Algolia is a private, venture-backed AI search and retrieval (search-as-a-service) platform founded 8 October 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, serving over 18,000 organizations across 150+ countries. It raised a $150M Series D in July 2021 at a $2.25B unicorn valuation (Accel-led earlier rounds), and acquired Morphl (2021) and Search.io (2022). CEO is Bernadette Nixon; CTO is Xavier Grand. No acquisition of Algolia itself or rename was found.