Algolia is a French proprietary search-as-a-service platform, with its headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Paris and London.

Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, both originally from Paris, France.

[9] In January 2021, Algolia acquired Romanian AI and machine learning startup Morph.

[10] In July 2021, Algolia raised a $150 million Series D funding round and became a unicorn, with a valuation of $2.25 billion.

Algolia documented one attempt to remove all single points of failure in their architecture and proposed a worldwide infrastructure called Distributed Search Network to reply to a search query from any location closer to the source.