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  "markdown": "CEO, Pinecone.\n\nAsh Ashutosh became chief executive of Pinecone in September 2025. He founded three storage and data infrastructure companies, Serano Systems, AppIQ and Actifio, and has been CTO of HP's storage division, a partner at Greylock and Global Director of Solution Sales at Google.\n\n## What Ash builds\n\n- [Pinecone API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone.md), graded BB, 77.2/100, in Retrieval \u0026 vector search. Managed, closed-source vector database with serverless indexes. CEO, Pinecone, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Edo Liberty](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/edo-liberty/), Founder and Chief Scientist, Pinecone, CEO until September 2025\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Wing Venture Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wing-venture-capital/)\n- [Menlo Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/menlo-ventures/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [ICONIQ](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/iconiq/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ash Ashutosh?\n\nAsh Ashutosh became chief executive of Pinecone in September 2025. He founded three storage and data infrastructure companies, Serano Systems, AppIQ and Actifio, and has been CTO of HP's storage division, a partner at Greylock and Global Director of Solution Sales at Google.\n\n### What does Pinecone make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Pinecone API + MCP from Pinecone. Managed, closed-source vector database with serverless indexes.\n\n### Who has invested in Pinecone?\n\nThe sources our research read name Wing Venture Capital, Menlo Ventures, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ.\n\n### How are Ash's tools graded?\n\nPinecone API + MCP is graded BB, 77.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.pinecone.io/company/\n- https://edoliberty.com/index.html\n- https://www.pinecone.io/\n- https://www.pinecone.io/contact/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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