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Elastic

Elastic

Search. Observe. Protect.

PublicS2012Data InfrastructureSearchObservabilityOpen Sourceelastic.co

Founded in 2012 to commercialize the open-source Elasticsearch project, Elastic built a massive business on top of the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). The platform unifies search data for developers, providing lightning-fast log analytics, application observability, and security operations. Elastic completed its IPO on the NYSE in 2018.

Active Founders

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Shay Banon

Founder / CTO

Shay Banon created the original Elasticsearch codebase to build a recipe search engine for his wife. He went on to build Elastic into a multi-billion dollar data enterprise.

Elastic

Elastic

Founded2012
BatchS2012
Team Size3,200
StatusPublic
LocationMountain View, CA, USA
CategoryData Infrastructure