Algolia is a French proprietary search-as-a-service platform, with its headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Paris and London. Its main product is a web search platform for individual websites.
Company
Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, both originally from Paris, France.[1][2] It was originally a company focused on offline search on mobile phones. Later it was selected to be part of Y Combinator's Winter 2014 class.[3][2]
Starting with two data centers in Europe and the US, Algolia opened a third center in Singapore in March 2014,[4] and as of 2019, claimed to be present in over 70 data centers across 16 worldwide regions.