Chroma stock & equity tools

Jeff Huber and Anton Troynikov founded Chroma in 2022 in San Francisco to build open-source infrastructure for storing and querying vector embeddings, the numerical representations that let large language models retrieve relevant context from external data. The database is used inside retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, where developers load documents into Chroma and query it at inference time to reduce hallucinations. Chroma raised an $18 million seed round in April 2023, led by Quiet Capital, at a $75 million valuation. As of early 2026, the package exceeds 8 million monthly downloads and is embedded in more than 90,000 open-source projects. Chroma Cloud, the managed hosted version, reached general availability in August 2025.

Sources: siliconangle.com · crunchbase.com · trychroma.com

Equity comp at Chroma

• Early-stage company (most recent confirmed round was an $18M raise led by Quiet Capital at a $75M valuation). At this stage employees typically receive ISOs and NSOs rather than RSUs, so the double-trigger framework is more relevant to options vest-and-strike timing than to RSU mechanics.

Sources: trychroma.com · siliconangle.com

Researched 2026-05-11.