# MinIO

> MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage company building the data layer for AI. Its software-defined storage runs on commodity hardware in private clouds, on-prem, and at the edge, and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 to power analytics, ML training, and exascale AI workloads.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founders:** Anand Babu Periasamy (Co-Founder & CEO), Garima Kapoor (Co-Founder & COO), Harshavardhana (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~210 employees
- **Products:** MinIO AIStor, AIStor Pods, AIHub, MinIO Community
- **Notable:** Reached $1B unicorn valuation at Series B in January 2022, Over 61,000 GitHub stars - among the most-starred infrastructure projects in the world, Used by more than half of the Fortune 500

## Products & services

- **MinIO AIStor** — Commercial software-defined object store purpose-built for AI and data-intensive workloads, with native PyTorch, Iceberg, and Hugging Face integration.
- **AIStor Pods** — Turnkey on-prem appliances designed to bring hyperscaler economics to private datacenters.
- **AIHub** — Private, Hugging Face API-compatible repository for storing AI models and datasets inside enterprise environments.
- **MinIO Community** — The original open-source, S3-compatible object server released under AGPLv3 - now in maintenance mode.

## Achievements

- Reached $1B unicorn valuation at Series B in January 2022
- Over 61,000 GitHub stars - among the most-starred infrastructure projects in the world
- Used by more than half of the Fortune 500
- Named one of the fastest-growing AI companies on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500
- First S3-compatible object store to support the Amazon S3 Express API outside AWS

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Announced AIStor Pods, packaged appliances bringing hyperscaler economics on-prem.
- **2025-06** — MinIO AIStor became the first object store to support the AWS S3 Express API.
- **2025-12** — Community edition of MinIO moved into maintenance mode on GitHub, sparking forks like OpenMinIO and pgsty/minio.
- **2024-11** — Released AIStor, repositioning around AI and data-intensive workloads.

## Links

- Website: https://min.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/minio-inc-
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Minio
- GitHub: https://github.com/minio/minio
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MinIO-Inc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Minio.io/

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Last updated: 2026-05-28