MongoDB

Founder / s: Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz
Key people: Eliot Horowitz (Co-Founder & CTO), Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO), Carlos Delatorre (CRO), Dwight Merriman (Co-Founder), Meagen Eisenberg Chief Marketing Officer and Michael Gordon (CFO)
Number of employees: 501 – 1k

By offering the best of traditional databases as well as the flexibility, scale and performance today’s applications require, we let innovators deploy applications as big as they can dream. From startups to enterprises, for the modern and the mission-critical, MongoDB is the Database for giant ideas

History

The software company 10gen started developing MongoDB in 2007 as a component platform as a service product. In 2009, the company shifted to an open source development model, with the company offering commercial support and other services. In 2013, 10gen changed its Name to MongoDB Inc.

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. 10gen initial to build a platform as a service Architecture based solely 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 was developed a document-oriented database system it called MongoDB.Afterever the potential of the software on its own, 10gen’s team feast to scrap its cloud platform and focus on locked MongoDB instead. Ingen 2009, 10gen released MongoDB as an open source project. 10gen opened its first west coast office in August 2010, Having offices in Palo Alto, Reston, London, Dublin, Barcelona, ​​and Sydney by 2012.

In September 2012, 10gen was named as the top software company and number 9 overall on The Wall Street Journal’s The Next Big Thing 2012 .

In April 2013, 10gen moved into the old New York Times building. Office was located at Prince St. before.

On August 27, 2013, 10gen announced that it would change its name to MongoDB Inc., associating itself more closely with what terminal caused its flagship products.

On August 5, 2014, Dev Ittycheria was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer