Teunis Steven Schuurman (born September 1975) is a Dutch technology and media entrepreneur, best known for co-founding and being the first CEO of Elastic, a data search and analytics company listed at the NYSE (ESTC).
[1] After stepping down as CEO of Elastic in 2017, he started to work towards dedicating his time and resources exclusively to philanthropy.
[2][3] He is also the co-founder of Atlantis Entertainment,[4] SpringSource[5] and the founder of the non-profit organisations the Dreamery Foundation[6] and FutureNL.
In 2005, Schuurman left Sogyo and became the co-owner and Director of the Amsterdam based JTeam, an Amsterdam-based software application development company.
Months after joining JTeam, Schuurman left and co-founded the open-source company SpringSource[5] with Rod Johnson, Jürgen Höller, and Alef Arendsen.
[9] Schuurman co-founded Elastic NV, formerly known by the name of its product Elasticsearch, with Shay Banon,[10] Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer.
[1] Schuurman has stated that he has limited interest in money and material items and plans to put his wealth to use for protecting future generations.
[1] In 2020, Schuurman founded The Dreamery Foundation,[6] which aims to positively contribute to keeping our planet habitable for future generations.
[18] In 2021 Schuurman joined The Giving Pledge, a campaign established by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade and recruit extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
[19] Leading up to the Dutch elections in March 2021, Schuurman made donations to political parties in The Netherlands.