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Pinecone is a technology company focused on developing search and database infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications.

Company Overview

• Established:: 2019
• creator: Edo Liberty
• Headquarters location: New York, with branches in Tel Aviv and San Francisco
• financingstate of affairs: Pinecone has raised a total of $138 million through multiple rounds of investment, including $100 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at $750 million. Major investors include Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital.

Core Products and Technologies

• core product: Pinecone's core product is a fully managed vector database for data-intensive AI applications designed to handle AI/ML tasks such as semantic search, recommender systems and data classification.
• Technical characteristics::
  • Vector search techniques: The database can efficiently store and retrieve high-dimensional data, providing a powerful framework for AI-driven search and analysis.
  • serverless technology: Pinecone is serverless, so users don't have to worry about managing and scaling databases, and can create accounts and indexes, and upload a handful or billions of vector embeddings in less than 30 seconds.
  • Multi-Algorithm Support: Supports a wide range of AI algorithms and models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and more.
  • usability: A complete software development kit (SDK) is provided for easy development and application.

Markets & Applications

• positioning (marketing): Pinecone's vector database technology disrupts the $9 billion search infrastructure market and is a critical component of the rapidly growing $110 billion generative AI market.
• client base: Pinecone has a wide range of customers, including companies large and small such as Microsoft, CVS, Shopify, Gong, HubSpot and Zapier. The customer base has rapidly expanded from a handful of adopters to over 1,500 customers today.
• application scenario: Pinecone's enterprise database software supports "vector search," a form of AI-driven search used by Google and other companies that searches through AI-generated interpretations of content to provide more relevant results and suggestions. For example, Notion utilizes Pinecone's serverless technology to enable instant answers from Q&A AI, dramatically reducing costs.

Honors and Recognition

• Pinecone was named to the "Inaugural Fortune Global Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Innovators List" on Nov. 24, 2023.
• Pinecone was named to the 2024 Forbes AI 50 list at #35 on April 16, 2024 with $138 million raised.

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), Pinecone has positioned its solution as a key tool for managing data and enhancing AI capabilities.Pinecone maintains a leadership position in the industry by virtue of its first-mover advantage and is committed to achieving a leadership position in the AI revolution.

Pinecone, a technology company specializing in AI search and database infrastructure, has demonstrated strong momentum and broad market prospects in the AI space with its innovative technology, broad customer base and strong financing capabilities.