Pinecone Systems Inc.

Pinecone Systems Inc. is a cloud-native vector database company headquartered in New York, NY, founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, a former head of Amazon AI Labs. The company provides a managed vector database service that allows developers to store and query high-dimensional vector embeddings generated by machine learning models, without managing underlying infrastructure.

Pinecone's primary product is its serverless vector database, which supports use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and recommendation systems. The platform is used by engineering teams building AI-powered applications that require fast approximate nearest-neighbor search at scale. Pinecone integrates with major AI frameworks and model providers including OpenAI, Hugging Face, and LangChain.

The company raised a $100 million Series B round in April 2023 at a $750 million valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, following earlier rounds that brought total funding to approximately $138 million. Pinecone employs roughly 200-400 people. The company introduced a serverless pricing tier in early 2024, shifting from pod-based infrastructure to a consumption-based model.