Elastic N.V. (ESTC) Presents at Citi’s 2025 Global Technology, Media and Telecommunication

Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO & Executive Director

Sure. So Elastic fundamentally as a company was founded on an open source project, Elasticsearch,; which was written by our co-founders. And the best way to think about it is it’s a search platform. It’s a technology that’s designed for bringing in any and all kinds of messy unstructured information and then making all of it searchable. So through that, you can then analyze that data in all kinds of ways. And over the years, we started in that sort of basic search area, but then grew into observability, specifically starting with log analytics because logs tend to be extremely messy. They’re voluminous. They’re hard to analyze. And then getting into observability over time, we got into security as well, into cybersecurity, specifically starting with SIEM and in the security, event management and monitoring space, that became the cornerstone, but then we also expanded into other areas in security, specifically endpoint