Algolia

A developer-friendly and enterprise-grade search API.

Y CombinatorWinter 2014ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSB2B

What they do

Problem

Websites and apps struggle to deliver fast, relevant, scalable search and discovery experiences without heavy engineering and infrastructure complexity.

Solution

Algolia provides a hosted, developer-friendly and enterprise-grade Search & Discovery API platform to power and scale search for web and mobile applications.

Who it's for

Developers and product teams at companies (especially e-commerce, media, and SaaS) who need search and discovery for their websites and mobile apps.

Founders

Nicolas Dessaigne

Founder/Board Member

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.

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Julien Lemoine

Founder/CTO

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.

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