Simon Willnauer is listed as a founder of Elastic on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
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Simon Willnauer
Founder
Simon Willnauer is listed as a founder of Elastic on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
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Quick Facts
- Role Founder
- Company Elastic
- Country Netherlands
- Industry AI in Cybersecurity
- Founded 2012
- Known For Elastic is a useful reminder that a large share of modern AI-assisted threat detection runs on…
- Status Active
- Last Reviewed Aug 2026
Executive Summary
Simon Willnauer is listed as a founder of Elastic on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.
Career Timeline
Verified company milestones linked to this executive’s organization.
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2004
Product
2004u20132010: Shay Banon builds early recipe-search prototypes for his wife, then releases Elasticsearch as an open-source project in 2010.
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2012
Company founded
Elastic was founded in 2012 per the company profile source on file.
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2012
Development
2012: Banon, Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness, and Simon Willnauer found Elasticsearch BV (later renamed Elastic) to commercialize the project alongside Kibana and Logstash.
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2018
Development
October 2018: Elastic lists on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ESTC.
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2025
Development
Fiscal 2025: Elastic reports revenue of $1.483 billion, up 17% year over year, driven in part by AI-enhanced Elastic Cloud offerings.
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2026
Development
June 2026: Elastic is named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for worldwide SIEM and a Strong Performer in Forrester's Extended Detection and Response Platforms evaluation, and ships native Prometheus support alongside new agentic investigation experiences in Elastic Security.
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Elastic Search AI Platform
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