Zilliz
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 2017 |
| Founder 👔 | Charles Xie |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Redwood City, U.S. |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Services | Fully-managed vector database cloud service (SaaS) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 100–500 (2025) |
| 🌐 Website | zilliz |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Zilliz is a global technology company focused on developing high-performance, cloud-native data management solutions tailored for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications[1].
The company's primary products are Milvus[2], an LFAI open-source distributed vector database, and Zilliz Cloud, a fully managed vector database cloud service (SaaS).
History
Zilliz was founded in 2017 by a group of engineers aiming to build infrastructure for managing large-scale unstructured data through AI-native architectures[3]. In 2019, Zilliz released Milvus, which later joined Linux Foundation as an incubation project in January 2020 and became a graduate[4] in June 2021.
In 2018, Zilliz secured $10 million in Series A funding, led by Morningside Venture Capital and Yunqi Partners[5]. In November 2020, the company raised a $43 million Series B round led by Hillhouse Capital. This was followed by a $60 million Series B+ extension in August 2022, led by Prosperity7 Ventures[6] , bringing total funding to over $113 million.
In November 2022, Zilliz Cloud became available and ready for enterprise production workloads[7]
In February 2024, Zilliz launched a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment model, enabling users to deploy Zilliz Cloud’s data plane within their own virtual private clouds, enhancing data control and compliance.
See also
- Vector database
- Milvus
References
- ↑ "Zilliz: Powering global AI with a leading vector database service".
- ↑ "Milvus open-source vector database on GitHub". GitHub.
- ↑ "Zilliz AI infrastructure stack".
- ↑ "LF AI & Data Foundation Announces Graduation of Milvus Project". June 23, 2021.
- ↑ "Zilliz: Vector Database for Enterprise-grade AI".
- ↑ Liao, Ingrid Lunden and Rita (2022-08-24). "Zilliz raises $60M, relocates to SF". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ↑ "Zilliz Unveils Zilliz Cloud, the New Industry Standard for Vector Database as a Service".
External links
This article "Zilliz" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Zilliz. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
