# Schwarz Group (slim)

> Schwarz Group's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Cohere, Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/index.md (~800 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Corporate investor.

Website: https://gruppe.schwarz

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Cohere**, Series E (committed), April 2026, led a round
  - [Cohere Chat API (Command models)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md), graded B, 64.7/100
  - [Cohere Embed and Rerank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-embed.md), graded BB, 72.5/100
  - [Cohere Transcribe 03-2026](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.md), graded C, 59.3/100
  - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-alephalpha-join-forces
- **Cohere Inc.**, Series E (committed), April 2026, led a round
  - [Cohere North](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md), graded C, 55.1/100
  - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-alephalpha-join-forces
- **Aleph Alpha**, Series B, November 2023, led a round
  - [Kolibri-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kolibri-1.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://tech.eu/2023/11/06/aleph-alpha-raises-over-half-a-billion-in-series-b-funding-for-ai-development

## Where they invest

- Model APIs & inference, 1
- Embeddings & rerankers, 1
- Speech-to-text, 1
- Company knowledge & data catalogues, 1
- Open-weight models, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Aidan Gomez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aidan-gomez/), Cohere, Cohere Inc.
- [Nick Frosst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nick-frosst/), Cohere, Cohere Inc.
- [Ivan Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ivan-zhang/), Cohere, Cohere Inc.
- [Jonas Andrulis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonas-andrulis/), Aleph Alpha
- [Samuel Weinbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samuel-weinbach/), Aleph Alpha

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Schwarz Group invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Cohere, Cohere Inc.

### How are Schwarz Group's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Cohere Chat API (Command models) (B, 64.7), Cohere Embed and Rerank (BB, 72.5), Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 (C, 59.3), Cohere North (C, 55.1) and Kolibri-1 (C, 61).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.