrieval optimization models that improve search accuracy and reduce LLM token costs, with a new "Context Focus" feature that pinpoints the most relevant passages within documents.
- Embed 5: A family of frontier embedding models for semantic representation.
- Parse: A document parsing model for extracting information from complex documents.
- Transcribe: A speech recognition model for converting audio to text.