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Open Source Startups

Updated August 2026

Companies in the open source sector developing innovative solutions and technologies.

Explore 270 recently funded open source companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
270
Total Funding
$1.2B
Avg Funding
$49.1M
Global Reach
7
countries

Top Cities for Open Source

Madrid
San Francisco
New York
Copenhagen
Jersey City
Tokyo

Recently Funded Companies

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Madrid, Spain

Kaleidos is an open-source project management platform for tech-heavy startups.

$2.2M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

ToolJet is a low-code open-source platform for developing and deploying custom business applications.

Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Primal operates as a social media company that focus on building an open protocols like Nostr and Bitcoin.

$1.0M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Copenhagen, Denmark

Building blocks for digital commerce.

$8.0M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Maestro is an automated testing platform that helps developers create and run end-to-end tests for mobile and web applications.

$3.0M raised
Jul 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Airy is a data streaming platform that offers data for ML and AI applications.

Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative AI models.

$800.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Building internet infrastructure for web agents

Jul 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Jersey City, United States

Lyzr is an enterprise software company that offers AI porwered agent framework to build multi-agent workflows.

$100.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Tokyo, Japan

Tier IV creates technology-enabled driving software for the automotive industry that develops intelligent vehicles.

$6.2M raised
Jun 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

OpenReplay is an open-source, self-hostable, session replay and product analytics platform.

Jun 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Toronto, Canada

Bluefin is an orderbook-based derivatives exchange that uses the most innovative decentralized infrastructure.

Jun 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Boston, United States

Make beautiful websites regardless of your design experience - Open Source React UI Library

Jun 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Ghent, Belgium

Timefold is a platform that optimizes complex scheduling and routing tasks.

$13.0M raised
Jun 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

DioxusLabs An open source project focused to improving Rust UI.

$500K raised
Jun 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

Strapi is an open-source software platform that helps developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs.

$31.0M raised
Jun 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

Upsun provides tools to build, deploy, and manage web applications on a scalable cloud platform.

$139.9M raised
Jun 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

smol machines provides tools to build, run, and package portable hardware-isolated Linux virtual machines for software development.

Jun 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Boston, United States

OpenProse is an open-source infrastructure for long-running AI work: a declarative language plus the Reactor harness/runtime for workflows.

Jun 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santa Clara, United States

DataStax is a real-time data company for Gen AI applications.

$115.0M raised
Jun 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Strix is an open-source AI security platform that uses autonomous agents to continuously pentest applications, APIs, and codebases.

$6.7M raised
Jun 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Ona offers software teams a development platform that includes governance tools and sandbox environments.

Jun 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Osaka, Japan

BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users.

Jun 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Omnigres is a developer of an integrated data-computed cloud on top of an open-source Postgres platform.

$250K raised
May 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santa Clara, United States

Mage develops an open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data.

May 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

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About the Open Source Startup Ecosystem

The open source sector is an active area of startup innovation and venture capital investment. Companies in this space are developing new technologies, platforms, and services that address evolving market needs and create new business opportunities.

Funding Trends in Open Source

Open Source companies raise capital across various funding stages, from early seed rounds to late-stage growth financing. Investor interest in this sector is driven by the size of the addressable market, the pace of technology adoption, and the potential for scalable business models.

Growth Outlook

The open source sector is expected to continue evolving as technology advances, market dynamics shift, and new opportunities emerge. Companies that demonstrate strong product-market fit, efficient growth, and clear competitive advantages are well-positioned to attract continued investment.

Open Source Funding Breakdown

Here is how funding is distributed among the 270 open source companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$49.1M
Total Funding Tracked
$1.2B
Countries Represented
7

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Open Source

1.San Francisco
9 companies$810.5M
2.New York
3 companies$1.0M
3.Boston
2 companiesUndisclosed
4.Paris
2 companies$170.9M
5.Santa Clara
2 companies$115.0M

Related Industries

Companies in the open source sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.

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