Groq
Groq
AI compute, stripped down to pure speed.
AI compute, stripped down to pure speed.
Sector:
AI/ML
Hardware
Founded In:
2016
Website:
Groq was built on a contrarian idea: as modern AI scaled, complexity became the bottleneck. While others raced to add more layers to AI systems, this team rethought hardware and software together to remove them entirely—delivering speed by design for AI and machine learning workloads. We knew early this wasn’t just faster, but a fundamentally better way forward.
Partners Since:
2025
Lead Partner(s):
Tripp Jones
Stage:
Acquired
All
Seed
Early (A+B)
Growth
Acquired
IPO
All
Andy McLoughlin
Jeff Clavier
Amy Saper
Susan Liu
Tripp Jones
All
B2B Applications
Developer Tooling, Infrastructure & Security
Consumer & Marketplaces
Frontier Tech/Hardware
AI/ML
All
Seed
Early (A+B)
Growth
Acquired
IPO
All
Andy McLoughlin
Jeff Clavier
Amy Saper
Susan Liu
Tripp Jones
All
B2B Applications
Developer Tooling, Infrastructure & Security
Consumer & Marketplaces
Frontier Tech/Hardware
AI/ML