MongoDB
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2007CEO / Founder
Dev IttycheriaEmployees
5001-10000Funding
Public — $311MStock
MDBProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.4/10Website
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About MongoDB
MongoDB, Inc. develops a document-oriented database platform designed as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The company was founded in 2007 by Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan, originally under the name 10gen, and is headquartered in New York City.
The core product, MongoDB, stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents rather than rigid rows and tables, and is available as self-managed software or through MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed cloud database service running on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The company also offers MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and developer tools such as Compass and Realm. Customers span industries including financial services, retail, telecommunications, and technology, with the database widely used for application development, content management, and real-time analytics.
MongoDB raised approximately $311 million in venture funding from investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and NEA before going public on the Nasdaq in October 2017 under the ticker MDB. The company has made acquisitions including Compose (2016), mLab (2018), Realm (2019), and search-startup technology to expand Atlas capabilities. It reports revenue primarily driven by Atlas subscription growth and employs several thousand people globally.
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Competitive Landscape
Who MongoDB competes with, and how they differ.
Direct document-database competitor offering a distributed NoSQL platform with SQL++ query support and stronger emphasis on mobile/edge sync, targeting similar enterprise workloads as MongoDB.
AWS-native key-value/document database competing for cloud-native application workloads, priced on-demand or provisioned capacity rather than MongoDB's Atlas cluster-based pricing, and tightly locked into the AWS ecosystem.
Cloud data warehouse focused on structured analytics and large-scale SQL querying rather than operational document storage, targeting BI and data warehousing teams instead of application developers.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedEnterprise data management and integration platform rather than an operational database, serving data governance and ETL use cases that sit above databases like MongoDB in the data stack.
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Key milestones in MongoDB's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired Voyage AI
MongoDB announced the acquisition of Voyage AI, a startup building embedding and reranking models for retrieval-augmented generation, to strengthen AI-powered search in Atlas. Deal terms were not disclosed by MongoDB.
mongodb.com - Funding
Priced $1.0B convertible senior notes due 2026
MongoDB priced an upsized $1.0 billion offering of 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2026 in a private placement, later increased to $1.15B with the over-allotment option; proceeds were used partly to repurchase its 2024 convertible notes.
prnewswire.com - Acquisition
Acquired Realm for $39M cash
MongoDB acquired Realm, maker of the Realm mobile database and Synchronization Platform used by over 100,000 developers, for $39 million in cash to strengthen its mobile and edge sync capabilities.
mongodb.com - Acquisition
Agreed to acquire mLab
MongoDB agreed to acquire mLab, a San Francisco-based cloud database hosting service with roughly one million hosted databases, to deepen ties with developer-centric startup communities and grow MongoDB Atlas.
mongodb.com - Milestone
IPO on Nasdaq under ticker MDB, raised $192M
MongoDB began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under ticker MDB after pricing its IPO at $24.00 per share for 8,000,000 shares, raising $192 million.
mongodb.com - Launch
Launched MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB unveiled MongoDB Atlas, an elastic, on-demand database-as-a-service offering, at MongoDB World in New York. Atlas later grew to represent the majority of MongoDB's revenue.
mongodb.com - Funding
Series E — $150M led by Fidelity/T. Rowe Price funds, Altimeter, Salesforce
MongoDB closed a $150 million financing round led by a Fidelity affiliate and T. Rowe Price-advised funds, with new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com, bringing total capital raised since 2007 to $231 million — at the time the largest single funding round for any database vendor.
mongodb.com - Milestone
10gen renamed itself MongoDB, Inc.
10gen announced it was changing its corporate name to MongoDB, Inc. to align the company name with its flagship open-source database product; the open-source project itself was unaffected.
mongodb.com - Founded
Founded as 10gen in New York City
Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan — former DoubleClick colleagues — founded 10gen in New York City; the company later built the MongoDB document database and renamed itself after it in 2013.
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