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Algolia
Hosted search API helps product builders create lightning-fast, highly relevant search to connect their users with what matters
At a glance
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Algolia.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed12 investors entered at this stage
500 Global
Zillionize
Initialized Capital- LOLocalGlobe
Point Nine
Index Ventures- ASAnshu Sharma
Acequia Capital
Alven
Storm Ventures
Thibaud Elziere
Y Combinator
Series A6 investors entered at this stage
- ESErik Swan
- ISIlya Sukhar
Lead Edge Capital- SHSolomon Hykes
- KRKevin Rose
Accel
Series B and later14 investors entered at this stage
Twilio- SCSteadfast Financial Capital
Fidelity Investments- BCBlue Owl Capital
- WLWorld Innovation Lab
Salesforce Ventures- SFSAAStr Fund
- CVClark Valberg
- DTDes Traynor
DAG Ventures- RERevaia
Glynn Capital Management- JBJyoti Bansal
- LCLone Pine Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Algolia employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SESeapointEst. 2025
Sean MullaneyIreland
Sylvain UtardFrance
Liam Boogar-AzoulayUnited States
REReadMeEst. 2015
Gabriel DillonUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Algolia was the backer or acquirer, 2018–2022. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Algolia's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Algolia's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Algolia on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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