How The Khronos Group grew The Khronos Group to $5.3M revenue with a 48 person team in 2025.

The people listed below are not employees of Khronos, but are the volunteers, work group chairs and paid subcontractors that help make the Khronos Group so productive The Khronos® Group was founded in January of 2000 by leading media-centric companies as a not-for-profit, member-funded consortium. Khronos and its members organizations (currently comprised of 110+ organizations ranging across business and academia) are dedicated to the creation of royalty-free, open standards for authoring, accelerating and accessing visual computing on a wide variety of operating systems and devices. Khronos APIs are created by the industry, for the industry with a Board of Promoters that includes some of the biggest companies and institutions in technology. The Khronos Group is recognized as the standard-setter for providing APIs that enable powerful new graphics as well as compute, media authoring and acceleration capabilities on desktop, embedded and mobile platforms. Khronos APIs are utilized not only by operating system vendors, but also in applications ranging from consumer games to scientific visualization--they have become an indispensible enabler for accessing silicon acceleration across devices, developer tools and hardware components. Each API is accompanied by an exhaustive set of conformance tests, which must be passed in order for the API trademark to be utilized by any company implementing a Khronos specification.

Last updated Dec 22, 2025