# Alex Davis (slim) > Alex Davis is executive Chairman at Groq. GroqCloud and Groq Speech-to-Text on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-davis/index.md (~1,500 tokens) · this version ~1,380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-davis/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-davis/ - Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28 - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) Executive Chairman, Groq. Alex Davis chairs Groq and is founder and chief executive of Disruptive, the investment firm that led Groq's rounds of September 2025 and August 2026 and co-led its June 2026 raise. ## What Alex builds - [GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.md), graded BB, 74.5/100, in Model APIs & inference. OpenAI-compatible inference API serving open-weight models on Groq's processors. Executive Chairman, Groq, researched 2026-10-28. - [Groq Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 71.8/100, in Speech-to-text. Groq's hosted speech-to-text API. It runs OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and Whisper Large v3 Turbo on OpenAI-compatible transcription and translation endpoints, for uploaded files or audio URLs, with a half-price batch mode. Executive Chairman, Groq, researched 2026-10-28. ## Works with - [Adam Winter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adam-winter/), Chief Executive Officer, Groq - [Douglas Wightman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/douglas-wightman/), Co-founder and first CEO, Groq - [Gavin Hogan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gavin-hogan/), Head of Platform Engineering - [Jonathan Ross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-ross/), Founder and former CEO, Groq - [Rakesh Malhotra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rakesh-malhotra/), Chief Product Officer, Groq - [Sinclair Schuller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sinclair-schuller/), Chief Technology Officer, Groq ## Backed by - [Disruptive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/) - [Infinitum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/infinitum/) - [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/) - [BlackRock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackrock/) - [Neuberger Berman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neuberger-berman/) - [Deutsche Telekom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/deutsche-telekom/) - [Samsung](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/samsung/) - [Cisco Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/) - [Global Brain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/global-brain/) - [Type One Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/type-one-ventures/) - [D1 Capital Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d1-capital-partners/) - [Altimeter Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altimeter-capital/) - [1789 Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/1789-capital/) - [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/) - [The Spruce House Partnership](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/the-spruce-house-partnership/) - [Addition](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/addition/) - [GCM Grosvenor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gcm-grosvenor/) - [Capital X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalx/) - [Firebolt Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/firebolt-ventures/) - [General Global Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-global-capital/) - [Tru Arrow Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tru-arrow-partners/) - [TDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tdk/) - [XTX Markets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/xtx-markets/) - [Boardman Bay Capital Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/boardman-bay-capital-management/) ## Questions ### Who is Alex Davis? Alex Davis chairs Groq and is founder and chief executive of Disruptive, the investment firm that led Groq's rounds of September 2025 and August 2026 and co-led its June 2026 raise. ### What does Groq make? Anchor Terminal lists GroqCloud and Groq Speech-to-Text from Groq. ### Who has invested in Groq? The sources our research read name Disruptive, Infinitum, NVIDIA, BlackRock, Neuberger Berman, Deutsche Telekom, Samsung, Cisco Investments, Global Brain, Type One Ventures, D1 Capital Partners, Altimeter Capital, 1789 Capital, Tiger Global, The Spruce House Partnership, Addition, GCM Grosvenor, Capital X, Firebolt Ventures, General Global Capital, Tru Arrow Partners, TDK, XTX Markets and Boardman Bay Capital Management. ### How are Alex's tools graded? GroqCloud is graded BB, 74.5 out of 100; Groq Speech-to-Text is graded BB, 71.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinhogan/ - https://groq.com/ - https://console.groq.com/docs/billing-faqs - https://console.groq.com/docs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq - https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-closes-usd350-million-series-a-building-the-world-s-leading-ai-inference-cloud - https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text - https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.