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Steven Schuurman

Founder

Steven Schuurman 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

Steven Schuurman is listed as a founder of Elastic on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Career Timeline

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  1. 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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  2. 2012 Company founded

    Elastic was founded in 2012 per the company profile source on file.

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  3. 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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  4. 2018 Development

    October 2018: Elastic lists on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ESTC.

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  5. 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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  6. 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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Steven Schuurman is listed as a founder of Elastic on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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