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About
At twenty, as a Google Brain intern, Aidan Gomez co-authored “Attention Is All You Need” — the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer and underpins essentially every large language model since. Then he built a company on it. He co-founded Cohere in Toronto in 2019 with Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, selling enterprise and sovereign AI to banks, governments, healthcare and defence on a deliberate pitch: customers keep control of their own data rather than routing it through American hyperscalers. Cohere raised about $1.6 billion, reached a $7 billion valuation in 2025 and roughly $240 million of annual recurring revenue, and in April 2026 merged with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a deal valuing the combined transatlantic company at about $20 billion. He finished the Oxford doctorate he had paused to start the company, taking it in 2024.
Beyond investing
- Education
- Read computer science and mathematics at the University of Toronto and completed the Oxford doctorate he had paused to start Cohere, taking it in 2024.
- More
- Founded the research collective FOR.ai in 2017, now Cohere Labs, and joined Rivian's board in April 2025.
From Aidan's own website — common ground for a warm intro.
Co-founder & CEO at Cohere
Intro paths
In turn, Aidan can intro founders to Cohere's investors below.
Cohere's investors · 22
Co-founders at Cohere
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Aidan Gomez?
- At twenty, as a Google Brain intern, Aidan Gomez co-authored “Attention Is All You Need” — the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer and underpins essentially every large language model since. Then he built a company on it. He co-founded Cohere in Toronto in 2019 with Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, selling enterprise and sovereign AI to banks, governments, healthcare and defence on a deliberate pitch: customers keep control of their own data rather than routing it through American hyperscalers. Cohere raised about $1.6 billion, reached a $7 billion valuation in 2025 and roughly $240 million of annual recurring revenue, and in April 2026 merged with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a deal valuing the combined transatlantic company at about $20 billion. He finished the Oxford doctorate he had paused to start the company, taking it in 2024.
- Where does Aidan Gomez work?
- Aidan Gomez is Co-founder & CEO at Cohere.
- What companies did Aidan Gomez found?
- Aidan Gomez founded Cohere.
Paths to reach Aidan
People who overlapped with Aidan at the same organization — a shared school or employer with one of them is a warm way in.
