ABOUT US · INSIGHTS DRIVEN BUSINESS

Built by engineers, for engineers.

IDB started with a simple belief: developers deserve a database that works the way they think. We've spent a decade building infrastructure that gets out of your way and lets you ship.

OUR MISSION

Data infrastructure that scales with ambition.

We started IDB because we were tired of forcing JSON documents into rows and columns. The mismatch between how applications represent data and how databases store it was costing teams weeks of schema migrations per quarter.

Today, over 46,000 customers trust IDB to run their most critical workloads. From early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — the platform scales to meet them wherever they are.

10×faster query performance vs. relational alternatives
Sub-10msP99 latency at global scale
99.995%uptime SLA across all clusters
46k+customers in 100+ countries
WHAT WE STAND FOR

Principles we ship by.

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Developer-first

Every decision starts with the developer experience. If it feels wrong to write, we rebuild it.

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Radical transparency

Status pages, post-mortems, changelog — we publish the details others hide. Trust is earned through information.

03

Data integrity above all

Durability is non-negotiable. We never sacrifice correctness for throughput. Your data is exactly where you left it.

04

Relentlessly ship

We iterate in public. Every quarter ships meaningful improvements. The changelog is our product roadmap.

THE TEAM

The people behind the platform.

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Sarah Kim
CEO & Co-founder

Previously VP Engineering at Stripe. Built distributed systems for 12 years.

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Marcus Torres
CTO & Co-founder

PhD, distributed databases, MIT. Led storage engineering at AWS.

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Aisha Levi
VP Product

Shipped 4 products at MongoDB. Obsessed with developer onboarding.

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James Park
VP Engineering

Former Google SRE. Built systems handling 10M+ RPS.

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Riya Nair
Head of Security

SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR. Security is a feature, not a checkbox.

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Oliver Webb
Head of DevRel

Author, speaker, open-source maintainer. Runs the IDB community.

TIMELINE

A decade of compounding.

2016
Founded

Two engineers quit their FAANG jobs with a conviction: JSON should be the unit of storage, not rows.

2017
Series A — $12M

Raised from Sequoia. Shipped the first public beta with 500 developers on the waitlist.

2018
IDB Atlas launches

Fully-managed cloud offering goes live on AWS. 1,000 clusters in 90 days.

2020
10,000 customers

Passed the milestone during a global pandemic. Remote-first infrastructure proved its worth.

2022
Vector Search GA

First database to offer native vector search alongside operational data. AI workloads joined the platform.

2024
Series D — $240M

Valued at $3.2B. Expanding to 12 cloud regions and launching the IDB AI Platform.