

Pinecone

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. It combines state-of-the-art vector search libraries, advanced features such as filtering, and distributed infrastructure to provide high performance and reliability at any scale. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. We are engineers who built large machine learning platforms, databases, and search engines at AWS, Yahoo, Splunk, Databricks, and more. We are scientists who transformed businesses with ML applications such as shopping recommendations, online advertising, semantic search, anomaly detection, and more. We are researchers who collectively published more than 100 academic papers and patents on machine learning, systems, and algorithms.
Founding Year
2019
Headquarters
New York
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United States
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Total Funding Amount
$138.00M
Funds that Investested
Menlo Ventures
46 year old VC firm with >$5bn AUM investing in innovation-driven companies.
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Wing Venture Capital
No project is too early for Wing. They invest early, before it's obvious, often before product or revenue. They also put substantial capital and strategic resources into each company throughout its lifecycle.
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Tiger Global Management
Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.
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Investors that Investested
Peter Wagner
Founding Partner, Wing Venture Capital
Peter has led investments in dozens of early stage companies, more than 25 of which have gone on to complete IPO’s or successful acquisitions. These companies include Snowflake, Aporeto, BlueJeans Network, Cumulus Networks, Nimble Storage, Fusion-io, Redback Networks, Riverbed, Arrowpoint Communications, Infinera, Peribit, Topspin, Omneon, and Opower, to name a few. He currently works with a private company portfolio that includes Gong, Moogsoft, Ordr, Juvo, Tigera, Jellyfish, SetSail, among others. Before founding Wing, Peter helped lead Accel Partners for 15 years as Managing Partner. Prior to joining Accel, Peter was a line manager at Silicon Graphics, responsible for several generations of digital media and graphics workstation products. Peter previously worked with McKinsey and Company, and began his career as a physicist working in nuclear fusion research and aerospace.
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Shawn Kung
Founding Partner, LucidCloud
Shawn is a successful early-stage Angel/Advisor, Stanford entrepreneurship lecturer, former EIR, and Venture Partner (AV8 Ventures). He invested in a long list of startups from inception to acquisition/IPO, including Facebook (IPO), Zuora (IPO), Tenable (IPO), Cohesity ($10B pre-IPO), Pinecone, Armory, LeadIQ, Vectara, MotherDuck, Neon.tech, Omni Analytics and many rapid growth venture scale software startups. Focus areas are data-driven and deep tech B2B startups, from formation to Seed stage. Preference to PhDs and technical/product-driven CEO founders.
He founded GIT1K, an end-user angel syndicate for IT, Eng, Data, and Cyber leaders, as well as Founders Club, a 5000+ member startup community. Prior operational exits include Aster Data Systems (stealth/pre-seed to $300M exit) and Tenable Security (Series B to $3B IPO).
He founded GIT1K, an end-user angel syndicate for IT, Eng, Data, and Cyber leaders, as well as Founders Club, a 5000+ member startup community. Prior operational exits include Aster Data Systems (stealth/pre-seed to $300M exit) and Tenable Security (Series B to $3B IPO).
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