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title: "Groq: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Groq, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that builds an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-groq
type: Organization
wikidata: Q126050137
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq
website: https://groq.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Groq

> Groq, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that builds an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

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## Facts

- Category: Chips and hardware
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2016-01-01
- Headquarters: Mountain View
- Status: private
- Website: https://groq.com/
- Also known as: Groq, Inc.
- Industries: semiconductor industry

## Accounts

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groq

## Key people

- Jonathan Ross, founder (American engineer; founder of Groq, Inc.)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2026-07-24: Form D, USD 672.2 million sold of a USD 672.2 million offering, 144 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1686725/000168672526000003/))
- 2018-09-05: Form D, USD 52.3 million sold of a USD 60.7 million offering, 16 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1686725/000168672518000003/))
- 2016-12-09: Form D/A, USD 10.3 million sold of a USD 10.7 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1686725/000168672516000002/))
- 2016-10-20: Form D, USD 10 million sold of a USD 10.3 million offering, 1 investor ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1686725/000168672516000001/))

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Groq, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-groq#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126050137, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001686725

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