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title: "Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation (Bloomberg)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/canada-based-cohere-completes-the-first-close-of-a-round-that-it-7307d7cb
published: 2026-10-29T16:10:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation (Bloomberg)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-29 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/canada-based-cohere-completes-the-first-close-of-a-round-that-it-7307d7cb

Bloomberg : Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation — Cohere Inc., an artificial intelligence model maker, is in the process of raising a large funding round at a $20.5 billion valuation …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261029/p36#a261029p36)

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