DeepGrove
YC S25San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 3 employees · Hiring · 6 known investors
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DeepGrove builds ultra-efficient ternary-weight AI models intended to run frontier-level intelligence on edge and low-power devices.
Also known as DeepGrove AI · deepgrove-ai
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S25)
DeepGrove was founded in 2025 by Shayaan Emran and Edward Zhang.
Investors · 6
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$1.1M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025–2026
- $1.1Mseed roundJul 2026
Kakao Ventures (lead), BonAngels Venture Partners
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026DeepGrove is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2025 that develops ultra-efficient, ternary-weight AI models optimized for deployment on edge and low-power devices. Its positioning line is "Frontier Intelligence. On Any Device."
The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, where its primary partner is listed as Harj Taggar. It is led by Edward Zhang (Founder/CEO) and Shayaan Emran (Founder/CTO), the latter formerly of JHU and W&M, with a listed team size of three. DeepGrove maintains a public GitHub organization whose repositories include Bonsai, a fork of llama.cpp, and mlx-lm-deepgrove, indicating work on model inference runtimes for local and on-device execution.
Business model
DeepGrove develops AI models designed for on-device and edge deployment rather than exclusively cloud-hosted inference; it publishes model and inference tooling repositories publicly under permissive licenses (MIT for its llama.cpp and mlx-lm-deepgrove repositories).
Traction
Public GitHub repositories have accumulated modest community interest: mlx-lm-deepgrove (128 stars, 10 forks), Bonsai (60 stars, 4 forks) and its llama.cpp fork (22 stars, 6 forks). The company is hiring ML technical staff in San Francisco at a posted range of $100K-$350K.
Latest developments
As of the most recent public listings, DeepGrove is marked Active by Y Combinator, has a team of three, and is recruiting ML technical staff in San Francisco.
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Market position
DeepGrove is an early-stage, pre-seed company backed by Y Combinator, categorized under artificial intelligence, information technology, internet and software.
Technology
The company's core technical approach is ternary-weight AI models, a low-precision representation aimed at reducing compute and memory requirements so models can run on edge and low-power hardware. Its public code repositories cover a model project named Bonsai and adaptations of two widely used local-inference stacks, llama.cpp (C++) and mlx-lm (Python).
Go-to-market
Users and developers deploying AI models on edge and low-power devices.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, United States, with hiring listed for San Francisco, CA.
History
DeepGrove was founded in 2025 and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch. Its first public repository, Bonsai, was last updated in March 2025, with continued activity on its inference-runtime repositories through 2026.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsDeepGrove is listed at the pre-seed stage with $500K raised, most recently announced in September 2025, with Y Combinator among its investors.
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DeepGrove is listed in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, with Harj Taggar as primary partner.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 6
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- DeepGrove · GitHubgithub.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does DeepGrove do?
- DeepGrove builds ultra-efficient ternary-weight AI models intended to run frontier-level intelligence on edge and low-power devices.
- Who founded DeepGrove?
- DeepGrove was founded by Shayaan Emran, Edward Zhang in 2025.
- Who are DeepGrove's investors?
- DeepGrove's investors include AUTHENTIC VENTURES, Olive Tree Capital, Transpose Platform Management, Y Combinator, BonAngels Venture Partners, Kakao Ventures.
- How much funding has DeepGrove raised?
- DeepGrove has disclosed $1.1M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is DeepGrove headquartered?
- DeepGrove is headquartered in San Francisco, US.