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The signed Cohere and Aleph Alpha combination now has its fuller company detail on the record. Per the announcement, Cohere has raised about $1.6bn to date, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Oracle and Cisco among its backers, while Aleph Alpha brings roughly 200 people across four locations in Germany. Both firms were founded in 2019, and incoming chief operating officer Ilhan Scheer previously founded the data analytics company fable+, later acquired by Accenture.

The commercial queue is filling in behind the paperwork. OpenText said earlier on 16 September, at the ALL IN conference in Montréal, that it will fold Cohere's North agent platform and models into its own Aviator agents and resell Cohere-supported products, targeting governments and regulated industries with customers expected in early 2027. Aidan Gomez's pitch from the announcement stands: no government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology.

None of this moves the deal's terms. The combined business operates globally as Cohere with dual Toronto and Berlin headquarters, Heidelberg stays on as a research centre, and closing is expected later this year pending final regulatory approval. The Next Web's readout of the announcement is the freshest consolidation of the day's details.

Sources and evidence

• Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign their combination deal – The Next Web: Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive business combination agreement announced on 16 September 2026, with the combined company operating globally as Cohere, dual Toronto and Berlin headquarters and closing expected later this year subject to regulatory approval. Newly detailed: Cohere has raised about $1.6bn from investors including Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Oracle and Cisco; Aleph Alpha employs about 200 people across four German locations; and OpenText announced a same-da

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