MariaDB - About the company
MariaDB is an acquired company based in Redwood City (United States), founded in 2010 by Michael Widenius. It operates as a Provider of dbaas platform for enterprises. MariaDB has raised $237M in funding from investors like California Technology Ventures, Intel Education Accelerator and Alibaba, with last known valuation of $*****. The company has 75 active competitors, including 18 funded and 17 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like MongoDB, Couchbase and DataStax.
Company Details
Provider of dbaas platform for enterprises. It enables transactional applications to retain historical data and leverage real-time analytics to provide customers with information and insights. The platform supports transactional, analytical, and mixed workloads for relational and json data models. It supports columnar, distributed, MPP storage.
- Website
- mariadb.com
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@mariadb.com
- Phone Number
- +1 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2010
Location
Redwood City, United States
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$237M in 10 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Last Known Valuation
$***** as on Jan 31, 2022
Investors
Ranked
4th among 75 active competitors
Employee Count
327 as on Feb 28, 2026
Exit Details
Acquired by K1 Investment Management (Sep 10, 2024)
Legal entities associated with MariaDB
MariaDB is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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MariaDB USA, Inc CIN: 4843797 , United States, Active | Jun 30, 2010 | - | 63 (As on Sep 30, 2023) | - |
MariaDB Corporation Ab CIN: - , United States, Active | Jul 25, 2010 | $13.1M (As on Sep 30, 2017) | - | - |
MariaDB's acquisition details
MariaDB got acquired by K1 Investment Management on Sep 10, 2024. It was facilitated by Kirkland & Ellis, Lazard, A&L Goodbody and 3 more.
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MariaDB's funding and investors
MariaDB has raised a total funding of $237M over 10 rounds. Its first funding round was on Apr 18, 2012. Its latest funding round was a Series D round on Jan 31, 2022 for $*****. 13 investors participated in its latest round. MariaDB has 22 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of MariaDB:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Jan 31, 2022 | 9100214 | Series D | 3269017 | 5015918 | 6049022 | 5081140 |
Jul 09, 2020 | 8976441 | Series C | 3731641 | 3051178 | 9033920 | |
Sep 20, 2018 | 1016741 | Series C | 1208112 | 5849263 | 8579702 |
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MariaDB's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of MariaDB is Michael Widenius. Rohit De Souza is the CEO of MariaDB.
Here are the details of MariaDB's key team members:
- Michael Widenius: CTO of MariaDB. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Rohit De Souza: CEO of MariaDB. Contact Info: 1 email address
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MariaDB's employee count trend
MariaDB has 327 employees as of Feb 26. Here is MariaDB's employee count trend over the years:
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MariaDB's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of MariaDB include MongoDB, Couchbase and DataStax. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of MariaDB, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | MongoDB 2007, New York City (United States), Public | Provider of a cloud-based database-as-a-service platform | $311M | 85/100 | |
2nd | Couchbase 2009, Mountain View (United States), Acquired | AI powered dbaas for enterprises | $251M | 74/100 | |
3rd | DataStax 2010, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired | Provider of data management and AI application development infrastructure solutions | $305M | 72/100 | |
4th | MariaDB 2010, Redwood City (United States), Acquired | Provider of dbaas platform for enterprises | $237M | 69/100 | |
5th |  PlanetScale 2018, Mountain View (United States), Series C | Provider of the NewSQL-based database-as-a-service platform | $105M | 67/100 | |
6th |  StarTree 2019, Mountain View (United States), Series B | Cloud based Dbaas and decision support software | $75M | 64/100 | |
7th | Qubole 2011, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired | Provider of cloud-based data lake platform | $75M | 62/100 | |
8th | Provider of managed open source data technologies and cloud infrastructure | $421M | 60/100 | ||
9th | Altiscale 2012, Palo Alto (United States), Acquired | Hosted Hadoop as a service provider | $42M | 59/100 | |
10th |  Tessell 2021, San Ramon (United States), Series B | Provider of multi-cloud database-as-a-service platform for database management solutions | $94M | 58/100 |
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MariaDB's Investments and acquisitions
MariaDB has not made any investments yet. MariaDB has made 6 acquisitions.Here is the list of latest three $acquisitions:Filter this list
Filter this listDate of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Mar 09, 2026 | Acquisition | 2007 | Foster City (United States) | |
Aug 27, 2025 | Acquisition | 2010 | Helsinki (Finland) | |
May 27, 2025 | Acquisition | 2007 | Helsinki (Finland) |
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News related to MariaDB
Filter this listMedia has covered MariaDB for a total of 9 events in the last 1 year, 2 of them have been about company updates and 1 about partnerships.
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MariaDB to acquire GridGain to power low-latency AIitbrief.com.au•Mar 06, 2026•GridGain, MariaDB, MariaDB
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DBMS Market Driven by Cloud Adoption, Big Data Analytics: Market Research IntellectPR Newswire•Feb 17, 2026•Marketresearchintellect, Google, Teradata, Snowflake and 7 others
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MariaDB Introduces Cloud Platform to Speed Up AI Agent App DevelopmentAiThority•Oct 23, 2025•MariaDB
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MariaDB Acquires SkySQL, Adds Agentic AI and Serverless CapabilityIndia Shorts•Aug 27, 2025•SkySQL, MariaDB, MariaDB
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MariaDB Acquires Galera Cluster for Enhanced Database CapabilitiesCIO Influence•May 28, 2025•MariaDB, Galera Cluster
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Revitalizing MariaDB: New Leadership and a Focus on Community CollaborationGlobal Village Space•Oct 13, 2024•MariaDB
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K1 Acquires MariaDB, a Leading Database Software Company, and Appoints New CEOCIO Influence•Sep 10, 2024•K1 Investment Management, MariaDB, MariaDB, Axcient and 1 other
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