Pinecone Systems, Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc., generally known as Pinecone, is a United States software company focused on cloud-native vector database technology and infrastructure for AI applications. Founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, the company grew from Liberty’s experience building large-scale custom vector search systems at AWS and Yahoo!. Pinecone’s stated mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Its company history describes the original aim as making the storage and retrieval infrastructure needed for advanced AI applications accessible to engineering teams of different sizes and levels of AI expertise. Pinecone provides a managed platform for storing and retrieving data used by AI-powered products. Its offerings include Pinecone Database, a serverless, object-storage-based vector database; Pinecone Nexus, which the company describes as helping agents become more accurate, faster, and lower cost; Dedicated Read Nodes; Pinecone Assistant for production-grade agent-based applications; BYOC deployment; and Pinecone Marketplace, which offers production-ready assistants. The company also presents capabilities such as integrations and enterprise-grade security. Its site describes a workflow that can include searching, upserting, and reranking through a shared index, and promotes use in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent applications. Pinecone serves developers and organizations building applications that need to retrieve relevant information from data, including AI agents, chatbots, and recommendation systems. Its official company page says its platform powers applications for more than 10,000 customers and 1 million developers worldwide. The homepage names organizations including Adobe, Workday, L’Oréal, Microsoft, Mercado Libre, OpenAI, Cohere, Fox, The Washington Post, Asana, Gong, Cisco, and Zapier as customers. These are examples identified by Pinecone, rather than a complete customer list. Pinecone is headquartered in New York City according to the supplied Russian-language Wikipedia article. The company’s official company page identifies Ash Ashutosh as CEO and lists leaders across finance and operations, marketing, product, engineering, sales, communications, planning, and people operations. The supplied material describes Pinecone as an active software business but does not establish a parent company, ultimate owner, or public-market listing.

Pinecone was founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty. Before founding the company, Liberty had worked on research and large-scale vector search systems at AWS and Yahoo!. Pinecone’s official account explains that his work on custom vector search systems led him to recognize the potential of combining AI models with vector search, while also identifying a gap: teams without extensive engineering and data-science resources lacked an accessible packaged solution. The company was created to provide storage and retrieval infrastructure for modern AI applications and to make that infrastructure usable by engineering teams with varied levels of AI expertise. Pinecone’s product focus is vector database technology, which supports retrieval based on the relationship or relevance of data and can be used as a building block in AI applications. The supplied Russian-language Wikipedia article describes applications such as chatbots, recommendation services, and generative AI products, and gives the example of pharmaceutical developer Frontier Medicines using Pinecone to search and process information about molecules. The article also explains that the increased use of large language models created demand for faster and more capable search tools. Pinecone’s managed-service approach is intended to reduce the infrastructure work required of application teams and support hosting, maintenance, and scaling. The Russian-language article reports that Pinecone received $10 million in seed funding in January 2021, with Wing Venture Capital as the principal investor and its founder, Peter Wagner, joining Pinecone’s board. It further reports that the company raised $100 million in 2023 at a valuation of $750 million. These are figures reported by that article; the supplied official company pages do not provide further detail on the financing. The same article reports a headcount of 150 in April 2024. Pinecone’s current official product overview presents a broader portfolio than a standalone database: Pinecone Database, Pinecone Nexus, Dedicated Read Nodes, Pinecone Assistant, BYOC deployment, and Pinecone Marketplace. The company describes these products as supporting accurate, fast, and cost-effective AI applications and agents. Its company page states that the platform serves more than 10,000 customers and 1 million developers worldwide. The homepage lists a range of named customer organizations, including Adobe, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, The Washington Post, Gong, and Zapier. The official company page identifies Ash Ashutosh as CEO and lists leaders for several functional areas. The supplied material does not specify an ultimate owner or parent company and does not establish a public listing.

• 2024

  Included in Forbes AI lists

• 2023

  Funding round and valuation reported

• 2021

  Seed funding reported

• 2019

  Pinecone founded by Edo Liberty

Pinecone positions itself as a trusted AI knowledge company and provider of managed vector database and retrieval infrastructure, emphasizing accurate, fast, and cost-effective AI applications and agents.

• Pinecone Database

  A serverless, object-storage-based vector database for storing and retrieving data.

• Pinecone Nexus

  A product presented as helping AI agents become more accurate, faster, and lower cost.

• Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes

  Dedicated, provisioned vector database read nodes.

• Pinecone Assistant

  A product for building production-grade agent-based applications.

• Pinecone BYOC

  A deployment option for a zero-access Pinecone environment.

• Pinecone Marketplace

  A marketplace for production-ready assistants.

• Build a managed, accessible vector search serviceOther

• 2026.08.07

  Reported2026.08.07

  Pinecone makes Nexus generally available[6]Pinecone 正式推出 Nexusitbrief.news

  Pinecone made its Nexus knowledge engine generally available. The product is designed to give enterprise AI agents governed access to knowledge drawn from proprietary data.

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1. 1The trusted AI knowledge company | Pineconepinecone.io
2. 2Company | Pineconepinecone.io
3. 3Pinecone Products | Pineconepinecone.io
4. 4Pinecone Systems Inc. (Wikidata)wikidata.org
5. 5Pinecone Systems (Russian Wikipedia)ru.wikipedia.org
6. 6Pinecone 正式推出 Nexusitbrief.news