# Jaron Waldman

> Jaron Waldman is a startup investor at Cohere (San Francisco). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cohere](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cohere-82b8)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaronwaldman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaron.waldman

Jaron Waldman is a lifelong entrepreneur and builder of things. Jaron previously founded Placebase, a Los Angeles based location technology company that was acquired by Apple in 2009. After the acquisition Jaron spent 4 years at Apple leading a team that developed location-based services across the Apple ecosystem. He became fascinated with thepotential of location technology in the nascent era of Mobile commerce, prompting him to leave Apple in 2013 and co-found Curbside. Jaron holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Toronto and lives in Palo Alto.

## 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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