Pinecone Systems, Inc.
Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable by providing long-term memory for AI applications.
At a Glance
- AI/ML developers
- Enterprise companies building AI applications
- Startups building generative AI products
- E-commerce companies (product recommendations)
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AI Tools by Pinecone Systems, Inc.
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Vector Database for AI Apps
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Products & Services
Purpose-built vector database for storing and searching vector embeddings at scale with fully managed infrastructure
State-of-the-art serverless vector database designed to make generative AI accurate, fast, and scalable
Integrated inference capabilities to simplify vector embeddings
AI assistant capabilities integrated with the vector database
Market Position
Pinecone is the leading and pioneering purpose-built vector database, ranked #1 on DB-Engines for vector databases and rated best on G2. The company created the vector database category in 2021. Positioned as critical infrastructure for the $110B generative AI market, disrupting the $9B search infrastructure market. Differentiators include fully managed service, serverless architecture, ease of use for teams of all sizes, and enterprise-grade features. Known for developer-friendly approach with strong community support.
Leadership
Founders
Edo Liberty
Former Director of Research at Amazon AI Labs (AWS) where he led the creation of Amazon SageMaker. Prior to AWS, Edo was Head of Research at Yahoo! where he led advanced machine learning initiatives focused on semantic search and recommendation systems. He holds a Ph.D. and completed his B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. He is also an adjunct professor.
Executive Team
Ash Ashutosh
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Accomplished three-time technical founder and CEO appointed in September 2025. Tech veteran with extensive experience growing companies.
Edo Liberty
Founder & Chief Scientist
Founder of Pinecone. Former Director of Research at Amazon AI Labs (AWS) where he led the creation of Amazon SageMaker. Previously Head of Research at Yahoo!. Ph.D. holder and adjunct professor.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Pinecone was founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty after he realized during his time at AWS and Yahoo! that there was no packaged solution for vector search systems available to companies without enormous engineering and data-science resources. While working on custom vector search systems at enormous scales at tech giants, he discovered the main difficulty companies faced in leveraging machine learning wasn't in training or deploying models, but in working with large amounts of vector data in real-time. Recognizing this widespread challenge as AI/ML initiatives expanded, Edo founded Pinecone to democratize access to vector databases and create the vector database category of solutions.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based pricing with subscription tiers. Revenue from API usage, database operations (storage, queries, writes), inference operations, and assistant features. Available through direct sales and cloud marketplaces (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Pricing Tiers
For trying out and small applications. Includes Pinecone Database On-Demand, Pinecone Inference, Pinecone Assistant, Console Metrics, Community Support via Discord.
For production applications at any scale. Pay-as-you-go for Database, Inference, and Assistant usage. 3-week trial includes $300 credits. Features: Dedicated Read Nodes, choose cloud and region, object storage import, multiple projects/users, SAML SSO, RBAC, Backup/Restore, Prometheus metrics, HIPAA add-on, free support with optional Developer or Pro support add-ons.
For mission-critical production applications. All Standard features plus additional enterprise-grade capabilities and support.
Target Markets
- AI/ML developers
- Enterprise companies building AI applications
- Startups building generative AI products
- E-commerce companies (product recommendations)
- Financial services (fraud detection)
- Healthcare (HIPAA-compliant AI applications)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Semantic search
- Product recommendations
- Image search
- Anomaly detection
- Fraud detection
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