# Nick Frosst

> Nick Frosst is co-founder of Cohere and co-founder of Cohere Inc.. Cohere Chat API (Command models), Cohere Embed and Rerank, Cohere North and Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Cohere. Co-founder, Cohere Inc..

Nick Frosst co-founded Cohere, the enterprise AI company, in Toronto in 2019, and works on its research and customer experience. Before Cohere he was Geoffrey Hinton's first employee at Google Brain's Toronto lab, researching capsule networks, adversarial examples and explainability.

## What Nick builds

- [Cohere Chat API (Command models)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md), graded B, 64.7/100, in Model APIs & inference. Cohere's Chat API generates text with the Command family of models over REST (v2 chat), with tool use, structured outputs, citations and streaming. SDKs cover Python, TypeScript, Java and Go. Co-founder, Cohere, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cohere Embed and Rerank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-embed.md), graded BB, 72.5/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. Cohere's Embed API turns text, images and mixed text-and-image inputs such as PDF pages into vectors with Embed 5 Pro and Fast, and its Rerank API reorders search results with Rerank 4. Co-founder, Cohere, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cohere North](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.md), graded C, 55.1/100, in Company knowledge & data catalogues. Cohere North is an enterprise AI agent and search platform from Cohere in Toronto. It indexes connected work apps into Compass for permission-aware search and chat, with a REST API per instance. North 2 was announced on 5 October 2026. Co-founder, Cohere Inc., researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cohere Transcribe 03-2026](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.md), graded C, 59.3/100, in Speech-to-text. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 is Cohere's open-weight speech recognition model, a 2B Conformer encoder with a light Transformer decoder trained from scratch, transcribing 14 languages from a pre-specified language, under Apache 2.0, in a gated Hugging Face repository. Co-founder, Cohere, researched 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Aidan Gomez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aidan-gomez/), Co-founder, Cohere
- [Ivan Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ivan-zhang/), Co-founder, Cohere

## Backed by

- [Radical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radical-ventures/)
- [Inovia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/inovia-capital/)
- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [Public Sector Pension Investment Board](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/public-sector-pension-investment-board/)
- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)
- [Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/healthcare-of-ontario-pension-plan-hoopp/)
- [Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/business-development-bank-of-canada-bdc/)
- [Nexxus Capital Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nexxus-capital-management/)
- [Schwarz Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/)

## Questions

### Who is Nick Frosst?

Nick Frosst co-founded Cohere, the enterprise AI company, in Toronto in 2019, and works on its research and customer experience. Before Cohere he was Geoffrey Hinton's first employee at Google Brain's Toronto lab, researching capsule networks, adversarial examples and explainability.

### What does Cohere, Cohere Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Cohere Chat API (Command models), Cohere Embed and Rerank, Cohere North and Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 from Cohere, Cohere Inc.. Cohere's Chat API generates text with the Command family of models over REST (v2 chat), with tool use, structured outputs, citations and streaming. SDKs cover Python, TypeScript, Java and Go.

### Who has invested in Cohere, Cohere Inc.?

The sources our research read name Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital, AMD, NVIDIA, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Salesforce, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Nexxus Capital Management and Schwarz Group.

### How are Nick's tools graded?

Cohere Chat API (Command models) is graded B, 64.7 out of 100; Cohere Embed and Rerank is graded BB, 72.5 out of 100; Cohere North is graded C, 55.1 out of 100; Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 is graded C, 59.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://cohere.com/about
- https://cohere.com/

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