Elastic (ESTC) stock & equity tools

Elastic is a Dutch-American software company that provides a platform for enterprise search, observability, and cybersecurity. Its product enables users to search and analyze large-scale data, monitor system performance, and detect anomalies. Originally known as Elasticsearch, the company was founded in 2012 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and has maintained its operational headquarters in both the Netherlands and San Francisco, California, US. Elastic is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ESTC.

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Elasticsearch began as a side project Shay Banon released as open source in February 2010, a distributed search engine built on Apache Lucene, designed to be easy to deploy and query at scale. Banon, Steven Schuurman, Simon Willnauer, and Uri Boness co-founded Elastic N.V. in Amsterdam in 2012 to commercialize the project alongside the Elastic Stack: Kibana for dashboards, Logstash for data ingestion, and Beats for lightweight agents. The stack became the dominant open-source logging and observability toolchain for cloud-native infrastructure. Elastic IPO'd on NYSE as ESTC in October 2018 and reported $1.48 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2025.

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Equity comp at Elastic

• RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.

Researched 2026-05-07.