Pinecone

Pinecone is the leading managed vector database company, providing production-ready infrastructure for similarity search at scale. Their serverless architecture and simple API have made Pinecone the default choice for RAG applications and semantic search.

Founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, former head of Amazon AI Labs. Initially launched as an ML infrastructure company, pivoted to vector databases. Grew exponentially with the LLM wave in 2023. Introduced serverless pricing in 2024.