Founder Profile
Steven Schuurman
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Steven Schuurman?
Steven Schuurman is a founder of Elastic, which was founded in 2012 with Shay Banon, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer.
- Company founded
- Elastic
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Shay Banon, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer
Background
Serial software entrepreneur.
Founding Story
Steven Schuurman co-founded Elastic in 2012. As the company's first CEO, he successfully built the commercial business model around Banon's open-source project, scaling the company from a tiny startup into a massively profitable enterprise software provider before stepping down to the board in 2017.
Steven Schuurman was born in 1975.
Teunis Steven Schuurman was born in September 1975. He was Elastic's first chief executive and stepped down in 2017 to concentrate on philanthropy. He also co-founded SpringSource and Atlantis Entertainment and founded the non-profit Dreamery Foundation.