Elastic N.V. (ESTC)

Elastic N.V. is a technology company known for its Elasticsearch search and analytics engine. Founded in 2012 by Shay Banon, Elastic helps businesses search, analyze, and visualize data in real time. With its open-source roots, the company has grown to offer a suite of products, including the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), enabling diverse applications ranging from enterprise search to security analytics and observability solutions. As of 2023, Ash Kulkarni serves as the CEO. Elastic went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018 under the ticker symbol ESTC and has since been a key player in the industry, empowering organizations to turn data into actionable insights. The company prides itself on its distributed, free-spirited culture and its commitment to transparency and open collaboration.