Why Pinecone matters
Pinecone is the best-known standalone vector database, the storage layer many companies use to ground LLM answers in their own data. On September 8, 2025 it named Ash Ashutosh CEO and moved founder Edo Liberty to chief scientist to push enterprise sales. Its last priced round, a $100 million Series B in April 2023, valued it at $750 million.
The numberNamed Ash Ashutosh CEO on September 8, 2025; founder Edo Liberty moved to chief scientist
On The All Things AI 100
Listed under Data and infrastructure. Databases, data pipelines, and the plumbing under AI applications.
Quick answers
- What does Pinecone do?
- Managed vector database used to store and search embeddings for retrieval-augmented AI applications. Pinecone is the best-known standalone vector database, the storage layer many companies use to ground LLM answers in their own data.
- What AI capabilities does Pinecone offer?
- Pinecone offers a managed vector database that stores embeddings and runs similarity search for retrieval-augmented applications, semantic search, and recommendations. Business users create serverless or dedicated indexes, run dense and sparse retrieval, and can use integrated embedding and reranking. Pinecone Assistant lets teams upload documents and ask questions through an API that returns answers grounded in those files.
- Why is Pinecone on The All Things AI 100?
- Pinecone is listed under Data and infrastructure. Databases, data pipelines, and the plumbing under AI applications. Named Ash Ashutosh CEO on September 8, 2025; founder Edo Liberty moved to chief scientist.
- Where is Pinecone based, and who owns it?
- Pinecone is based in New York, NY, was founded in 2019 and is private, Series B.