LinkedIn · Jan 2026
A public LinkedIn post highlighting DeepGrove's ternary-weight edge-AI approach, on-device privacy/latency angle, and YC S25 backing.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
DeepGrove is a San Francisco-based YC S25 startup building efficient frontier-AI models that run on-device; its best-known product is Bonsai, a compact ternary-weight language model.
Primary product
Bonsai, a 0.5B-parameter ternary-weight language model
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Sub-industry
On-device / edge AI model development
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B
open-source model release
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025
People & investors
Work & culture
Research- and engineering-heavy, efficiency-first, and centered on frontier AI that works on constrained devices.
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
The public ML Technical Staff job advertises a $100K-$350K salary range.
Benefits
visa sponsorship
open to new grads
24-hour applicant response
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Ternary-weight model design
- —Runs on any device / on-device focus
- —Competitive commonsense reasoning at very small scale
- —Trained on a fraction of the tokens of comparable models
- —Open technical artifacts on GitHub and Hugging Face
Technology
Python
CUDA
PyTorch
Hugging Face Transformers
Llama architecture
Mistral tokenizer
JIT mixed-precision kernels
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$171K/year (estimated)
Latest news
Startup Intros · Sep 2025
Reports DeepGrove's $500K seed round and lists investors including Carao Ventures, FinTech Collective, LFG Ventures, Y Combinator, Johannes De Waal, and Sergio Fogel.
DeepGrove · Mar 2025
Official product launch for Bonsai, describing a 0.5B-parameter ternary-weight language model that achieves competitive commonsense reasoning while training on far fewer tokens than comparable models.
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