Mongodb
Verified“A US database company, all the way down.”
- Listing
- NASDAQ: MDB
- Revenue
- $2.01B
- Employees
- ~5,558
- Intl revenue
- 46%
19 = midpoint of Control 13 & Data 25
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 14 sourced facts across 10 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 88% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
12
Incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in New York. The company and all governance sit under US law and SEC oversight. EU entities exist only as local subsidiaries; the parent is fully US. EU law reaches the EU customer relationship via GDPR/DPA but does not reach the controlling entity.
Why 12? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
State of incorporation
MongoDB FY2023 Form 10-K (SEC) · as of 2007 (incorp.), filing 2023
Principal executive offices
MongoDB Form 10-K (SEC search summary) · as of FY2025 10-K
Originally incorporated as 10gen, Inc.; renamed MongoDB, Inc. in 2013
Wikipedia: MongoDB Inc. · as of 2013
Control & Ownership
14
Listed on NASDAQ under MDB. Single-class, one-share-one-vote since all Class B (10 votes/share) automatically converted to Class A on 11 Jun 2020 — no founder supervoting control remains. Ownership is ~90% institutional, dominated by US funds (Vanguard, BlackRock, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity). Voting control and economic majority are both US.
Why 14? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
All Class B (10-vote) shares auto-converted to one-vote Class A; now single-class one-share-one-vote
MongoDB Form 8-K Class B conversion (SEC) · as of 2020-06-11
Ownership is ~90% institutional, led by US asset managers
WallStreetZen MDB ownership · as of 2025
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
22
MongoDB Atlas (the managed cloud product) runs exclusively on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud — all US hyperscalers — across 117+ regions. Customers can pin clusters to EU regions for data residency, but the underlying provider and the MongoDB-operated control plane remain US-jurisdiction, so CLOUD Act exposure persists. No EU-owned infrastructure. Strong GDPR tooling (SCCs, EU-US DPF, queryable encryption) mitigates but does not remove foreign-law exposure.
Why 22? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Atlas runs on the three US hyperscalers
MongoDB Atlas expansion press release · as of 2024
Customer (not MongoDB) chooses cloud provider and region; EU residency is selectable but on US providers
MongoDB Privacy Hub · as of 2025
Cross-border transfers governed by 2021 EU SCCs + EU-US Data Privacy Framework certification
MongoDB Privacy Hub · as of 2025
'Follow the sun' support can route data to US and other affiliates
MongoDB Privacy Hub · as of 2025
Operations & People
30
Headquartered in New York with US-based leadership and USD reporting. New CEO CJ Desai (ex-ServiceNow, ex-Cloudflare) took over 10 Nov 2025, splitting time between NY and San Francisco. The company is global — 46% of revenue is generated outside the US and it runs EU offices (incl. Dublin) — but the center of gravity, decision-making and reporting currency are firmly American.
Why 30? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
New CEO Chirantan 'CJ' Desai (ex-ServiceNow, ex-Cloudflare), US-based
MongoDB leadership transition blog · as of 2025-11-10
Revenue generated outside the US
MongoDB FY2025 10-K (SEC summary) · as of FY2025
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
What share of EU customer data physically resides in EU cloud regions vs US regions?
MongoDB lets customers choose, so actual EU residency depends on each customer's configuration — the company-wide split is not disclosed.
- ?
Exact total Atlas / cloud-hosted data footprint inside the EU and headcount split between US and EU.
Affects precision of infra and operations scores; FY2025 10-K gives revenue geography (46% intl) but not a clean EU-only data or headcount breakdown.
- ?
Does MongoDB operate any EU-jurisdiction managed control plane independent of US oversight?
Even EU-region clusters are administered through MongoDB's US-controlled Atlas control plane; a fully EU-sovereign offering is not evident.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
SEAL is designed for cloud/hosting providers; applied here as an analogous sovereignty mapping for a US database SaaS vendor, not a formal certification.
Strategic
US-headquartered, NASDAQ-listed company controlled by US capital markets; no EU strategic anchor.
Legal & jurisdictional
Delaware-incorporated, governed by US law and SEC; EU reaches it only through GDPR/DPA on the customer relationship.
Data & AI
EU data-residency selectable on US hyperscalers; strong GDPR tooling (SCCs, EU-US DPF, encryption) but US-jurisdiction control plane and CLOUD Act exposure remain.
Operational
US leadership and HQ, USD reporting; EU offices exist but are not the operating center.
Supply chain
Core infrastructure depends entirely on US hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/GCP) as sub-processors.
Technological
Core database engine is open-source (SSPL); the managed Atlas service and its control plane are US-operated and proprietary.
Security & compliance
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, EU-US Data Privacy Framework certified; mature controls but US-anchored.
Environmental sustainability
No company-specific EU environmental sovereignty data reviewed for this profile.
EU alternatives
Popular managed Postgres with EU regions, but US-incorporated (acquired by Databricks) — same sovereignty caveats as MongoDB, not an EU answer.
EU-incorporated and EU-operated cloud provider offering managed MongoDB-compatible and PostgreSQL databases on European infrastructure outside CLOUD Act reach.
French (Iliad group) sovereign cloud with managed database services hosted entirely in EU regions under EU jurisdiction.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
Spotted an error? Every claim is sourced — challenge it and we correct the record.
- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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