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MySQL
Other B2B Software · Redwood City, United States · Founded 1995
Valuation
$1–2.5B
Headcount
100–500
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Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
Talent graph
MySQL's talent
Founders
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quality score
Key operators
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quality score
Potential founders
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likely future founders
Talent movements
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past 12 months
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
MySQL mafia
Startups founded by MySQL alumni
Former MySQL employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MariaDBEst. 2014
MMMax MetherUnited States
Signal score93
PerconaEst. 2006
Peter ZaitsevUnited StatesSignal score73
CouchbaseEst. 2009
Damien KatzUnited StatesSignal score66
HopsworksEst. 2016
JDJim DowlingSweden
Signal score61
FinTech StudiosEst. 2014
RTRich TaylorUnited States
Signal score59
Empire KredEst. 2011
Niall BrownUnited StatesSignal score53
Empire AvenueEst. 2009
Duleepa "Dups" WijayawardhanaCanadaSignal score45
Global footprint
Where MySQL has talent and traffic
Web traffic by country
2.1M
monthly visits
across markets
across markets
🇮🇳 India20.5%
🇺🇸 United States7.8%
🇨🇳 China7.6%
🏳️ Russian Federation3%
🇯🇵 Japan2.5%
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about MySQL
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about MySQL on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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