MariaDB, a Finland-based open-source database service, has raised $9m from a consortium including Intel Capital, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous US-listed chipmaker.
Venture capital firm California Technology Ventures also invested in MariaDB, which named Michael Howard its CEO and Michael “Monty” Widenius its chief technology officer from the start of January.
Howard was previously chief executive of C9, a predictive analytics company bought by InsideSales. Widenius, was the creator of both MySQL, acquired by Oracle as part of the Sun Microsystems purchase in 2010, and MariaDB.
VC firm Runa Capital invested $3.4m in MariaDB in 2015, according to Russian press reports. Formerly known as SkySQL, MariaDB had at that time already raised a total of $26.5m from Intel Capital, California Technology Ventures, Finnish Industry Investment, Open Ocean Capital and Spintop Private Partners.