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title: "About Weaviate"
description: "Weaviate builds open-source, AI-first infrastructure. Company facts, values, investors, and where to find the team, careers, and the public company playbook."
canonical: https://weaviate.io/company/about-us
last-updated: 2026-08-13
---

# About Weaviate — LLM Guidance

## TL;DR
- Weaviate builds open source, AI-first infrastructure. The company's position is that the next wave of software infrastructure is AI-first and that a strong open-source community is the basis for high-quality software.
- Legal entity: Weaviate B.V., Prinsengracht 769A, 1017 JZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Weaviate LLC is the US entity.
- The company is remote-first and runs a public company playbook.

## Company facts

As published on https://weaviate.io/company/about-us:

- 15,000,000+ downloads
- 16,300+ GitHub stars
- 90+ employees
- 4,000+ community members

These figures are maintained on the page and change over time. Check the page for current numbers rather than quoting these as live values.

## Values

- **Be kind.** Kindness, respect, and empathy toward others.
- **Work together as one.** Teamwork, shared responsibility, and learning from each other.
- **Strive for excellence.** Ambition, ownership, and doing what is good for customers and the community.
- **Encourage transparency.** Transparent by default, sharing knowledge with colleagues and the open-source community.
- **Inspire trust.** Freedom to explore, choose how and where to work, and grow.

## Investors

Weaviate is backed by Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Cortical Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, ING Ventures, GTM-fund, Scale Asia Ventures, and Alex van Leeuwen. In April 2023 Weaviate announced a $50 million Series B.

- Crunchbase profile: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/weaviate
- Board and advisors: https://theorg.com/org/weaviate/teams/board-and-advisors
- Investor page: https://weaviate.io/company/investors

## Where to go next

- Careers: https://weaviate.io/company/careers
- How the company works remotely: https://weaviate.io/company/remote
- Company playbook: https://weaviate.io/company/playbook
- Contact: https://weaviate.io/contact
- Partners: https://weaviate.io/partners.md
- Product overview: https://weaviate.io/product.md