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If you’re in the Open Source industry or are interested in starting a company in this space, this article dives into 30 of the hottest fast-growing Open Source startups.
30 of the Most Successful Open Source Startups
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GitLab is a web-based open source Git repository manager with built-in CI/CD, wiki, and issue tracking functionality.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Dmitriy Zaporozhets, Sytse Sijbrandij
- Number of employees: 1001-5000
- Funding amount: $434,200,000
- Number of funding rounds: 10
- Number of investors: 26
You can find their website here.
2) Docker
Docker is a free and open platform for developing, delivering, and running distributed apps.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Solomon Hykes
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $330,855,439
- Number of funding rounds: 11
- Number of investors: 31
You can find their website here.
3) Prefect
Prefect is a workflow management solution that assists data teams in resolving data flow issues.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Washington D.C.
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: Jeremiah Lowin
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $57,594,793
- Number of funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 10
You can find their website here.
4) Mapbox
Mapbox is a platform for mobile and online applications that uses location data.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Washington D.C.
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Bonnie Bogle, Eric Gundersen
- Number of employees: 501-1000
- Funding amount: $334,175,000
- Number of funding rounds: 5
- Number of investors: 10
You can find their website here.
5) Stacks
Stacks is a bitcoin app development business that creates smart contracts, digital assets, and bitcoin apps.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: New York
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shea
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $93,780,000
- Number of funding rounds: 13
- Number of investors: 35
You can find their website here.
6) Crate.io
Crate.io creates CrateDB, a database designed to scale applications in the age of machine data.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Bernd Dorn, Christian Lutz, Jodok Batlogg
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $27,894,793
- Number of funding rounds: 8
- Number of investors: 15
You can find their website here.
7) Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a group of dedicated people who want to change the way software is designed, created, and delivered.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Chicago
- Started in: 1993
- Founders: Roy Singham
- Number of employees: 5001-10000
- Funding amount: $748,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 2
- Number of investors: 6
You can find their website here.
8) Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is a free and open-source software platform for monitoring, visualization, and metric analysis.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: New York
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Anthony Woods, Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding amount: $75,230,000
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 2
You can find their website here.
9) PostHog
PostHog is an open-source product analytics tool that aids software developers in understanding user behavior.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: James Hawkins, Tim Glaser
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $27,150,000
- Number of funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 5
You can find their website here.
10) Anaconda
Anaconda is a data science platform and modern machine learning's foundation.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Austin
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Hugo Shi, Peter Wang, Travis Oliphant
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding amount: $47,099,991
- Number of funding rounds: 6
- Number of investors: 3
You can find their website here.
11) Starburst Data
Starburst Data is a data access and analytics firm that is currently working on a SQL query engine.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Boston
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Anu Sudarsan, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips, Grzegorz Kokosiński, Justin Borgman, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Karol Sobczak, Martin Traverso, Matt Fuller, Piotr Findeisen, Wojciech Biela
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding amount: $164,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 4
You can find their website here.
12) Graylog
Graylog is a fully integrated log message collection, indexing, and analysis tool.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Houston
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Hass Chapman, Lennart Koopmann
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $27,400,000
- Number of funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 10
You can find their website here.
13) YourBase
For fast-growing development teams, YourBase accelerates software testing.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Seattle
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: John Ewart, Yves Junqueira
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $5,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 1
- Number of investors: 3
You can find their website here.
14) Platform.sh
Platform.sh is a complete online platform that enables businesses to create, manage, and expand their websites and apps.
Details of the startup:
- Country: France
- City: Paris
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Damien Tournoud, Fred Plais, Ori Pekelman, Ryan Szrama
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding amount: $47,300,000
- Number of funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 8
You can find their website here.
15) Odoo
Odoo SA is an open-source business application package that is actively programmed, supported, and managed.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Belgium
- City: Grand-rosière
- Started in: 2005
- Founders: Fabien Pinckaers
- Number of employees: 1001-5000
- Funding amount: $104,121,196
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 5
You can find their website here.
16) Fishtown Analytics
Fishtown Analytics is an open-source analytics engineering tool developer.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Philadelphia
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Connor McArthur, Drew Banin, Tristan Handy
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $42,400,000
- Number of funding rounds: 2
- Number of investors: 3
You can find their website here.
