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Pinecone

Managed vector database powering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for AI applications
AI 📍 San Mateo, CA Founded 2019
Current Valuation
$750M
as of 2023-Q2
PRIVATE

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Pinecone going public?
No. Pinecone has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Pinecone's valuation in 2026?
Pinecone is valued at $750M as of 2023-Q2, set by its Series B ($100M, Apr 2023). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Pinecone filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Pinecone.
Who are Pinecone's investors?
Pinecone's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, ICONIQ Growth.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Pinecone is the dominant managed vector database for retrieval-augmented generation. Founded by Edo Liberty, who built Amazon SageMaker's vector search infrastructure. Pioneered serverless vector search in 2024, dramatically reducing the cost of running RAG at scale. Powers AI applications at Notion, Microsoft, Gong, Shopify, and thousands of AI startups.

Company Profile

CEO
Edo Liberty
Founded
2019
HQ
San Mateo, CA
Employees
~100
Total Raised
$138M
Growth
Strong (open-source ecosystem flywheel)
Last Round
Series B — $100M (Apr 2023) · Lead: Andreessen Horowitz
IPO Status
no imminent plans

Fundraising Status

Series B · $100M · 3y 4mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $138M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$1.66
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month-8.8%6-month-37.6%1-year-60.2%All-time-76.6%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B$100MApr 2023Andreessen Horowitz—

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
15
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
833
across all models
Followers
84
Top model
ConstBERT
381 downloads / 30d
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Pinecone" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
8
via ashby
Product-build share
63%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 63% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month8Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering5Sales & GTM2Marketing1
■ product-building   ■ go-to-market / G&A
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Database TeamSenior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval InfrastructureSenior/Staff Software Engineer, ExperienceSenior/Staff Software Engineer, ExperienceSenior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval InfrastructureSenior Account Executive - Enterprise
Counted from Pinecone's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Edo Liberty

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz · Menlo Ventures · Wing Venture Capital · ICONIQ Growth

Products

  • Pinecone Serverless
  • Pinecone Pod-based DB
  • Pinecone Assistant
  • Pinecone Inference API

Competitors

Weaviate · Qdrant · Chroma · Milvus · Postgres pgvector · MongoDB Atlas Vector Search
AI InfrastructureVector DatabaseRAGDeveloper Tools
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2023-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.