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Funding and backers
Total raised
$100M
1 round on record
Latest round
$100M
Venture round · Apr 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
78
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
4
Andreessen Horowitz, Converge
The money's age
Long since its last round
42 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 3, 2023
Partnership Pinecone and Datadog collaborate to deliver enterprise-grade observability and monitoring to vector databases and Generative AI applications · prnewswire.com
May 19, 2023
On the Hacker News front page LangChain: The Missing Manual · 164 points
Apr 10, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $100M · SEC Form D
Aug 24, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Rust – A hard decision pays off · 474 points
Mar 14, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Introduction to K-Means Clustering · 257 points
Dec 14, 2021
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: I made a free course, 'NLP for Semantic Search'
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2023 | $100M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Pinecone Systems, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Robert WiederholdExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Lior EhrenfeldExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Edo LibertyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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News
Pinecone Open-Sources VQ-Bench Vector Quantization Framework
Pinecone has released VQ-bench, an open-source framework for building and benchmarking vector quantization methods, in a September 17, 2026 announcement by Ashwin Padaki, Amir Ingber, and Edo Liberty. The release pairs a...
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The Ceiling Was Never the Model
Pinecone is the trusted AI knowledge company. Its AI knowledge platform-Database, Nexus, and Marketplace-powers accurate, fast, cost-effective AI for 10,000+ customers and 1M developers worldwide.
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VDBBench Leaderboards Zilliz
Compare cloud vector database insertion readiness, search throughput, cold latency, and cost profiles using VDBBench raw benchmark artifacts.
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances - no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol' days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino de
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Vector Storage Costs: S3, OpenSearch, pgvector, Pinecone
Discover the true cost of vector storage: S3 Vectors, OpenSearch, pgvector, and Pinecone. Dive into real workloads and find the best fit for your needs.
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Nearly Optimal Attention Coresets
Search through billions of items for similar matches to any object, in milliseconds. It's the next generation of search, an API call away.
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Pinecone Nexus: The Knowledge Engine for Agents
Pinecone Nexus is a knowledge engine for the agentic AI era, moving reasoning from retrieval to compilation - with KnowQL as the standard query language for agents.
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Why Your Pinecone Index Keeps Breaking (and the Vector Ops Fix) Decompressed Learn
You have CI/CD for your frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Why is your AI data still a manual upsert-and-pray process? Introducing Vector Ops: deployments for your vector database.
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True, Relevant, and Wrong: The Applicability Problem in RAG
RAG systems can retrieve correct, well-cited information and still get the answer wrong. Not because the source is bad, but because it doesn't govern the case at hand. This post names the problem and maps the ways it fractures at scale.
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I Built a Module System for a Language That Doesn't Have One
How I built PineCone, a module bundler for PineScript. TradingView's scripting language has no module system and no scope, so I had to get creative with AST manipulation and identifier renaming to make multi-file development possible.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Pinecone over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
31
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Rust
Go
Java
C++
Databases
OpenSearch
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
AI & ML
LLM
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31 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$105k – $270k
Open positions
4
4
Jobs
Junior
25%
Staff
75%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $105k | $105k |
| Staff | 3 | $270k | $210k – $270k |
Highest paying role
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Database Team
$270k
Normalized to USD per year
People

Robert Wiederhold
Executive Officer, Director

Lior Ehrenfeld
Executive Officer

Edo Liberty
Executive Officer, Director

Peter Levine
Director

Ilan Stern
Director

Peter Wagner
Director

Tim Tully
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
122 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
60% ▼
Marketing
20% ▼
Solutions
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Recommender Systems to stack
Sep 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Embeddings to stack
Sep 2026
Added Datadog to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Aug 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Aug 2026
Added Semantic Search to stack
Aug 2026
Added Knowledge Graph to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York
United States
HQ
New York City HQ
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering $214k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Solutions
127 W 26th St. 6th Fl., New York, NY 10001
Jobs
$90k – $105k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York
Python
JavaScript
Pinecone
AI/ML
Embeddings
RAG
Recommender Systems
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
Azure
AWS
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$190k – $270k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • New York
Python
Go
Java
Rust
C++
Pinecone
OpenSearch
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Semantic Search
Hybrid Search
Semantic Search
Knowledge Graph
DevOps
Terraform
Pulumi
Kubernetes
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$190k – $270k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
Rust
C++
Pinecone
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Financials
Total raised
$100M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $100M | Details |

Andreessen Horowitz
Converge
Menlo Ventures
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