Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder @ Cohere
Ivan Zhang is a co-founder at Cohere. Prior to co-founding Cohere alongside Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst, Ivan founded for.ai (now Cohere Labs), Cohere’s research lab. Ivan also worked in biotech and MLOps space as a software engineer and studied at the University of Toronto.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Ivan Zhang invests in
Stages Ivan Zhang invests in
Countries Ivan Zhang invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$12M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.8M–$4.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (30%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- SaaS 1 (10%)
- Email 1 (10%)
- Big Data 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (70%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (30%)
Country
- United States 2 (20%)
- Canada 1 (10%)
- Luxembourg 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Borderless AI
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Borderless AI is a global payroll solution that leverages the power of generative AI to automate and speed up the process of on-boarding, managing, and paying international team members. Learn more at: hireborderless.ai | $5M / Seed / Jan 16, 2025 | |
Helical
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Helical is an intermediary platform that offers bioinformaticians free access to the technologies from AI and biological computation. | $3.2M / Seed / Jun 28, 2024 | |
DatologyAI
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DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation. | $11.7M / Seed / Feb 22, 2024 | |
Finster AI
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Finster AI offers AI agents that can read, analyse and integrate disparate sources of financial and market data. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Dec 31, 2023 | |
Marqo
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A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows. | $5.2M / Seed / Aug 16, 2023 | |
Cognosys
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Advancing AI agents, streamlining daily tasks & empowering users for a seamless digital experience. | $2M / Seed / May 25, 2023 | |
OthersideAI
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OthersideAI is an information technology company that provides AI-driven software that turns summaries and shorthand notes into written emails, enabling users to save time. The software is available as a Chrome Extension and is built on GPT-3, a general-purpose AI model from OpenAI which delivers natural-language results for virtually any task. Italso offers a feature set to include personal style and tone settings.Jason Kuperberg, Matt Shumer, and Miles Feldstein, founded the company in 2020. | $2.8M / Seed / Mar 09, 2023 | |
CentML
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CentML accelerates Machine Learning workloads by maximizing training and inference efficiency leading to compute cost reduction. | $3.5M / Seed / Jun 30, 2022 | |
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CentML
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CentML accelerates Machine Learning workloads by maximizing training and inference efficiency leading to compute cost reduction. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 30, 2022 | |
Modem
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Modem is a developer of infrastructure that enables AI agents to access blockchain networks, interact with decentralized applications, and execute on-chain actions. The platform provides tools, APIs, and protocols that connect language models and autonomous agents with Web3 ecosystems. Modem supports agent-driven workflows involving blockchain dataaccess, transaction execution, and decentralized application interactions. | $4.4M / Pre-Seed |
Co-Investors
About Cohere
Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology,
Cohere Contacts
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Aidan Gomez
Co-Founder & CEO
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Claire Cheng
Chief of Staff
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Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder
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Jaron Waldman
Product Advisor
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Laura Moss
VP of Finance
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FAQ
What does Ivan Zhang invest in?
Ivan Zhang invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ivan Zhang's check size?
Ivan Zhang typically joins rounds of $2M–$12M at Seed and $1.8M–$4.4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ivan Zhang participates in.
When did Ivan Zhang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ivan Zhang closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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