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Open Source Startups

Updated July 2026

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

Explore 215 recently funded open source companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
215
Total Funding
$400.1M
Avg Funding
$16.0M
Global Reach
8
countries

Top Cities for Open Source

San Francisco
Seattle
Reggio Nell'emilia
Zug
San Jose
Vizinada

Recently Funded Companies

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San Francisco, United States

Kilo Code provides an open-source AI-powered coding assistant that supports code generation, debugging, and documentation.

$8.0M raised
Dec 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Seattle, United States

Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.

Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Reggio Nell'emilia, Italy

Pioneering Data Management for Physical AI and Robotics.

$1.2M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Zug, Switzerland

Lisk is a blockchain application platform based in Zug, Switzerland.

Jan 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Gel is a developer of the first open-source graph-relational database.

$15.0M raised
Nov 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Jose, United States

ZEDEDA is a provider of distributed orchestration and virtualization software for Edge AI Compute.

Jan 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Vizinada, Croatia

Instant local-first for your Postgres

Nov 2023

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Groningen, The Netherlands

Odyssey is the maker of metaverse stack for collaboration based in The Netherlands.

$4.6M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Stockholm, Sweden

ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.

$10.0M raised
Jan 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

The collaborative data canvas

$35.6M raised
Jan 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Los Altos, United States

A No-code LLM platform to eliminate manual processes and automate workflows involving unstructured data.

$5.2M raised
Nov 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Houston, United States

CodeNotary is a software company providing security technology to make the software supply chains and SBOMs secure, trusted and verifiable.

$16.5M raised
Nov 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Wilmington, United States

Catalyst is an open-source liquidity protocol for modular blockchains, developed by Cata Labs.

Jan 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Carver, United States

Open Source Software Development

$250K raised
Jan 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Toronto, Canada

One of the largest SaaS Directory on the Web

$500K raised
Nov 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Berlin, Germany

Jina AI provides a comprehensive suite of tools, including Reader, Embeddings, Rerankers, and Small Language Models.

$30.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Kansas City, United States

Mycroft is a developer of an open source voice assistant platform designed to handle operating systems.

$554K raised
Jan 2022

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.

$175.0M raised
Nov 2024

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Zürich, Switzerland

Auterion provides a platform that unifies a diverse fleet of autonomous robots, catering to a wide range of applications and use cases.

Nov 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Gradle provides the most popular open source build tool for the Java ecosystem and the Develocity commercial build analytics solution

$27.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Yarmouth Port, United States

VoxCroft Analytics is a global leader in open-source intelligence (OSINT) and risk analytics.

$2.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Boulder, United States

Gitcoin is a platform that enables open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.

$500K raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Mateo, United States

Alluxio is a web-scale producer that develops data orchestration for AI analytics and cloud services.

$50.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

comma is solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries: openpilot and the comma two.

$10.0M raised
Nov 2021

Founder Contacts

30,000+ verified contacts

Seattle, United States

Hedgehog delivers open networking software allows organizations design, deploy, and operate modern AI data centers

$8.1M raised
Nov 2025

Founder Contacts

30,000+ 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 215 open source companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$16.0M
Total Funding Tracked
$400.1M
Countries Represented
8

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Open Source

1.San Francisco
6 companies$270.6M
2.Seattle
2 companies$8.1M
3.Reggio Nell'emilia
1 companies$1.2M
4.Zug
1 companiesUndisclosed
5.San Jose
1 companiesUndisclosed

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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