# LlamaIndex

> LlamaIndex is a San Francisco company building the data framework and cloud platform that lets enterprises turn messy unstructured documents into knowledge agents powered by large language models. Its open-source library is one of the most-used scaffolds for retrieval-augmented generation, and its hosted product, LlamaCloud, packages parsing, extraction, and indexing for production teams.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jerry Liu (Co-founder & CEO), Simon Suo (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~95
- **Products:** LlamaIndex (open-source framework), LlamaCloud, LlamaParse, LlamaExtract, LlamaHub
- **Notable:** Grew from a weekend project (originally named GPT Index) to a category-defining framework in under two years., ~40,000 GitHub stars and ~3M monthly downloads on the open-source library., LlamaParse processed hundreds of millions of documents before reaching general availability.

## Products & services

- **LlamaIndex (open-source framework)** — Python and TypeScript framework for ingesting, indexing and querying data with LLMs. Roughly 3M monthly downloads and ~40k GitHub stars.
- **LlamaCloud** — Hosted platform for building, deploying and scaling knowledge agents over unstructured data. Available as SaaS or in a customer VPC.
- **LlamaParse** — Document parser tuned for complex PDFs, tables, charts and multi-language files. Went GA alongside the Series A.
- **LlamaExtract** — Schema-based structured extraction service that turns documents into JSON with citations and confidence scores.
- **LlamaHub** — Open catalog of community-contributed data connectors, readers and tools for the LlamaIndex framework.

## Achievements

- Grew from a weekend project (originally named GPT Index) to a category-defining framework in under two years.
- ~40,000 GitHub stars and ~3M monthly downloads on the open-source library.
- LlamaParse processed hundreds of millions of documents before reaching general availability.
- Closed $19M Series A in March 2025 led by Norwest Venture Partners.
- Attracted strategic investment from Databricks and KPMG.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Announced $19M Series A and general availability of LlamaCloud and LlamaParse.
- **2025** — Closed strategic investments from Databricks and KPMG.
- **2026-01** — LlamaIndex Newsletter highlights continued product expansion across agents, parsing and extraction.

## Links

- Website: https://www.llamaindex.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/llamaindex
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/llama_index
- GitHub: https://github.com/run-llama
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LlamaIndex

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Last updated: 2026-05-19