MongoDB is a public company with no controlling owner. Its largest holders are BlackRock (5.8%) and two Vanguard entities (5.6% and 5.3%); co-founder Dwight Merriman owns 1.9%, per MongoDB’s 2026 proxy statement.
Correction (10 Oct 2026): earlier versions of this page showed undated or unsourced ownership figures. Ownership now comes from MongoDB’s MongoDB 2026 proxy statement; the rest of the article is kept as it was.
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MongoDB’s 2026 proxy statement lists BlackRock (4,692,038 shares, 5.8%), Vanguard Portfolio Management (4,512,140, 5.6%) and Vanguard Capital Management (4,228,919, 5.3%) as its 5% holders. Co-founder and director Dwight Merriman owns 1,561,474 shares (1.9%). Directors and executive officers as a group own 2.6%.
The Business Engineer view
MongoDB’s ownership is dispersed among fund managers, with no founder control. That keeps it judged on consumption growth of its Atlas cloud database, and keeps it permanently on lists of potential acquisition targets.
MongoDB is primarily owned by institutional investors like T. Rowe Price, The Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and FMR. Followed by individuals, and executives at the company like Dwight Merriman and Dev Ittycheria.
MongoDB is primarily owned by institutional investors like T. Rowe Price, The Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and FMR. Followed by individuals and executives at the company like Dwight Merriman and Dev Ittycheria.
Oracle’s main shareholder is founder Larry Ellison, which owns almost 43% of the company’s stocks—followed by Chief Executive Officer of Oracle, Safra A. Catz. Other individual shareholders comprise executive vice president and chief corporate architect Edward Screven and vice chairman Jeffrey Henley. The top institutional investor is The Vanguard Group, with 5.3% of the company’s stock.
Oracle is a behemoth software company founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. The company followed the on-premise softwaremodel but mostly successfully transitioned to the cloudmodel. In fact, by 2022, cloud services represented most of its revenues. Indeed its lineup of software products comprises MySQL, Java, Middleware, Oracle Linux, and many others.
In 2022, Oracle generated over 70% of its revenue from cloud services. Indeed, in 2022, Oracle generated over $30 billion from cloud services, nearly $5.9 billion from the cloud and on-premise licenses, almost $3.2 billion from hardware, and $3.2 billion from services.
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