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Mendix
Boston, US · Founded 2005 · 960 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
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Acquired by Siemens AG August 2018 · $730M (€0.6B (~$730M) plus multi-year R&D investment) · source ↗
Mendix offers a low-code application platform for building, deploying, and governing enterprise applications and AI agents on top of existing systems like ERP, CRM, and OT. It targets large enterprises and regulated industries, providing capabilities for enterprise knowledge graphs, AI model development, agentic development, process orchestration, and AI governance.
Also known as Mendix Technology BV
Founders & leadership
Mendix was founded in 2005 by Roald Kruit, Derek Roos, and Derckjan Kruit.
Investors · 6
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries BJan 2014
Battery Ventures (lead), HENQ Invest, Prime Ventures
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountSeries AOct 2011
Prime Ventures (lead), HENQ Invest
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Mendix develops a low-code application platform that enterprises use to build, run and orchestrate applications and AI agents intended to support a mixed workforce of people and software agents. The platform is organized around five capability areas: enterprise context via an Enterprise Knowledge Graph that maps relationships, dependencies and signals across an organization; AI/ML model development and deployment with monitoring across the enterprise; agentic development for moving AI pilots into production-grade solutions and agents; process orchestration to coordinate people, agents and systems; and enterprise governance providing auditable, traceable and enforced controls across development stages.
The platform is positioned as a layer running on top of a customer's existing technology estate rather than a replacement for it. Customers can use their own large language models (frontier, open-source or private, and swappable), ground agents in their own data and connect their own systems of record, and deploy to their own cloud or on-premises environments, including air-gapped deployments where policy requires. Mendix describes itself as designed with Siemens expertise at its core, with an industrial emphasis on shop-floor data and product lifecycle context, and its low-code platform is part of Siemens' Intelligence Center X agentic enterprise system.
Business model
Mendix sells access to its application development and orchestration platform to enterprise organizations, which build and deploy applications and agents on it; deployment can be in Mendix-supported cloud environments or in the customer's own cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
Traction
The company publishes aggregate figures for active developers, employees, customers, end users and applications built, though the specific values are not rendered in the available material.
Latest developments
Mendix is promoting Intelligence Center X, Siemens' agentic enterprise system for industrial use, which now incorporates the Mendix low-code platform, alongside materials on human-AI workforce adoption and measuring AI value.
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Market position
Mendix competes in the enterprise low-code application platform market and states it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms for the ninth consecutive year, positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. Its platform is embedded in Siemens' Intelligence Center X offering.
Mendix emphasizes running on top of existing enterprise systems rather than replacing them, model and cloud portability (swappable LLMs, customer-owned data and deployment targets including air-gapped), built-in governance and traceability, and Siemens industrial domain expertise embedded in the platform.
Technology
A low-code application platform combining an Enterprise Knowledge Graph for enterprise context, AI/ML model development, deployment and monitoring, agentic development tooling for production AI agents, process orchestration across people, agents and systems, and governance features providing auditability and traceability. The platform supports bring-your-own LLM, bring-your-own data and bring-your-own cloud, including public cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployments.
Go-to-market
Large enterprises and their IT and business teams, with an emphasis on industrial organizations and manufacturing use cases such as shop-floor intelligence and product lifecycle processes. Referenced customer roles include senior IT managers, CTOs and CIOs.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Mendix went on to found or lead other companies.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsMendix states it was named a Leader for the ninth consecutive year, and positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.
Mendix announced that its low-code platform became part of Intelligence Center X, described as Siemens' agentic enterprise system for industrial settings.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- Mendixmendix.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Mendix do?
- Mendix provides a low-code platform for building, running and governing enterprise applications and AI agents.
- Who founded Mendix?
- Mendix was founded by Roald Kruit, Derek Roos, Derckjan Kruit in 2005.
- Who are Mendix's investors?
- Mendix's investors include Battery Ventures, HENQ Invest, henQ vc, Karma Ventures, Prime Ventures, Runa Capital.
- Where is Mendix headquartered?
- Mendix is headquartered in Boston, US.