17) Acquia
Acquia is a company that focuses in cloud-based digital experience management.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Boston
- Started in: 2007
- Founders: Dries Buytaert, Jay Batson
- Number of employees: 1001-5000
- Funding amount: $173,500,000
- Number of funding rounds: 10
- Number of investors: 13
You can find their website here.
18) PrestaShop
PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce platform that is used by over 250,000 retailers around the world.
Details of the startup:
- Country: France
- City: Paris
- Started in: 2007
- Founders: Bruno Leveque, Igor Schlumberger
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding amount: $14,733,259
- Number of funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 13
You can find their website here.
19) Hull
Hull assists companies in orchestrating client data and personalizing customer experiences at scale.
Details of the startup:
- Country: United States
- City: Atlanta
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Jimmy Oliger, Matthieu Chereau, Romain Dardour, Stefan Koenig, Stéphane Bellity
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $5,201,199
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 11
You can find their website here.
20) Moodle
Moodle is a learning platform that is free and open-source software.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Australia
- City: Perth
- Started in: 2002
- Founders: Martin Dougiamas
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $6,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 1
You can find their website here.
21) Zilliz
Zilliz is a startup that analyzes unstructured data using AI.
Details of the startup:
- Country: China
- City: Shanghai
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Charles Xie
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $53,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 6
You can find their website here.
22) Eficode
With operations in Northern and Western Europe, Eficode is a DevOps, software, automation, and design company.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Finland
- City: Helsinki
- Started in: 2005
- Founders: Risto Virkkala
- Number of employees: 251-500
- Funding amount: € 6,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 1
- Number of investors: 1
You can find their website here.
23) Jina AI
We offer a cloud-native neural search solution that is powered by cutting-edge AI technology.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Germany
- City: Berlin
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: Han Xiao, Xuanbin He
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $7,500,000
- Number of funding rounds: 2
- Number of investors: 3
You can find their website here.
24) German Bionic
Exoskeleton technology is being developed by German Bionic to help people improve their physical abilities.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Germany
- City: Augsburg
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Armin G. Schmidt, Dr. Peter Heiligensetzer, Michael Halbherr
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $23,500,000
- Number of funding rounds: 2
- Number of investors: 8
You can find their website here.
25) Luos
For efficiently building, testing, and deploying embedded applications, use an open source and real-time architecture.
Details of the startup:
- Country: France
- City: Bordeaux
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: Emanuel Allely, Nicolas Rabault, Simon Baudry
- Number of employees: 1-10
- Funding amount: € 1,380,000
- Number of funding rounds: 2
- Number of investors: 7
You can find their website here.
26) Yotako
Yotako speeds up web and mobile app development by allowing for a seamless transition from design to code.
Details of the startup:
- Country: Luxembourg
- City: Esch-sur-alzette
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Alfonso Garcia Frey, Damien Neuberg
- Number of employees: 1-10
- Funding amount: € 1,250,000
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 1
You can find their website here.
27) deepset
Enterprise semantic search to the next level, powered by the latest NLP and open-source technologies
Details of the startup:
- Country: Germany
- City: Berlin
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: Malte Pietsch, Milos Rusic, Timo Möller
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: $1,600,000
- Number of funding rounds: 2
- Number of investors: 6
You can find their website here.
28) EMQ Technologies
In the 5G era, you'll need a messaging and streaming engine to harness the power of your IoT platform and apps.
Details of the startup:
- Country: China
- City: Hangzhou
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Feng Lee, Rocky Jin, Susan Gao
- Number of employees: 51-100
- Funding amount: $21,430,649
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 6
You can find their website here.
29) ERPNext
ERPNext is an open source, online ERP solution that incorporates accounting, CRM, inventory, purchasing, human resources, and support, among other features.
Details of the startup:
- Country: India
- City: Mumbai
- Started in: 2008
- Founders: Rushabh Mehta
- Number of employees: 11-50
- Funding amount: ₹100,000,000
- Number of funding rounds: 1
- Number of investors: 1
You can find their website here.
30) CODING
CODING is a corporation that offers free online programming tutorials to people who are new to the field.
Details of the startup:
- Country: China
- City: Shenzhen
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Zhang Hailong
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding amount: $26,615,024
- Number of funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 3
You can find their website here.
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