Vancouver-based Ottogrid, a developer of enterprise tools for automating high-level market research, has been acquired by AI startup Cohere.
Sully Omar, Ottogrid’s co-founder, announced the acquisition Friday on X (formerly Twitter). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Excited to announce that Ottogrid is joining @cohere ! pic.twitter.com/FPNl9IiNW8
— Sully (@SullyOmarr) May 16, 2025
Founded in 2023 as Cognosys by Omar and Homam Malkawi, the company rebranded to Ottogrid in October 2024 following a major platform overhaul that introduced new integrations, tools, and APIs.
Ottogrid’s current platform features a “native table interface” with AI-powered document analysis capabilities. Users can extract data from websites directly into spreadsheets or automatically enrich lead lists for sales and marketing.
According to Crunchbase, Ottogrid raised $2 million in venture capital from investors including GV (Google Ventures), Untapped Capital, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and Cohere co-founders Ivan Zhang and Aidan Gomez.
As part of Cohere, Ottogrid will focus on enhancing North, Cohere’s recently launched ChatGPT-style application designed to assist knowledge workers with tasks such as summarizing documents and conducting research.
“I’m super excited to bring the Ottogrid team aboard and incorporate Ottogrid’s product directly into North,” said Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez in a statement to TechCrunch. “We’re bringing enterprises a new way to tackle research with smart tables, helping make employees’ day-to-day work more enjoyable and productive.”
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