Headquartered in Oslo, Norway,[1] it was founded in 2013 by Jon von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita.

[7] They also have developers in Helsinki, Finland; Prague, Czech Republic; Lille, France, and other locations.

[8] Vivaldi.net is a community-based platform that was originally launched in January 2014,[3][9] which was created as a replacement to My Opera, due to the latter's planned closure in May 2014.

Prior to the release of the browser, the company made the promise to integrate an email client, as a means to build "Opera as it should have been",[4] which also integrated an email client into the Opera browser before becoming a separate product.

In November 2020, the first technical preview of the email client, calendar, and feed reader were released.