
Jina AI
ACQUIREDJina AI GmbH
StartupAI Lab
Jina
German AI company from Berlin building search foundation models — embeddings, rerankers and readers for semantic search and RAG. Acquired by Elastic in October 2025.
Founded2020
HQBerlin
Jina AI
Founded 2020 · Berlin, GermanyJina AI (Jina AI GmbH) is a German artificial intelligence company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin. It specializes in search foundation models, developing embedding models, rerankers, readers and small language models used to build semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Many of its models (including the jina-embeddings, jina-reranker and jina-clip families) are released as open source while also being offered commercially through usage-based APIs. In October 2025, Jina AI was acquired by Elastic N.V.
Founders
Domain of activity
3 areas · 4 technologies · 1 industriesWhat they do3Areas
- Language models
- Multimodal models
- AI infrastructure
How they do it4Technologies
- Foundation Models
- Multimodal AI
- NLP
- RAG
Who for1Industries
- Software & Technology
Global presence
HQ Berlin · 1 regionsGlobal
Scale & funding
founded 20202020founded
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
acquiredstatus
Organizational relations
1 strategic relationsStrategic relations
1- Acquired byJina AI GmbH was acquired by Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) on October 9, 2025.2025 →
Profile & metadata
4 classification · 5 external linksClassification
- Statusacquired
- Development stagegrowth
- Listed onNo
- Organization typeStartup
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