Founder Profile
Eliot Horowitz
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Eliot Horowitz?
Eliot Horowitz is a founder of MongoDB, Inc., which was founded in 2007 with Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan.
- Company founded
- MongoDB, Inc.
- Founded
- 2007
- Co-founders
- Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan
Background
Software engineer and tech entrepreneur.
Founding Story
Eliot Horowitz co-founded MongoDB (originally 10gen) in 2007. Frustrated by the severe limitations of traditional relational databases (like MySQL) when attempting to build highly scalable web applications, he helped architect a completely new 'document-based' database model. He served as Chief Technology Officer for over a decade, building MongoDB into the absolute default database for modern cloud applications.
Eliot Horowitz was born in 1981. Education: Brown University.
Horowitz was chief technology officer of MongoDB. He later founded the robotics software company Viam, where he is chief executive.