Chroma is a Vector Databases company founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $18M in total funding, most recently a Seed in 2023 at a $75M valuation.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2023 | Seed | $18M | $75M | Quiet Capital |
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An open-source embedding database for AI applications, available as an embedded in-process library, a local persistent server, or a standalone HTTP server. Stores vector embeddings alongside metadata and documents, and supports pluggable embedding functions for OpenAI, Cohere, HuggingFace, and others. Designed for rapid RAG and LangChain prototyping with a three-line Python API.
A hosted serverless vector database service supporting vector search, hybrid search, and full-text search (BM25/SPLADE). Built on a cloud-agnostic object storage architecture separating query nodes from compactor nodes. The 2025 Rust-core rewrite delivers 4x faster writes and queries with multithreading, eliminating Python GIL bottlenecks for production AI workloads.
29 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.