Companies in the open source sector developing innovative solutions and technologies.
Explore 273 recently funded open source companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.
Open source infrastructure that allows people, entities, and things—including AI—to connect securely while being invisible to bad actors
Orkes offers a platform for modern workflow orchestration, allowing businesses to build and scale complex software applications.
Firezone is an open-source security platform to manage secure remote access for teams.
Speckle is a collaborative data hub that connects various AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) tools.
Parasail is an AI deployment network that enables organizations to run and scale AI workloads without managing physical hardware.
Alien is a project building a decentralized “proof of humanity” and identity network designed for the age of AI, with blockchain and token.
The closed-loop AI development platform for all software that runs on a chip
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The leading community for developers to discover, compare and choose open-source technologies.
SCRT Labs shares and analyzes encrypted data.
Developing AI Refactoring Tools for Enterprise Security and Technical Debt Reduction
Kestra is an orchestration platform that serves as the control plane for business-critical workflows across data, infrastructure, and AI.
FerretDB is an open source MongoDB-compatible database
Inrupt is delivering Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of a web of shared benefit, for everyone.
ARC Prize seeks to develop benchmarks that probe AI for human-level intelligence
SkipLabs builds infrastructure for reactive applications.
Sol PBC is a public benefits company that offers open-source tools and services for individuals to gain insight from their personal data.
Activepieces is an open source business automation software that allows users to automate their work without writing code.
Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine and database for next-generation AI applications.
Grafana Labs is an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics.
Convoy is an online gateway that sends, receives, and manages webhooks events.
Apollo GraphQL helps developers build better software with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration.
Prefect is a Python-based orchestration platform that empowers data teams to build resilient, adaptable data pipelines and workflows.
camelAI is a self-hosted secure platform for vibe coding real software.
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.
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.
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.
Here is how funding is distributed among the 273 open source companies tracked in the VCBacked database.
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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