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Quild #22: Cohere

World's most powerful NLP toolkit

17 Feb

This is the Quild daily, highlighting one early-stage startup that has statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

Cohere provides unprecedented access to affordable, easy-to-deploy large language models. Their platform gives computers the ability to read and write - whether you want to better understand what your customers are saying, or you want to write compelling copy that speaks to your target audience.

Founders: Aidan Gomez (CEO), Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst 

Signals:

  1. Top company alumni

    1. Nick worked as an engineer at Google for 4 years

  2. Top university alumni

    1. Aidan graduated with a BS in Computer Science from University of Toronto and a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University

    2. Ivan attended University of Toronto and dropped out of the BS in Computer Science program

    3. Nick graduated with a BS in Computer and Cognitive Science from University of Toronto

  3. Fast team growth

    1. Grew 3.7x YoY to 62 employees

    2. And hiring a lot more, job openings here 

  4. Accelerated financing

    1. Announced series A in Sept 2021 and series B in Feb 2022

  5. Midas list investors

    1. Tiger global led series B

    2. Index Ventures led series A

  6. As a AI nerd I can’t help but note some of their luminary investors

    1. Geoffrey Hinton

    2. Fei-Fei Li

    3. Pieter Abbeel

    4. Raquel Urtasun

Till tomorrow, Kenn