Elastic NV

Elastic NV is an American - Dutch company that was founded in 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and was previously known as Elasticsearch.[2] Elastic NV is a search company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, security, observability, and analytics use cases.[3]

Elastic N.V.
FormerlyElasticsearch
TypePublic company (NV)
IndustrySoftware
Founded2012
Founder
Headquarters
Key people
  • Ashutosh Kulkarni (CEO)
  • Shay Banon (CTO)
  • Janesh Moorjani (CFO)
  • Sally Jenkins (CMO)
  • Kevin Kluge (SVP Engineering)
  • Leah Sutton (SVP Global HR)
ProductsSearch software
Revenue $427.6 million(2020)[1]
Number of employees
1,000+
Websitewww.elastic.co

The company develops the Elastic Stack—Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash—previously known as the ELK Stack,[4] free and paid proprietary features (formerly called X-Pack), Elastic Cloud (a family of SaaS offerings including the Elasticsearch Service), and Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE).[5][6]

Elasticsearch technology is used by eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix.[7][8] Elasticsearch is also implemented in use cases such as application search, site search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, security analytics (also used to augment SIEM applications), and business analytics. The Elasticsearch meetup community totals more than 100,000 members.[9] Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol ESTC.[10]

In 2017, Elastic acquired Swiftype, a provider of search and index software.[11]

In 2019, Elastic acquired Endgame, an endpoint security provider.

In 2021, Elastic acquired build.security,[12] a cloud security company focusing on policy and compliance and Cmd,[13] a cloud security company focusing on infrastructure detection and response (IDR).

References
  1. "Elastic N.V. Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2020 Financial Results". 3 June 2020.
  2. Kepes, Ben. "Elasticsearch Changes Its Name, Enjoys An Amazing Open Source Ride And Hopes To Avoid Mistakes". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  3. DeFrancesco, Robert (2019-09-29). "Elastic's Core Search Technology Powers Multiple Growth Levers". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  4. Gupta, Yuvraj (2017). Mastering Elastic Stack. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing. pp. 11–13. ISBN 978-1-78646-001-1.
  5. "Elastic Cloud: Hosted Elasticsearch, Hosted Search | Elastic". www.elastic.co. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  6. Shukla, Pranav (2017). Learning Elastic Stack 6.0: A beginner's guide to distributed search. Birmingham, UK: PACKT. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-78728-186-8.
  7. Ward, Mark (2019-07-12). "Why search is no longer all about Google". www.bbc.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  8. "Elastic enters APM space with Opbeat acquisition". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  9. "Elasticsearch groups". Meetup. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  10. Colville, Jordan Novet, Waverly (2018-10-05). "Elastic ESTC IPO stock makes debut on NYSE". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  11. "Elastic acquires search startup Swiftype". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  12. "Elastic and build.security: Shifting left together to secure the cloud". Elastic.co. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  13. "Elastic and Cmd join forces to help you take command of your cloud workloads". Elastic.co. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-25.


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