Who are Weaviate's decision-makers?
Weaviate is led by Bob van Luijt, with technical, product, and go-to-market ownership spread across the leadership team.
- CEO
- Bob van Luijt
- CTO/key exec
- Etienne Dilocker
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 90+ disclosed
- HQ
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Notable
- Open-source AI-native database
- Bob van LuijtCo-founder & CEOCo-founder since 2019Public face of Weaviate and steward of its open-source strategy.
- Etienne DilockerCo-founder & CTOCo-founder since 2019Leads the technical architecture behind the vector database.
- Paul de GrijpVP of EngineeringEngineering leadershipRuns engineering execution across cloud and database teams.
- John TrengroveDirector of Applied ResearchApplied research leadershipLeads research work around retrieval quality and AI-native database behavior.
Who leads Weaviate?
Bob van Luijt is Co-founder & CEO; Etienne Dilocker is Co-founder & CTO; Paul de Grijp is VP of Engineering; John Trengrove is Director of Applied Research. The founder or CEO usually sets company direction, while technical and product leaders shape build-versus-buy decisions.
Who actually makes buying decisions at Weaviate?
Most purchases start with the functional owner rather than the CEO. Engineering owns platform and developer-tool decisions, security reviews risk, finance confirms budget, legal handles terms, and procurement becomes more formal as contract size rises.
How is Weaviate organized as it scales?
Weaviate is organized around product, engineering, go-to-market, infrastructure, and operations. The right selling motion is to tie the pitch to one team's operating metric instead of sending a generic founder note.
As of June 2026.Sources:Weaviate about pageWeaviate pricingWeaviate Series B release
Weaviate — frequently asked questions
