Chroma
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2022
Chroma is the open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications that provides vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search capabilities. The platform enables developers to build Python or JavaScript LLM apps with memory, offering both local development and cloud-scale deployment with serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable.
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Last Updated: April 23, 2026
Current Valuation
$75M
as of April 7, 2023 (Source)
Funding Summary
$20.3M
Total reported funding
Media Mention
April 14, 2026
BotBeat: Research Reveals 'Context Rot': LLM Performance Degrades With Longer Input Tokens Despite High Benchmark Scores | BotBeat
Media Mention
April 10, 2026
The New Stack: How to build an AI-powered private document search app with RAG, ChromaDB, and memory
OSS News & Views
April 3, 2026
Level Up Coding: Replace Your RAG Agent’s Brain With a 20B Model. It Got Smarter.
OSS News & Views
April 2, 2026
Geeky Gadgets: Why Chroma’s New Context-1 20B AI Model is Beating ChatGPT 5 at Search
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Core OSS Projects
Open-source embedding database for AI applications with vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search capabilities, supporting Python and JavaScript clients
License: Apache-2.0
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LLMs
RAG
Vector Database
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