MongoDB

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

MongoDB, Inc. is a public software company founded as 10gen in 2007 that provides a developer data platform for operational, analytical, search, vector, and AI workloads. Its platform is used by more than 65,200 customers in over 100 countries and the company had 5,636 employees as of January 31, 2026.

Primary product

MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed multi-cloud database-as-a-service and broader developer data platform; related offerings include MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and Community Edition.

Founded

2007

Headquarters

1633 Broadway, 38th Floor, New York, NY 10019, USA

Team size

5,000–6,000

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Enterprise software

Sub-industry

Database software, cloud data platforms, developer tools, and AI infrastructure

Offices

New York City, USA

Dublin, Ireland (international headquarters)

Austin, USA

Atlanta, USA

Boston, USA

Chicago, USA

Palo Alto, USA

San Francisco, USA

Seattle, USA

Toronto, Canada

Business model

Subscription SaaS via MongoDB Atlas

Subscription enterprise software via MongoDB Enterprise Advanced

Free/open-source Community Edition supporting adoption and conversion

Usage-based cloud database and data-service consumption

Professional services and support

Funding

Stage

Public company; IPO completed October 2017

Total raised

$311M

Latest round

Post-IPO equity · Jan 2020

Latest amount

$1B

People & investors

Leadership

Chirantan “CJ” Desai

President and Chief Executive Officer

Michael (Mike) Berry

Chief Financial Officer

Jim Scharf

Chief Technology Officer

Benjamin Cefalo

Chief Product Officer, Core Products

Pablo Stern-Plaza

Chief Product Officer, AI and Emerging Products

Ryan Mac Ban

Chief Revenue Officer

Erica Volini

Chief Customer Officer

May Petry

Chief Marketing Officer

Deepa Gopinath

Chief Information Officer

Harsha Jalihal

Chief People Officer

Andrew Stephens

Chief Legal Officer

Founders

Dwight Merriman

Director and Co-Founder

Eliot Horowitz

Co-Founder and former CTO

Kevin Ryan

Co-Founder and former CEO

Investors

Altimeter Capital

EMC

Flybridge Capital Partners

Goldman Sachs

In-Q-Tel

Intel Capital

New Enterprise Associates

Union Square Ventures

Work & culture

MongoDB describes a high-performance, inclusive, growth-oriented culture organized around Think Big, Go Far; Build Together; Embrace the Power of Differences; Make it Matter; Own What You Do; and Be Intellectually Honest. Work models are role- and manager-agreed and range from office-based to flexible and fully remote.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Yes

Compensation

Public filings describe competitive market-benchmarked base pay, commission or bonuses, long-term equity, annual equity refreshes for eligible roles, and a global employee stock-purchase plan. Third-party H-1B disclosure aggregations report active sponsorship and a FY2020–FY2026 median certified base salary of about $166,320; this is not a universal MongoDB compensation rate.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US)

Paid time off

401(k) retirement benefits

Physical, emotional, financial, and family/community wellbeing programs

Employee stock purchase plan

Base salary, bonus/commission, and equity opportunities

Intern and graduate programs

Learning, coaching, and leadership-development programs

Product & market

Pricing

Freemium and tiered subscription/consumption pricing: Community Edition is free; Atlas is managed-cloud pricing based on cluster, storage, compute, and data services; Enterprise Advanced is commercially licensed subscription software with support and advanced capabilities.

Differentiators

—Document-oriented developer experience for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
—Managed multi-cloud deployment through Atlas
—Single platform combining operational database, search, vector search, streaming, and AI data services
—Flexible cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and private-cloud deployment
—Horizontal scalability, resilience, and support for modern application workloads
—Integrated AI retrieval, embeddings, reranking, and agent memory capabilities
—Large developer ecosystem and broad partner integrations

Technology

MongoDB database engine

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced

MongoDB Community Edition

MongoDB Search

MongoDB Vector Search

Hybrid Search

Atlas Stream Processing

Voyage AI embeddings and reranking

MongoDB Query Language (MQL)

LangGraph.js integration

Apache Iceberg integration

AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure

Customers

More than 65,200 paying customers as of January 31, 2026

Vodafone

Financial Times

More than 20 large banks and financial institutions evaluating or using Enterprise Search capabilities

Enterprise, financial-services, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, public-sector, and AI-native companies

Competitors

Oracle

Microsoft

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Other database and cloud data-platform providers

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$2B–$3B annually; FY2026 reported revenue was $2.46 billion

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Feb 2025

MongoDB acquired Voyage AI Innovations for approximately $160.9 million to strengthen embedding and reranking capabilities.

Source

Acquisition

Apr 2026

MongoDB acquired Clarity Business Solutions to strengthen its US Federal vertical; Clarity was expected to operate as a separate entity during integration.

Source

Other

Mar 2026

Fiscal 2026 ended with a net loss of $71.2 million despite $2.46 billion in revenue; the company identifies competition from major cloud and legacy database providers, open-source licensing, and dependence on Atlas revenue as material risks.

Source

Latest news

Improving Agent Retrieval with Native Reranking and Hybrid Search

MongoDB Engineering/Product Blog · Jul 2026

Hybrid search became generally available and native reranking entered public preview in Atlas, keeping retrieval inside the MongoDB query path.

MongoDB Delivers Accurate AI Retrieval Wherever Enterprise Data Lives

MongoDB · Jun 2026

Announced general availability of Search and Vector Search for Enterprise Advanced and Community Edition, plus hybrid search and Voyage AI retrieval capabilities.

MongoDB Makes Enterprise AI Production Ready

MongoDB · May 2026

Announced MongoDB 8.3, automated Voyage AI embeddings, agent memory, private connectivity, and additional capabilities for production enterprise AI.

MongoDB Acquires Clarity Business Solutions and Announces Strategic Updates

SEC filing / MongoDB release · Apr 2026

Disclosed the Clarity acquisition, leadership appointments, LangChain partnership, Irish expansion, and Google Cloud Partner of the Year recognition.

MongoDB Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results

MongoDB / 10-K summary · Mar 2026

Reported FY2026 revenue of $2.46 billion, fourth-quarter revenue of $695.1 million, more than 65,200 customers, and strong cash generation.

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