MariaDB

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

Star

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)

30 Nov 2020

Learn how to use set operators on your existing #MariaDB deployment or in the #cloud with #SkySQL. mariadb.com/resources/blog…

30 Nov 2020

Hey, #applicationdevelopers! We’ve got a toolkit for you! 🛠️ Learn how to take advantage of #MariaDB #R2DBC connector within a simple sample application. Download it now! bit.ly/2ITOHcP

30 Nov 2020

Pssst We recently migrated our YouTube channel over to bit.ly/MariaDB-YT If you want to stay up-to-date on the 🆒 things we have in store, watch tutorials and get smarter, follow us, and be sure to subscribe!

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