Founder Profile
Aidan Gomez
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Aidan Gomez?
Aidan Gomez is a founder of Cohere Inc., which was founded in 2019 with Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst.
- Company founded
- Cohere Inc.
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst
Background
Aidan Gomez studied computer science at the University of Toronto and interned at Google Brain, where he co-authored the 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need' that introduced the Transformer. He later pursued a DPhil in machine learning at the University of Oxford.
Founding Story
Aidan Gomez is co-founder and CEO of Cohere. As a Google Brain intern he co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017) with seven other researchers. He co-founded Cohere in Toronto in 2019 and has led it through funding rounds that lifted its valuation to about $7 billion by September 2025, revenue growth to roughly $240 million ARR in 2025, and the 2026 merger agreement with Aleph Alpha. Gomez is a frequent voice in Canadian and international debates on sovereign AI. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).