Listed in the Enterprise category, Pinecone is the only vector database distinguished as a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company
NEW YORK, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone – the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production – is proud to have been named to Fast Company's prestigious list of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2025. The only vector database to be honored, Pinecone is listed in the Enterprise category which recognizes organizations offering software as a service and other technologies that make other businesses more efficient and effective.
"Pinecone is an incredibly talented group of veteran experts in databases, cloud infrastructure, search, information retrieval, and AI pushing the envelope to achieve our mission of making AI knowledgeable," said Edo Liberty, founder and CEO of Pinecone. "Over the past 5+ years we've created the world's best vector database to empower companies to generate business value out of proprietary unstructured data that was previously unusable. I'm especially proud to be the leading choice among engineers for building scaled AI workloads in production."
Yesterday, Pinecone launched its latest architecture. The result of a months-long effort, with this update, Pinecone is now highly optimized for agentic workloads, in addition to search and recommendations. Early customers are already adding knowledge and memory capabilities to millions of agents.
This latest innovation follows the recent launch of Pinecone Assistant, an API service built to power grounded chat and agent-based applications with precision and ease. Introduced late last year, integrated inference allows developers to embed, rerank, and retrieve data with a single API while cascading retrieval makes it seamless to combine dense retrieval, sparse retrieval, and reranking into a unified search pipeline.
The World's Most Innovative Companies stands as Fast Company's hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year. To determine honorees, Fast Company's editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world.
"Our list of the Most Innovative Companies offers both a comprehensive look at innovation today and a playbook for the future," said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. "This year, we recognize companies that are harnessing AI in deep and meaningful ways, brands that are turning customers into superfans by overdelivering for them, and challengers that are introducing bold ideas and vital competition to their industries. At a time when the world is rapidly shifting, these companies are charting the way forward."
The full list of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com. It will also be available on newsstands beginning March 25.
ABOUT PINECONE
Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 5000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. For more information, visit pinecone.io.
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