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A developer-friendly and enterprise-grade search API.
Our mission is to make every search interaction meaningful & rewarding, through developer-friendly and enterprise-grade APIs. Algolia is the leading Search & Discovery API for websites and mobile apps. We help the most innovative companies across e-commerce, media and SaaS industries create powerful, relevant and scalable discovery experiences for their users. Unlike other solutions, our hosted platform reduces the complexities of building and scaling a fast, relevant digital experience and helps teams accelerate development time. More than 9,000 companies like Under Armour, Twitch, Periscope, Medium and Stripe rely on Algolia to manage 50+ billion search queries a month. Founded in 2012, we're backed by $184M in funding from Accel Partners, Alven Capital, Point Nine Capital and Storm Ventures. The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York, and Atlanta. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com. --- We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive under autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background
Algolia provides an AI-driven search and retrieval platform for developers and enterprises, combining search, AI-assisted results, and generative capabilities to power contextual experiences. The platform emphasizes agentic, generative, and search-based experiences across various use cases and industries.
Algolia offers an AI search and retrieval platform that surfaces relevant content quickly, supports recommendations and personalization, and includes generative capabilities such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for conversational experiences. It provides agent Studio for creating, testing, and deploying AI agents, MCP Server for managing indices within workflows, data enrichment and transformation tools, and pre-built integrations and UI components. The platform is designed to be deployed across multiple data centers worldwide and connects to existing stacks via libraries and APIs, enabling fast implementation and on-brand AI responses.
Who it’s for: Developers, product teams, and enterprises seeking scalable AI-powered search, retrieval, and generative experiences across e-commerce, content, marketplaces, media, SaaS, and more.
Active marketing and events; significant enterprise focus and developer-oriented tooling; public emphasis on customer adoption and partnerships.
Nicolas is currently a general partner at YC. He is also the co-founder of Algolia (YC W14), a growth stage Search API used by millions of developers. He led the company as CEO up to 350 people before hiring a successor in 2020. Originally from France, he currently lives in El Cerrito, CA with his wife and 3 kids. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nantes.
Julien is a search veteran who’s been working in the search landscape for over 10 years, with work experience in Thales and Exalead. He participated in the design of three different search engines prior to co-founding Algolia with Nicolas and is the author of the different algorithms responsible for Algolia's super fast performance. Julien is also passionate about imparting knowledge and spent some time teaching at his Alma Mater, EPITA. He holds an engineering degree from the same institution.
How Algolia’s homepage introduced itself over the years — each line is the page title the web actually saw, linked to that moment’s archived capture.
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