VillageSQL builds an innovation platform for MySQL: an open-source, drop-in replacement for the world's most popular open-source database. The product extends MySQL with custom data types, functions, and indexes without requiring changes to existing applications, and adds an extension framework designed to enable permissionless innovation. The company positions this work as infrastructure for the agentic AI era, letting developers extend the database for modern AI, agentic, and enterprise workloads rather than waiting on a central authority to ship new capabilities.
The company has raised $35M in Seed and Series A funding from FirstMark Capital, GV (Google Ventures), Spark Capital and Homebrew. Its founders and engineering team come from database and cloud infrastructure work at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle. Co-founder Steve Schirripa spent 21 years in engineering leadership at Google. The team cites the 30-plus year MySQL community as a foundation, and states a commitment to maintaining parity with current and future MySQL versions.
Technical work spans database engineering, MySQL internals, extension frameworks, custom data types, functions and indexes, and cloud infrastructure, in service of open-source databases supporting AI and enterprise workloads.
