Pinecone, founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, is a leading provider of vector database technology designed specifically for artificial intelligence applications. Liberty, previously the Director of Research at AWS and Head of Amazon AI Labs, started Pinecone to solve the infrastructure challenges involved in similarity search at scale—an essential component of modern AI systems.

The company's core product officially launched in 2021 and enables developers to perform fast, scalable vector search used in applications like semantic search, recommendation engines, and anomaly detection. Built as a serverless, fully managed solution, Pinecone eliminates the need for complex infrastructure management and supports real-time indexing, hybrid (dense + sparse) search, and namespace-based data partitioning for multi-tenant use cases.

Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Pinecone has grown rapidly, scaling its team to over 185 employees. In April 2023, the company raised a $100 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $138 million and valuation to approximately $750 million. Other investors include ICONIQ Growth, Menlo Ventures, Wing VC, and Tiger Global.

Pinecone’s customers include major platforms such as Gong, Zapier, Shopify, and HubSpot, which use the vector database to power mission-critical AI services. Its integration ecosystem supports all major cloud providers and popular LLM tooling, including OpenAI and LangChain. In 2025, Pinecone was named to Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” list in the Enterprise category.

As enterprises rapidly adopt retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-based architectures, Pinecone has positioned itself as the foundational infrastructure layer for building production-grade AI systems.