
Meilisearch is an open-source, AI-powered search engine designed for fast, relevant, and seamless integration into applications and workflows. It offers lightning-fast search capabilities, returning answers in under 50 milliseconds, and boasts a plug-and-play deployment with smart presets for zero configuration. Its core strengths lie in ultra-relevancy, full-text search, and advanced features like semantic, hybrid, multi-modal, and federated search, along with vector storage and geosearch. Meilisearch differentiates itself through a focus on developer experience, offering self-explanatory APIs and SDKs. Traction is demonstrated by customer success stories like Bookshop.org, which saw a 43% increase in search-based purchases after migrating from Elasticsearch, and CarbonGraph, which consolidated its search by migrating from Pinecone. The company is headquartered in Paris and is backed by notable investors.

Meilisearch is an open-source, AI-powered search engine designed for fast, relevant, and seamless integration into applications and workflows. It offers lightning-fast search capabilities, returning answers in under 50 milliseconds, and boasts a plug-and-play deployment with smart presets for zero configuration. Its core strengths lie in ultra-relevancy, full-text search, and advanced features like semantic, hybrid, multi-modal, and federated search, along with vector storage and geosearch. Meilisearch differentiates itself through a focus on developer experience, offering self-explanatory APIs and SDKs. Traction is demonstrated by customer success stories like Bookshop.org, which saw a 43% increase in search-based purchases after migrating from Elasticsearch, and CarbonGraph, which consolidated its search by migrating from Pinecone. The company is headquartered in Paris and is backed by notable investors.
Product: Open-source, developer-focused search engine with managed cloud offering supporting full-text, semantic, hybrid, vector, and geo search
Founded: Founded by Quentin de Quelen, Clément Renault, and Thomas Payet (project started ~2018–2019; public release 2020)
Performance: Designed for search-as-you-type with sub-50ms response targets; built in Rust
Funding: Series A $15M led by Felicis (announced Oct 10, 2022); reported total funding ~USD 21.76M
Headquarters: Paris
Application search and retrieval for websites and products seeking fast, relevant, and easy-to-integrate search functionality.
2018
Search / Developer Tools
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Participating investors included CRV, Seedcamp, LocalGlobe, Mango Capital, Guillermo Rauch and others
“Backed by venture firms including Felicis, CRV, Seedcamp, LocalGlobe, Mango Capital, Kima Ventures and angels (e.g., Guillermo Rauch)”