Groq
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$2.8B
7 rounds on record
Latest round
$350M
Series A · Aug 2026 · 1 mo ago
Team
299
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +25% in a year
Hiring now
31
+23 posted in 30 days
Backers
14
Alumni Ventures, BlueYard Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
1 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
65/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 17
Raised a round Series A $350M · TechCrunch
Jul 24
New executive Adam Winter, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D
2025
Team of 299 was 240 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Apr 5, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Llama 4 Now Live on Groq · 109 points
2025
Raised a round Series E $750M
Feb 19, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s · 847 points
2024
Raised a round Series D $640M
Dec 22, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Groqchat · 161 points
2021
Raised a round Series C $300M
2018
Raised a round Series A $52.3M
Dec 9, 2016
New executive Douglas Wightman, Co-Founder · SEC Form D
Oct 6, 2016
Raised a round Venture round $10.3M · SEC Form D
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
56
best: 847 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Aug 2026 | $350M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Jun 2026 | $672.2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series E | 2025 | $750M | — | |
| Series D | 2024 | $640M | — | |
| Series C | 2021 | $300M | — | |
| Series A | 2018 | $52.3M | — | |
| Venture round | Oct 2016 | $10.3M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Groq, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jonathan RossFounder & Chief Executive Officer
Douglas WightmanCo-Founder
Stuart PannChief Operating Officer
Adam WinterExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Alumni Ventures 
BlueYard Capital 
Cisco Investments 
Cleo Capital 
Elefund 
Eniac Ventures 
Garage Capital 
Global Brain 
La Famiglia 
Magna Investment 
Spider Capital 
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How Groq hires
Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
7 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%
Groq scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 7 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 19 · green card filings: 2
Overview
Groq is an American semiconductor company founded in 2016 by former Google engineers who had worked on the Tensor Processing Unit. It designs the Language Processing Unit, a deterministic single-core architecture with on-chip memory that removes the scheduling unpredictability of GPUs and delivers unusually low latency for large language model inference. Rather than selling chips alone the company runs GroqCloud, a hosted inference service where developers call open models through an API, and it has signed large capacity agreements to build data centres in the United States and the Middle East.
News
Silicon Valley 101 Analysis: The Hegemony Battle for AI Inference Chips-Groq, Cerebras, and OpenAIyondo IT・経済情報まとめ
Original Episode: https://sv101.fireside.fm/264September 16, 2026OverviewIn this episode of "Silicon Valley 101," a program that delves deep into cutting-edge tech trends in Silicon Valley from the perspective of the Chinese-speaking world, we provide a t
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How Nvidia gutted a onetime rival and left behind a $3.5 billion AI cloud
In a $20 billion deal last year, Nvidia took what made Groq special. The AI cloud startup left behind bets that special doesn't matter anymore.
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NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX Now in Full Production With World-Class Speed for Agentic AI
NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, the interactive AI inference accelerator, is now in full production. An extension of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, Groq 3 LPX delivers a major boost in AI inference by enabling ultrafast token generation fo
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Nvidia's dedicated inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX enters full production to supercharge AI agents
Nvidia's dedicated inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX enters full production to supercharge AI agents - SiliconANGLE
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Nvidia says Groq racks will be online this year following $20 billion purchase
Nvidia's race to manufacture Groq chips and make them available to customers highlight the growing importance in AI of low-latency inference.
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How NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX Unlocks Ultrafast Interactivity at Long Context on NVIDIA Vera Rubin
NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72…
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Groq привлек $350 млн на фоне перехода от разработки чипов к неоклауд-бизнесу
Стартап Groq (не путать с чат-ботом xAI Илона Маска; этот занимается разработкой ИИ-чипов и облачной инфраструктуры для быстрого запуска моделей) привлек $350 млн в рамках раунда финансирования, который продолжает трансформацию компании из разработчика ИИ
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Groq over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
41
Postings analysed
47
Stack modernity
65/100AI adopter
Languages
Python34%
Bash13%
C++6%
Rust6%
Frameworks & libraries
NCCL9%
CUDA6%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes23%
Linux21%
AWS9%
Azure6%
AI & ML
LLM2%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$365k
Typical range
$195k – $365k
Open positions
3
2
Jobs
Staff
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 2 | $365k | $365k |
Highest paying role
Staff Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Infrastructure (GroqMetal)
$365k
Normalized to USD per year
Products
GroqWare
GroqWare is the compiler and runtime that maps neural networks onto the LPU architecture. It schedules execution statically rather than relying on runtime dispatch.
