MariaDB

Developer of the world’s fastest growing open source database management system and related services, created by the founder of MySQL, Monty Widenius.

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Milestones

2013

SkySQL was founded in 2009 and merged with Monty Program Ab (creators of Maria DB)

2014

SkySQL has become «MariaDB Corporation» & Michael Widenius left to run the non-profit MariaDB Foundation

2015

€3M investment led by Runa Capital

2016

$9M funding round led by Intel and California Technology Ventures. Michael Howard - ex VP of Sales at Oracle, was named as CEO

2017

€25M long-term loan combined with equity from the European Investment Bank (EIB)

2017

$27M round led by Alibaba

Twitter (@mariadb)

28 Jun 2022

Creating web apps with #PHP via #MariaDB is pretty simple. In fact, we created the app, Rolodex, just to walk you through the process. Follow the step-by-step process. 👉 bit.ly/3go2cik.

28 Jun 2022

.@VMO2News understood the need for #cloud adoption to achieve scalability and flexibility — which is why they chose #MariaDB #SkySQL! @Computing_News shares ALL the details on cloud strategy and suitability with Virgin Media O2: bit.ly/3btTS1y.

28 Jun 2022

Looking for transactional support, model relationship management, eager and lazy loading, and model validations? Let us introduce you to Sequelize, a #Nodejs object-relational mapping library. Get ALL the details: bit.ly/3LxjPuu.

Website

mariadb.com

Founders

Michael Widenius (CTO)

Key locations

Redwood City, CA, USA
Grankulla, Finland

Runa invested

Aug 2014

Runa team

Co-investors

Themes

Deep Tech