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Groq
Building easy to use, high TOPS/Watt accelerators with sub-millisecond latency
At a glance
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, United States
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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News
Nvidia eyes Korean chip startup Rebellions, valued at $2.3B
Aug 21, 2026
News
Poolside AI’s $6B Nvidia licensing deal reshapes the model-building race
Aug 21, 2026
News
Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to rebuild after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal
Aug 17, 2026
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Jun 11, 2026
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Social Capital
Daniel Gross- SPSocial Capital Partnerships
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Acequia Capital- NJNicole Junkermann
- NCNJF Capital
Series B and later26 investors entered at this stage
- SFSamsung Catalyst Fund
- KDKDDI
- NBNeuberger Berman
- DTDeutsche Telekom
- IPInfinitum Partners
BlackRock- GGGCM Grosvenor
- XVXTX Ventures
- D1D1
- SHSpruce House
- DTDisruptive Tech
- SESamsung Electronics
- FVFirebolt Ventures
- GCGeneral Global Capital
Plug and Play- TPTru Arrow Partners
- TVType One Ventures
D1 Capital Partners
Tiger Global- TVTDK Ventures
- GCGlobal Brain Corporation
Cisco
Altimeter Capital
Addition VC- XLXN LP
- BMBoardman Bay Capital Management
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Groq employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
POPositronEst. 2023
Thomas SohmersUnited States
Brian ShinUnited States
SISiMa.aiEst. 2018
Krishna RangasayeeUnited States
CACelestial AIEst. 2020
Michelle TomaskoUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
62 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Groq was the backer or acquirer, 2024–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
2 deals across Groq's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Groq's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Groq on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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