groq.com
GroqRack
GroqRack is the on-premise cluster product for customers who need inference capacity inside their own facilities. It packages LPU nodes with the interconnect and software stack.
groq.com
GroqCloud
GroqCloud is the hosted inference service where developers run open models through an API compatible with common client libraries. It is the company's main commercial channel.
groq.com
LPU
The Language Processing Unit is Groq's inference accelerator built on a deterministic architecture with large on-chip SRAM. Removing memory hierarchy unpredictability is what gives it consistently low token latency.
groq.com
People
Jonathan Ross
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Ross founded Groq in 2016 and leads it as chief executive. He started Google's Tensor Processing Unit project as a twenty per cent side effort before it became core infrastructure.
Douglas Wightman
Co-Founder
Douglas Wightman co-founded Groq with Jonathan Ross after working as an engineer at Google X. He helped establish the company's early direction.
Stuart Pann
Chief Operating Officer
Stuart Pann leads Groq's operations and supply chain. He previously ran Intel Foundry Services and spent decades in senior operations roles at Intel and HP.
Adam Winter
Executive Officer, Director
Chamath Palihapitiya
Director
Alexander Davis
Director
John Yetimoglu
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
87/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
31
30 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
6 days
faster than 78% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
13% ▼
Security
13% ▲
Legal
13% ▲
Operations
13% ▼
Sales
9% ▲
AI/ML
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Legal (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Quantization to stack
Oct 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Oct 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Oct 2026
Added GCP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure to stack
Oct 2026
Added AWS to stack
Oct 2026
Added FinOps to stack
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Oct 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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Mountain View
United States
HQ
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
15 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 47% engineering $308k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Security, Sales
Dallas
United States
Regional office
9 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 56% engineering
hires for Security, DevOps, Networking
New York
United States
Regional office
8 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Security, DevOps, Networking
Jobs
≈ $127k – $284k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Claude Code
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OpenAI Codex
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CI/CD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
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$270k – $365k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
Groq
CoreWeave
NCCL
InfiniBand
NVLink
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
Cilium
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Karpenter
kubeadm
AWS Lambda
HPC
BGP
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$270k – $365k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Claude Code
Groq
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
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≈ $107k – $217k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Bash
Groq
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
Platform Engineering
HPC
Linux
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≈ $97k – $197k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New York
Python
Bash
Groq
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
Platform Engineering
HPC
Linux
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≈ $84k – $169k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Dallas
Python
Bash
Groq
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
Platform Engineering
HPC
Linux
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≈ $110k – $219k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Dallas
Python
Groq
Time Series Forecasting
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
HPC
Linux
TCP/IP
BGP
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≈ $129k – $255k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Python
Groq
Time Series Forecasting
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
HPC
Linux
TCP/IP
BGP
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≈ $141k – $281k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Groq
Time Series Forecasting
InfiniBand
DevOps
Ansible
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
HPC
Linux
TCP/IP
BGP
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≈ $153k – $298k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Bash
Groq
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
NCCL
InfiniBand
NVLink
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
Cilium
SLURM
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
HPC
Linux
BGP
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
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≈ $130k – $259k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Dallas
Python
Rust
C++
Groq
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
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≈ $167k – $332k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Rust
C++
Groq
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
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Financials
Total raised
$2.8B
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
7
Investors
5
Funding rounds
Key Investors
Social Capital
Social Capital led Groq's earlier growth financing. The firm backs deep technology companies with long development cycles.
socialcapital.com
Cisco Investments
Cisco Investments joined Groq's Series D round. The arm invests in networking, infrastructure and AI companies aligned with Cisco's roadmap.
cisco.com
Samsung Catalyst Fund
Samsung's Catalyst Fund invested in Groq as a strategic semiconductor backer. The fund targets data centre and infrastructure silicon.
samsung.com
Disruptive
Disruptive led Groq's 2025 round at a valuation near seven billion dollars. The Dallas firm invests in late-stage growth companies.
disruptive.com
BlackRock
BlackRock led Groq's 2024 financing at a two and eight tenths billion dollar valuation. The asset manager has become an active investor in AI infrastructure.
blackrock.com