# Pinecone

> Pinecone is a New York based AI infrastructure company whose managed vector database stores and retrieves embeddings for search, recommendations and AI applications. It has expanded into hosted inference, document assistants, full text search and Nexus, a system that organizes enterprise knowledge for agents. Founder Edo Liberty launched the company in 2019; Ash Ashutosh became CEO in 2025.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Edo Liberty (Founder; former CEO; board member)
- **Products:** Pinecone Database, Pinecone Serverless, Pinecone Inference, Pinecone Assistant, Pinecone Nexus
- **Notable:** Launched its managed vector database publicly in 2021., Raised $138 million across seed, Series A and Series B announcements., Gong reported a tenfold cost reduction after switching its Pinecone workload to serverless.

## Products & services

- **Pinecone Database** — Fully managed vector database for dense and sparse retrieval, metadata filtering and, from 2026, integrated full text search.
- **Pinecone Serverless** — On demand vector database architecture separating storage from compute and billing by use.
- **Pinecone Inference** — Hosted embedding and reranking model APIs.
- **Pinecone Assistant** — Managed API for document grounded answers with references.
- **Pinecone Nexus** — Knowledge engine that compiles enterprise sources into structured context for AI agents.
- **Pinecone BYOC** — Enterprise deployment with the database data plane inside a customer cloud account.

## Achievements

- Launched its managed vector database publicly in 2021.
- Raised $138 million across seed, Series A and Series B announcements.
- Gong reported a tenfold cost reduction after switching its Pinecone workload to serverless.
- Pinecone reported more than 1 million developers and 10,000 customers in August 2026.
- Released Nexus generally in August 2026 and full text search generally in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced general availability of BYOC on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
- **2026-09** — Made integrated full text search generally available in Pinecone Database.
- **2026-08** — Said Nexus had reached general availability and reported more than 1 million developers and 10,000 customers.
- **2026-08** — Founder Edo Liberty stepped back from day to day responsibilities and remained a board member.

## Links

- Website: https://www.pinecone.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinecone-io
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/pinecone
- GitHub: https://github.com/pinecone-io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pinecone-io
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pineconeio/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29