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  "markdown": "Chief Product Officer, Groq.\n\nRakesh Malhotra became Groq's Chief Product Officer in July 2026. He spent roughly a decade at Microsoft leading cloud, data-centre management and enterprise storage products, then worked with Sinclair Schuller at Apprenda and co-founded Nuvalence, which EY bought in 2024.\n\n## What Rakesh builds\n\n- [GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.md), graded BB, 74.5/100, in Model APIs \u0026 inference. OpenAI-compatible inference API serving open-weight models on Groq's processors. Chief Product Officer, Groq, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [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. Chief Product Officer, Groq, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Adam Winter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adam-winter/), Chief Executive Officer, Groq\n- [Alex Davis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-davis/), Executive Chairman, Groq\n- [Douglas Wightman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/douglas-wightman/), Co-founder and first CEO, Groq\n- [Gavin Hogan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gavin-hogan/), Head of Platform Engineering\n- [Jonathan Ross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-ross/), Founder and former CEO, Groq\n- [Sinclair Schuller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sinclair-schuller/), Chief Technology Officer, Groq\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Disruptive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/)\n- [Infinitum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/infinitum/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [BlackRock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackrock/)\n- [Neuberger Berman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neuberger-berman/)\n- [Deutsche Telekom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/deutsche-telekom/)\n- [Samsung](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/samsung/)\n- [Cisco Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/)\n- [Global Brain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/global-brain/)\n- [Type One Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/type-one-ventures/)\n- [D1 Capital Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/d1-capital-partners/)\n- [Altimeter Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altimeter-capital/)\n- [1789 Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/1789-capital/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [The Spruce House Partnership](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/the-spruce-house-partnership/)\n- [Addition](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/addition/)\n- [GCM Grosvenor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gcm-grosvenor/)\n- [Capital X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalx/)\n- [Firebolt Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/firebolt-ventures/)\n- [General Global Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-global-capital/)\n- [Tru Arrow Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tru-arrow-partners/)\n- [TDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tdk/)\n- [XTX Markets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/xtx-markets/)\n- [Boardman Bay Capital Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/boardman-bay-capital-management/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Rakesh Malhotra?\n\nRakesh Malhotra became Groq's Chief Product Officer in July 2026. He spent roughly a decade at Microsoft leading cloud, data-centre management and enterprise storage products, then worked with Sinclair Schuller at Apprenda and co-founded Nuvalence, which EY bought in 2024.\n\n### What does Groq make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists GroqCloud and Groq Speech-to-Text from Groq. OpenAI-compatible inference API serving open-weight models on Groq's processors.\n\n### Who has invested in Groq?\n\nThe 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.\n\n### How are Rakesh's tools graded?\n\nGroqCloud 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.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinhogan/\n- https://groq.com/\n- https://console.groq.com/docs/billing-faqs\n- https://console.groq.com/docs\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq\n- https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-closes-usd350-million-series-a-building-the-world-s-leading-ai-inference-cloud\n- https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text\n- https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale\n\nThese 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. 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