Pinecone

Pinecone (operating at pinecone.io) is a premier vector database and knowledge infrastructure platform engineered to power high-performance, real-time retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and AI agent memory at global scale. Founded in 2019 by former AWS and Yahoo AI research director Edo Liberty and led by CEO Ash Ashutosh, San Francisco-headquartered Pinecone replaces complex, self-hosted open-source vector search clusters with a fully managed, serverless database architecture. Under the hood, Pinecone enables engineering teams to index, filter, and search multi-dimensional vector embeddings with ultra-low latency, high recall, and instant updates without managing underlying index maintenance or infrastructure overhead. Backed by $138M in total venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital, Pinecone serves thousands of enterprises and developers building context-aware generative AI applications and agentic intelligence workflows.