db4objects sponsors the development, commercially licenses and supports db4o, the open source object database. Driven by the world's largest community of its kind, with 40,000 registered Java and .NET developers and counting, db4o offers the ultimate persistence solution to store objects of any complexity natively, with only one line of code.

Users and customers of db4objects currently come from 170 different countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, and range from world class leaders like Boeing, Bosch, Intel, Ricoh, and Seagate to a wide range of highly innovative start-up companies.

db4objects is a venture-backed company based in San Mateo, California. The company was incorporated in 2004 under CEO Christof Wittig, with the financial backing of top-tier Silicon Valley investors including Mark Leslie, founding CEO of Veritas, Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and Jerry Fiddler, founding CEO of Wind River, as well as Palo Alto-based Asset Management venture firm.