# Groq

AI compute, stripped down to pure speed.

## Sector:

- AI/ML  
- Hardware

## Founded In:

2016

## Website:

[groq.com](https://groq.com/)

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

### STAGE

- All  
- Seed  
- Early (A+B)  
- Growth  
- Acquired  
- IPO

### LEAD PARTNERS

- Andy McLoughlin  
- Jeff Clavier  
- Amy Saper  
- Susan Liu  
- Tripp Jones

### SECTOR

- All  
- B2B Applications  
- Developer Tooling, Infrastructure & Security  
- Consumer & Marketplaces  
- Frontier Tech/Hardware  
- AI/ML