MariaDB

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Status

Active

Country

Finland

Sweden

Fund

Spintop I

Invested

2012

CEO

Michael Howard

High performance database solutions for the most demanding cloud and web services

Finn Persson

Partner & Co-founder

Co-investors

ServiceNow, Alibaba, Intel Capital, California Technology Ventures, Runa Capital, OnCorps, Open Ocean Capital and Finnish Industry Investments (FII)

Website

mariadb.com

Key trends

Digital infrastructure

Tech stack

Foundational tech

Nordic roots

Sweden

Finland

Imagine it. Build it. Deploy Instantly with MariaDB.

MariaDB Corporation is a global database software vendor built on an open source technology platform. The company targets high availability, high performance applications, supporting the most demanding cloud and web services around the world.

MariaDB Corporation was founded by key profiles behind MySQL, including the original inventors Michael “Monty” Widenius and David Axmark. The company is led by a senior team, with a mix of MySQL backgrounds and experiences from cloud services, enterprise software and business built on open software.

The company has a prestigious customer list, including leading web and cloud services, as well as some of the other most demanding database users around. The company has forged important partnerships with key players in open source and infrastructure software and is recognised as a leader within its space by software industry analysts.

At Spintop we are excited to see how MariaDB supports the leading web and cloud services.

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Snow capped Nordic peak at sunset above a forested valley and a river

On the ground across the Nordics.

Investing at pre-seed and seed.

Spintop Ventures mark
Spintop Ventures

Norway

Tordenskiolds gate 2, 0160 Oslo
Krambugata 2, 7011 Trondheim

Sweden

Sveavägen 50, 111 34 Stockholm
Bredgatan 4, 211 30 Malmö
Rådhusgatan 46, 831 82 Östersund

Finland

Mikonkatu 9, 00100 Helsinki

Denmark

Højbro Pl. 10, 1200 København

© 2005–2026 Spintop Private Service AB. Org. no. 556805-0859

Snow capped Nordic peak at sunset above a forested valley and a river

On the ground across the Nordics.

Investing at pre-seed and seed.

Spintop Ventures mark
Spintop Ventures

Norway

Tordenskiolds gate 2, 0160 Oslo
Krambugata 2, 7011 Trondheim

Sweden

Sveavägen 50, 111 34 Stockholm
Bredgatan 4, 211 30 Malmö
Rådhusgatan 46, 831 82 Östersund

Finland

Mikonkatu 9, 00100 Helsinki

Denmark

Højbro Pl. 10, 1200 København

© 2005–2026 Spintop Private Service AB. Org. no. 556805-0859