# Ivan Zhang

> Ivan Zhang is a seed investor at Cohere backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cohere](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cohere-82b8)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1vnzh/

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$4.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |
| Email | 1 | 10% |
| Big Data | 1 | 10% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Borderless AI | 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 | 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 | DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation. | $11.7M | Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Finster AI | 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 | A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows. | $5.2M | Seed | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| Cognosys | Advancing AI agents, streamlining daily tasks & empowering users for a seamless digital experience. | $2M | Seed | May 25, 2023 |  |
| OthersideAI | 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 | CentML accelerates Machine Learning workloads by maximizing training and inference efficiency leading to compute cost reduction. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| CentML | CentML accelerates Machine Learning workloads by maximizing training and inference efficiency leading to compute cost reduction. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| Modem | 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 |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Radical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radical-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Creator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creator-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cohere

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

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,

5 contacts available at Cohere.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aidan Gomez | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aidan-gomez-e593 |
| Claire Cheng | Chief of Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-cheng-0fda |
| Ivan Zhang | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivan-zhang-4236 |
| Jaron Waldman | Product Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaron-waldman |
| Laura Moss | VP of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-moss-a701 |

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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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