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Meilisearch

Open source search engine

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • SaaS
  • API
  • Cloud Computing
  • No-Code
  • eCommerce
Saint-Merri, Paris, France

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Company mission

Meilisearch's mission is to help programmers create great search experiences.

Top investors

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46% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Search engines have formed the core of digital navigation since the birth of the internet, but despite this, search engines still show room for improvement. Integrating fast, customizable and intelligent search engines often require a lot of configuration and coding, a time-consuming and resource-heavy process.

Meilisearch develops an API for the easy implementation of an open-source search engine, focussing on being fast, customizable and aware of typos, without requiring coding or configuration. Through its API, the search engine facilitates the free application of filters, real-time results, geotagging, language detection, and permissions management, whilst also providing a faster cloud-based alternative that is currently in beta mode.

Internal search engines are nothing new, but Meilisearch’s open-source API approach facilitates complex and next-gen searches that would usually only be possible to businesses with vast resources. Through these innovations, the company claims that its search engine helps users find exactly what they are looking for, without the risk of missing the information due to inadequate search functions. 2022 funding was channeled towards developing the Meilisearch Cloud and its open-source software.

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Benefits

  • We strongly value the wellness of our employees and are committed to making MeiliSearch a benevolent place to work
  • Good work-life balance
  • 3 month paid parental leave
  • 4 day work week
  • Open to fully remote applications
  • Mental heal platform
  • Sports activities stipend
  • Stock options

Company values

  • Commitment - we are passionate about what we do
  • Quality & simplicity - we prefer quality over speed
  • Openness - we want to give back to open-source what it gave to us

Funding (2 rounds)

Oct 2022

$15m

SERIES A

Feb 2022

$5.3m

SERIES A

Total funding: $20.3m

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Leadership

Quentin de Quelen

(CEO)

Experience as Apprentice Engineer for Apizee from 2014 to 2015. Co-founded MeiliSearch as CEO in 2018.

Clément Renault

(CTO)

Graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from Ecole 42 bootcamp. Co-founded MeiliSearch in 2018 as CTO.

Thomas Payet

(COO)

Experience as Software Developer for TECH'4'TEAM from 2015 to 2017. Co-founded Meilisearch in 2018 as COO.