Aidan Gomez
About Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Toronto. He grew up in Brighton, Ontario, and earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics at the University of Toronto. He then started a PhD in computer science at the University of Oxford, advised by Yarin Gal and Yee Whye Teh. He paused it to start Cohere and was granted the degree in 2024.
In 2017, while a 20-year-old intern at Google Brain, he was one of eight authors of the paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced the transformer architecture. That same year he founded FOR.ai, a program that helped researchers learn machine learning in a collaborative format. It later became Cohere For AI, now called Cohere Labs, which released the open-source multilingual model Aya.
Cohere was founded in 2019 by Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, who had worked with Gomez at FOR.ai. The company builds large language models and AI products for businesses, with a focus on regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, energy and the public sector. In June 2023 Cohere raised $270 million at a $2.2 billion valuation, according to CNBC. Crunchbase's investor count shows 0 companies founded, but he is a co-founder of Cohere.
Crunchbase credits Gomez with 14 investments, all in AI and all since 2023, in the figures Lounge holds. Crunchbase shows 0 lead investments and 0 exits. His current public Crunchbase person page lists 16 investments, so the count may have grown since the Lounge data was pulled.
His recent activity includes a seed round in Helical, which Crunchbase dates to April 2026, a PhnyX Lab seed round in August 2025, and a Borderless AI round in which he was one of three investors named. Third-party data from Tracxn lists a smaller set of investments, so databases do not agree on the full list. Crunchbase marks him as non-lead on the Finster AI pre-seed. Founders should treat him as a participating angel unless a specific announcement says otherwise.
Every investment in the Crunchbase record is in AI or an AI-adjacent area. The names on Crunchbase are Latent Labs, Finster AI, Extropic AI, DatologyAI, Cognosys, Marqo, OthersideAI, Helical, General Magic, Cheiron and Borderless AI. Crunchbase also lists PhnyX Lab.
Tracxn dates several of these rounds. DatologyAI raised an $11.6 million seed in February 2024, and Helical raised a $2.35 million seed in June 2024. Latent Labs raised a $40 million Series A in February 2025, and PhnyX Lab raised a $4 million seed in August 2025. These are total round sizes, not his own checks. Gomez operates Cohere, a model developer, but his angel portfolio covers more than language models, including the companies above.
Public data points to early-stage rounds. Crunchbase labels the Finster AI round pre-seed. Most of the dated rounds above are seed, and Latent Labs was a Series A. Third-party investor databases describe his focus as artificial intelligence, software and information technology, with deals in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. These are aggregator summaries rather than statements from Gomez.
He has not published a check size or an investment thesis that we could find, so none is given here. Founders should not assume he writes checks of any particular size. His public work centers on enterprise AI, and he has argued that businesses are the best way to close the gap between AI research and real deployment. That is context for what he knows well, not a stated investing rule.
- Latent Labs: Series A of $40 million in February 2025, per Tracxn.
- DatologyAI: seed round of $11.6 million in February 2024, per Tracxn.
- Helical: seed rounds in June 2024 and April 2026, per Crunchbase and Tracxn.
- PhnyX Lab: seed round of $4 million in August 2025, per Tracxn.
- Finster AI: pre-seed round, per Crunchbase.
- Borderless AI: round with Gomez among three named investors, per Crunchbase.
- Extropic AI, Cognosys, Marqo, OthersideAI, General Magic, Cheiron: listed as investments on Crunchbase; round details are not public in our sources.
- crunchbase.com/person/aidan-gomez-e593
- crunchbase.com/person/7c3f17b2-e802-40cc-bf02-a91ab97ce593
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Gomez
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohere
- cnbc.com/2024/07/06/cohere-ceo-and-ex-google-researcher-aidan-gomez-on
- time.com/collections/time100-ai/6310653/aidan-gomez
- tracxn.com/d/people/aidan-gomez/__QIUeIZSXR3qRbdeyO_N76Lnp1JaPFim5xDpf
- shizune.co/investors/angel-investors-luxembourg
AI portfolio
Investing activity
Aidan Gomez has made 14 investments according to Crunchbase. 14 of those investments since 2023 were in AI companies, including Latent Labs, Finster AI, Extropic AI, DatologyAI and Cognosys.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Aidan Gomez
Is Aidan Gomez an angel investor?
Yes. Crunchbase lists him as an investor with 14 AI investments since 2023 in the figures Lounge holds. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Cohere.
What stage does Aidan Gomez invest in?
His investments are mostly early, including a pre-seed in Finster AI and seeds in Helical, DatologyAI and PhnyX Lab. He also took part in the Latent Labs Series A.
How big are Aidan Gomez's angel checks?
His check sizes are not public. Round totals such as $2.35 million for Helical's seed are the whole round, not his investment.
What does Aidan Gomez look for in startups?
He has not published an investment thesis that we could find. His portfolio is entirely AI companies, and his own work focuses on making AI useful for businesses.
Does Aidan Gomez lead rounds?
Crunchbase records 0 lead investments for him, so he has appeared as a participating investor rather than a round lead.
How can founders reach Aidan Gomez?
He is on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/aidangomez and on X as @aidangomez, and he has a personal site at aidangomez.ca. We have no public information on whether he takes cold pitches.
What AI companies has Aidan Gomez invested in?
Aidan Gomez's AI investments include Latent Labs, Finster AI, Extropic AI, DatologyAI, Cognosys, Marqo, OthersideAI and Helical.
Where is Aidan Gomez based?
Aidan Gomez is based in Toronto, Canada.