Groq, Inc.
AcquiredRaised $1.75B at $6.9B valuation
About Groq, Inc.
Groq is an AI infrastructure company that designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU) for fast, low-cost AI inference. Founded by former Google TPU engineer Jonathan Ross, the company was acquired by NVIDIA in December 2025 for $20 billion. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, United States, Groq, Inc. has raised a total of $1.75B in funding and is currently at the Acquired stage. Notable investors include Disruptive, BlackRock, Neuberger Berman, DTCP. The company has an estimated revenue of $500M (2025 target).
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| Round | Date | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series E | Sep 2025 | $750M | DisruptiveBlackRockNeuberger BermanDTCPSamsungCiscoD1 Capital PartnersAltimeter1789 CapitalInfinitum |
| Series D | Aug 2024 | $640M | BlackRock Private Equity Partners |
| Series C | Apr 2021 | $300M | Tiger Global ManagementD1 Capital PartnersThe Spruce House PartnershipAddition |
| Series A | Dec 2016 | $10M | Social Capital |
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Groq consistently outperforms NVIDIA GPU-based inference in speed benchmarks for supported models. Together.ai and Fireworks.ai offer broader open-source model selections but cannot match Groq's latency. AWS Bedrock and Azure AI provide proprietary model access that Groq lacks. For pure inference speed with open-source models, Groq is unmatched.