Pinecone Serverless Vector Database

Pinecone was founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty and is based in New York, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. It builds a managed vector database so that companies can add semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation and agent memory to their applications without running search infrastructure.

The serverless database stores dense and sparse vectors with metadata filtering, namespaces and full-text search, and scales to billions of vectors with updates searchable within seconds. Around it sit Pinecone Assistant for managed RAG, the Nexus knowledge engine for agents, hosted embedding and reranking models, Dedicated Read Nodes and a BYOC option that runs Pinecone inside the customer's own cloud account. It reports more than 10,000 customers including Vanguard, ZoomInfo, Gong and TaskUs.

• Serverless index: dense and sparse vectors with metadata filtering and up to 1,000,000 namespaces on Enterprise.
• Full-text search: BM25 with Lucene syntax and fuzzy matching alongside vector search.
• Integrated models: hosted embedding, sparse embedding and reranking models plus a Documents API.
• Pinecone Assistant: managed RAG and chat knowledge system.
• Nexus: knowledge engine for AI agents, generally available since August 2026.
• BYOC and Dedicated Read Nodes: deployment in the customer's cloud and dedicated capacity for read-heavy loads.

• Banks and insurers in Vietnam building RAG chatbots over product documents and policies.
• E-commerce platforms adding semantic product search and recommendations.
• Customer support centres giving agents an AI knowledge assistant over tickets and manuals.

• No infrastructure to manage: serverless billing based on operations performed.
• Scales to billions of vectors and thousands of queries per second.
• Vanguard reported 12% more accurate responses and ZoomInfo a 50% increase in user engagement.
• Runs on AWS, Azure and GCP, or inside the customer's cloud via BYOC for data residency.

Generative AI assistants, enterprise search and AI agents all depend on fast retrieval over company knowledge, making vector databases a core layer of the AI stack. Banks, telecoms and e-commerce firms in Vietnam and Southeast Asia building chatbots and copilots need managed retrieval that meets security and data residency requirements.

Founded 2019 by Edo Liberty, headquartered in New York. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. More than 10,000 customers and 1M+ developers. Paid plans carry SOC 2, GDPR and ISO 27001, with HIPAA available.