Chroma
Open-source search and retrieval database for AI
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
OSS News & Views
June 9, 2026
VFF: Open-Source Search Agent Outperforms GPT-5.4 | VFF - The signal in the noise
OSS News & Views
June 9, 2026
Savannah Herald: Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information
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June 8, 2026
VentureBeat: Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information | VentureBeat
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June 7, 2026
MarkTechPost: Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent Trained With Reinforcement Learning Inside a Stateful Search Harness on gpt-oss-20b - MarkTechPost
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June 7, 2026
AI Deep Signal (MarkTechPost): Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent… | AI Deep Signal
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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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Vector DatabaseTechnologies
LLMsRAGSearchEmbeddingsAI Infrastructure
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