Founder Profile
Ivan Zhang
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Ivan Zhang?
Ivan Zhang is a founder of Cohere Inc., which was founded in 2019 with Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst.
- Company founded
- Cohere Inc.
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst
Background
Ivan Zhang studied at the University of Toronto before leaving to work on AI research and co-founding the independent research collective FOR.ai with Aidan Gomez.
Founding Story
Ivan Zhang is a co-founder of Cohere. Before Cohere he co-founded FOR.ai, an open research collective, with Aidan Gomez. At Cohere he has worked on the engineering and infrastructure that serve the company's models to enterprise customers. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Cohere newsroom and blog (Cohere Inc.)
- CNBC - Cohere tops revenue target as momentum builds to IPO (Feb 2026) (Cohere Inc.)