Redis Ltd was founded under the name Garantia Data In June 2012, the company announced a
beta version of its
cloud services at GigaOm's Structure LaunchPad. Redis Enterprise Cloud became generally available in February 2013. In October 2013, Garantia Data acquired MyRedis, a competing hosted
Redis provider. On January 29, 2014, the company changed its name from Garantia Data to Redis Labs. In early 2015, Redis Labs made available the Redis Enterprise Pack. On July 15, 2015, the creator of Redis and lead developer, Salvatore Sanfilippo, joined Redis Labs and they became the official sponsor of the open source project. In May 2016, the company announced a mechanism for developers to extend Redis, and opened an online marketplace that offers modules certified to work with both open source Redis and Redis' Enterprise products. In August 2018, the company changed the license of its Redis modules from
AGPL to
Apache2 modified with
Commons Clause. In February 2019, the company changed the license of Redis modules to Redis Source Available License (RSAL). In April 2019, the company acquired RDBTools, a
graphical user interface to manage Redis from HashedIn. Salvatore Sanfilippo stepped down as Redis's lead maintainer in the end of June 2020, leaving the project in the hands of Redis Labs. On August 11, 2021, the company changed its name from Redis Labs to Redis, having acquired the intellectual property and trademark rights to Redis from Sanfilippo back in 2018. On March 20, 2024, the company went back on its promise of keeping the
3-clause BSD license and switched the open-source
Redis project to a source-available license model. Between June 15 and July 14, 2024, Redis relocated its headquarters from Mountain View, California to
San Francisco. The company’s Redis Enterprise platform is presently used by companies such as
Capital One,
Dick's Sporting Goods, and
Kabam. == Funding ==