| Birthplace | Espoo, Finland |
| Birthdate | 11/6/62 |
| Helsinki University of Technology, Masters | |
| Engineering |
Marten Mickos is the CEO of Eucalyptus (http://eucalyptus.com), a cloud computing software company backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/former-mysql-chief-lands-at-eucalyptus/)
Mickos is the former CEO of MySQL, before Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL in January 2008 for $1 billion.
He joined Benchmark Capital as an Entrepreneur-in Residence in September of 2009.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Flowdock | 10/11 | Seed | $650k | 5 |
| ERPLY | 3/10 | Venture Round | $2M | 8 |
| Factual | 2/10 | Seed | $1M | 14 |
| Cloudera | 3/09 | Series A | $5M | 9 |