MongoDB Inc.

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MongoDB, Inc.
Formerly10gen, Inc. (2007–2013)
Company type Public company
Industry Software
Founded2007;17 years ago (2007)
Founders
Headquarters Paramount Plaza
New York City, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products MongoDB
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$1.28 billion (2023)
Decrease2.svgUS$−347 million (2023)
Decrease2.svgUS$−345 million (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$2.59 billion (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svgUS$740 million (2023)
Number of employees
4,619 (January 2023)
Website mongodb.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of January 31,2023. [1]

MongoDB, Inc. is an American software company that develops and provides commercial support for the source-available database engine MongoDB, a NoSQL database that stores data in JSON-like documents with flexible schemas. MongoDB, Inc. is a member of the MACH Alliance. [2]

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History

The company was first established in 2007 as 10gen. Based in New York City, 10gen was founded by former DoubleClick founder and CTO Dwight Merriman and former DoubleClick CEO and Gilt Groupe founder Kevin P. Ryan with former Doubleclick engineer and ShopWiki founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz and received $81 million in venture capital funding from Flybridge Capital Partners, In-Q-Tel, Intel Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Red Hat, Sequoia Capital, and Union Square Ventures. [3] [4] [5] 10gen originally aimed to build a platform as a service architecture based entirely on open source components; however, the company was unable to find an existing database platform that met their "principles" for a cloud architecture. As a result, the company began to develop a document-oriented database system it called MongoDB. After realizing the potential of the software on its own, 10gen's team decided to scrap its cloud platform and focus on maintaining MongoDB instead. [6] In February 2009, 10gen released MongoDB as an open source project. [7] 10gen opened its first west coast office in August 2010, [8] having offices in Palo Alto, Reston, London, Dublin, Barcelona, and Sydney by 2012. [9]

In September 2012, 10gen was in The Wall Street Journal's The Next Big Thing 2012. [10]

On August 27, 2013, 10gen announced that it would change its name to MongoDB Inc., associating itself more closely with what ultimately became its flagship products. [7]

On August 5, 2014, Dev Ittycheria was appointed president and chief executive officer. [11]

The company's initial public offering was on October 20, 2017, and a secondary offering was held on June 29, 2021. [12]

CIA backing concern

MongoDB Inc., then known as 10gen, has received funding from the U.S. Government through the CIA-sponsored venture capital arm In-Q-Tel. This has been a source of concern in India. [13]

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References

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