About us

Mullvad VPN AB is owned by parent company Amagicom AB. The name Amagicom is derived from the Sumerian word ama-gi – the oldest word for “freedom” or, literally, “back to mother” in the context of slavery – and the abbreviation for communication. Amagicom stands for “free communication”.

The team

Mullvad VPN AB and its parent company Amagicom AB are 100% owned by founders Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson who are actively involved in the company.

The rest of the team

Robin Lövgren, Simon Andersson, Linus, Richard Mitra, Sanny Mitra, Odd, Andrej Mihajlov, Alexander Busck, Stefan, David Lönnhager, Oskar Nyberg, Joshua Björkäng, Eric Pütter, Emil Pütter, Matilda, rui hildt, Grégoire Détrez, Victor Johansson, Albin, Douglas Afzelius, Hank, Michal Petrucha, Steph, Maria, Jan Jonsson

For the history buffs

These are just a few of the milestones we’re particularly proud of:

March 2009 – The Mullvad VPN service launches!
July 2010 – In the name of our customers’ anonymity, we start accepting Bitcoin payments.
September 2010 – Customers can now start paying in good ol’-fashioned cash, another win for anonymous payments.
April 2014 – We swiftly assess and mitigate the Heartbleed vulnerability and then prove our hypothesis of its critical impact on OpenVPN.
September 2014 – We demonstrate that OpenVPN is vulnerable to Shellshock, resulting in admin access, and warn our competitors before general disclosure.
September 2014 – We launch IPv6 support (this is a really nerdy thing, but trust us, it’s cool).
March 2017 – Our users are able to start using WireGuard, the new, hip VPN protocol on the block.
December 2017 – We introduce a post-quantum secure VPN tunnel.
September 2018 – The independent audit on our new VPN app gives us really good grades.
October 2018 – What makes a trustworthy VPN? We engage in a multilateral initiative to cultivate more transparency and honesty within our industry.
June 2019 – Our new project on System Transparency is revealed, and we call on our community to develop and encourage transparent systems.
July 2019 – Mozilla partners with us to utilize our global network of VPN servers for its own VPN application.
August 2019 – We succeed in porting open-source firmware to an off-the-shelf server, a first in history and getting us one step closer to our vision of System Transparency.
October 2019 – We add Malwarebytes as yet another partner using our server network.
June 2020 – All five platform versions of our VPN app undergo a thorough external security audit.
December 2020 – No personally identifiable information (PII) or privacy leaks are found during the first independent security audit of our infrastructure.
February 2021 – We released an audited, beta version of a public DNS service that offers DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS, with QNAME minimization and easylist_adservers ad blocking.