MariaDB

MariaDB frees companies from the costs and limits of proprietary databases, helping them focus on building innovative, customer-facing applications.

MariaDB frees companies from the costs and limits of proprietary databases, helping them focus on building innovative, customer-facing applications.
Agentic infrastructure & developer tooling
Milestones
Founded in 2010 IPO via SPAC arrangement in 2022
Investment year
2018
Investment stage
Investment status
Portfolio
Deal team
Patrik Backman
Ralf Wahlsten
MariaDB frees companies from the costs and limits of proprietary databases, helping them focus on building innovative, customer-facing applications.

MariaDB is an enterprise open-source database platform engineered to support any workload in any environment. It allows enterprises to rely on a single, comprehensive database for all their needs, which can be deployed in minutes for transactional, analytical, or hybrid use cases. With over 1 billion downloads, nearly 200,000 open-source contributions, and reaching over 1 billion users through Linux distributions, MariaDB is not only meeting the needs of the relational database market, but also helping shape its future.

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