About

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 founders

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 team

For the history buffs

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

2009

• March 2009 – The Mullvad VPN service launches!

2010

• July 2010 – We started accepting Bitcoin payments.
• September 2010 – Customers could start paying in cash!

2014

• April 2014 – We swiftly assessed and mitigated the Heartbleed vulnerability and then proved our hypothesis of its critical impact on OpenVPN.
• September 2014 – We demonstrated that OpenVPN is vulnerable to Shellshock, resulting in admin access, and warn our competitors before general disclosure.
• September 2014 – We launched IPv6 support

2017

• March 2017 – Our users were able to start using WireGuard
• December 2017 – We introduced a post-quantum secure VPN tunnel.

2018

• September 2018 – The independent audit on our VPN app was completed

2019

• June 2019 – Our new project on System Transparency was revealed, and we called upon our community to develop and encourage transparent systems.
• July 2019 – Mozilla partnered with us to utilise 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 added Malwarebytes as yet another partner using our server network.

2020

• June 2020 – All five platform versions of our VPN app underwent a thorough external security audit.
• December 2020 – No personally identifiable information (PII) or privacy leaks were found during the first independent security audit of our infrastructure.

2021

• February 2021 – We released an audited, beta version of a public DNS service.
• June 2021 – We started adding DNS content blocking to our apps, with the lists updated frequently and available here.
• August 2021 – We added Split-tunneling support to our Windows, Android and Linux apps.

2022

• January 2022 – We added a pair of WireGuard servers running entirely from RAM, as the start of our journey towards System Transparency began.
• March 2022 – Multihop support for WireGuard was added to the desktop apps, for more privacy and to make your traffic harder to analyse.
• March 2022 – Our Firefox extension, Mullvad Privacy Companion was made open source
• May 2022 – The Monero cryptocurrency was added as a supported method of payment.
• June 2022 – Subscriptions were no longer accepted, as a way of storing even less information about customers
• July 2022 – Post-quantum WireGuard tunnel support was added in an experimental form, available in the desktop app.
• July 2022 – It became possible to purchase Mullvad VPN physical activation codes from Amazon in certain countries, with many other countries becoming available in the months that followed.

2023

• April 2023 – We released the Mullvad Browser in collaboration with the Tor Project.
• June 2023 - We released our privacy focused search engine Leta.
• September 2023 – Partnership with Tailscale.
• September 2023 – Completed migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure.

2024

• February 2024 - We self-host our support email.
• May 2024 - We released DAITA (Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis)