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)

20 Oct 2021

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20 Oct 2021

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20 Oct 2021

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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