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Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their network performance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.

Semgrep is a static code analysis platform that helps improve software security and reliability. It scrutinizes and ranks code from the entire software ecosystem to surface vulnerabilities, unsafe patterns, and examples of excellence from tech giants and open source leaders. The platform empowers developers, security teams, and researchers to compare the safety of open source projects, adopt best practices, and pursue secure coding, while facilitating fast software delivery rather than hindering it.

Oligo aims to streamline open source usage by making it secure and easy to protect. Focusing developers on the relevant vulnerabilities makes the fixing process significantly shorter. Oligo aims to simplify the use of open-source software by providing precise security solutions that help developers focus on relevant vulnerabilities without compromising performance.

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Aqua Security develops a comprehensive cloud-native application security platform. It offers prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application lifecycle, securing build processes, cloud infrastructure, and running workloads on various clouds and technologies like containers and serverless functions.

Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

AI4Bhrat is focused on developing open-source language AI for Indian languages, including datasets, models, and applications.

Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Semgrep is a static code analysis platform that helps improve software security and reliability. It scrutinizes and ranks code from the entire software ecosystem to surface vulnerabilities, unsafe patterns, and examples of excellence from tech giants and open source leaders. The platform empowers developers, security teams, and researchers to compare the safety of open source projects, adopt best practices, and pursue secure coding, while facilitating fast software delivery rather than hindering it.

Langfuse is a developer of an open-source analytics platform specifically designed for large language model (LLM) applications. The platform offers observability and analytics features that allow users to explore and debug complex logs and traces through a visual interface. By providing intuitive dashboards, Langfuse enables companies to enhance their applications by tracking and analyzing key metrics such as quality, cost, and latency across various product releases and use cases. This unified approach to the monetization stack helps organizations gain insights into their production environments, ultimately leading to improved performance and efficiency in their LLM applications.

Oligo aims to streamline open source usage by making it secure and easy to protect. Focusing developers on the relevant vulnerabilities makes the fixing process significantly shorter. Oligo aims to simplify the use of open-source software by providing precise security solutions that help developers focus on relevant vulnerabilities without compromising performance.

Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Elementor is the leading open-source website builder for WordPress, serving over 5 million websites globally. It caters to a rapidly growing base of web professionals, including developers, designers, and marketers, with a new site created every 10 seconds on its platform.

Supabase develops an open-source Firebase alternative that adds real-time and RESTful APIs to PostgreSQL databases without requiring any code. It offers a Postgres database, authentication tools, instant APIs, edge functions, real-time subscriptions, storage, and vector database embeddings.

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Voltron Data develops tools to enhance the existing data analytics ecosystem. It focuses on improving efficiency by creating modular and composable analytics building blocks.

Voltron Data develops tools to enhance the existing data analytics ecosystem. It focuses on improving efficiency by creating modular and composable analytics building blocks.

Astro is a company that supports web developers in creating efficient websites through its open-source build tool, established in 2019 by Fred K. Schott in San Francisco, California. The tool, which is licensed under MIT, renders directly to HTML and CSS, allowing for faster website performance. It enhances web accessibility by optimizing JavaScript hosting for the code that powers websites. Additionally, Astro is compatible with several popular frameworks, including React, Preact, Svelte, Solid, and Vue, making it a versatile choice for developers aiming to streamline their web development process.

Apex.AI develops software for autonomous mobility, offering a framework and tools that simplify the development of safe and secure autonomous driving applications. Its platform includes Apex.OS, which abstracts hardware, middleware, kernels, interfaces, and drivers into usable APIs, and Apex.Autonomy for safety-critical applications. It also offers MARV.Automotive, a data management platform that transfers vehicle data to the cloud, enables dynamic search-based analytics, analyzes partial logs, runs algorithms on real data, and provides graphical data introspection and team collaboration. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI builds on open-source software such as ROS and Eclipse iceoryx to provide building blocks for developers creating AI and safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles.

Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. Its flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, featuring low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built with innovative technologies such as auto sharding and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. The company offers various deployment options, including the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service solution suitable for public, private, or hybrid cloud environments, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to empower developers to build scalable, resilient applications with its open-source offerings.

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Founded in 2019 by veteran entrepreneurs, Salto specializes in streamlining business application configuration. Its innovative solution automatically extracts configurations from various applications like Salesforce and NetSuite, translating them into a collaborative, version-control-friendly language called NaCl. This enables easy testing, tracking, and rollback of configuration changes across multiple platforms.

Aqua Security develops a comprehensive cloud-native application security platform. It offers prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application lifecycle, securing build processes, cloud infrastructure, and running workloads on various clouds and technologies like containers and serverless functions.

Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. Its flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, featuring low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built with innovative technologies such as auto sharding and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. The company offers various deployment options, including the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service solution suitable for public, private, or hybrid cloud environments, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to empower developers to build scalable, resilient applications with its open-source offerings.

Founded in 2019 by veteran entrepreneurs, Salto specializes in streamlining business application configuration. Its innovative solution automatically extracts configurations from various applications like Salesforce and NetSuite, translating them into a collaborative, version-control-friendly language called NaCl. This enables easy testing, tracking, and rollback of configuration changes across multiple platforms.

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Elementor is the leading open-source website builder for WordPress, serving over 5 million websites globally. It caters to a rapidly growing base of web professionals, including developers, designers, and marketers, with a new site created every 10 seconds on its platform.

Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. Its flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, featuring low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built with innovative technologies such as auto sharding and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. The company offers various deployment options, including the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service solution suitable for public, private, or hybrid cloud environments, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to empower developers to build scalable, resilient applications with its open-source offerings.

Aqua Security develops a comprehensive cloud-native application security platform. It offers prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application lifecycle, securing build processes, cloud infrastructure, and running workloads on various clouds and technologies like containers and serverless functions.

Elementor is the leading open-source website builder for WordPress, serving over 5 million websites globally. It caters to a rapidly growing base of web professionals, including developers, designers, and marketers, with a new site created every 10 seconds on its platform.

Apex.AI develops software for autonomous mobility, offering a framework and tools that simplify the development of safe and secure autonomous driving applications. Its platform includes Apex.OS, which abstracts hardware, middleware, kernels, interfaces, and drivers into usable APIs, and Apex.Autonomy for safety-critical applications. It also offers MARV.Automotive, a data management platform that transfers vehicle data to the cloud, enables dynamic search-based analytics, analyzes partial logs, runs algorithms on real data, and provides graphical data introspection and team collaboration. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI builds on open-source software such as ROS and Eclipse iceoryx to provide building blocks for developers creating AI and safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles.

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in providing an open and composable monitoring and observability stack centered around its flagship product, Grafana, an open-source technology for dashboards and data visualization. With over 3,000 customers, including major corporations like Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce, the company serves a global user base exceeding 20 million. Grafana Labs offers solutions that help organizations manage their observability strategies through its LGTM Stack, which can be deployed as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud or as a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise. Their offerings include scalable metrics management through Grafana Mimir, log aggregation with Grafana Loki, and distributed tracing via Grafana Tempo. These tools enable firms to unify data from various sources, enhancing their monitoring capabilities while avoiding vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.

Aqua Security develops a comprehensive cloud-native application security platform. It offers prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application lifecycle, securing build processes, cloud infrastructure, and running workloads on various clouds and technologies like containers and serverless functions.

Apex.AI develops software for autonomous mobility, offering a framework and tools that simplify the development of safe and secure autonomous driving applications. Its platform includes Apex.OS, which abstracts hardware, middleware, kernels, interfaces, and drivers into usable APIs, and Apex.Autonomy for safety-critical applications. It also offers MARV.Automotive, a data management platform that transfers vehicle data to the cloud, enables dynamic search-based analytics, analyzes partial logs, runs algorithms on real data, and provides graphical data introspection and team collaboration. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI builds on open-source software such as ROS and Eclipse iceoryx to provide building blocks for developers creating AI and safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles.

Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. Its flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, featuring low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built with innovative technologies such as auto sharding and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. The company offers various deployment options, including the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service solution suitable for public, private, or hybrid cloud environments, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to empower developers to build scalable, resilient applications with its open-source offerings.

Aqua Security develops a comprehensive cloud-native application security platform. It offers prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application lifecycle, securing build processes, cloud infrastructure, and running workloads on various clouds and technologies like containers and serverless functions.

Heptio Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in making Kubernetes, an open-source container management software, accessible to enterprises. As a subsidiary of VMware, Heptio focuses on supporting and advancing the Kubernetes ecosystem, bridging the gap between traditional enterprise IT and cloud-native computing. The company's platform facilitates the automation of deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, enabling technology-driven organizations to fully leverage the capabilities of Kubernetes. By providing tools and operational models tailored for modern enterprises, Heptio aims to simplify the integration of Docker containers into production environments.

Streamlio, Inc. is a technology company specializing in real-time solutions for the messaging, processing, and storage of streaming data. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company leverages leading open-source technologies to provide a comprehensive platform that supports event-driven architecture, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. Streamlio's offerings include scalable messaging systems that facilitate both publish-subscribe and queuing models, as well as high-performance stream processing capabilities designed to manage real-time data efficiently. Additionally, Streamlio provides a distributed storage platform that accommodates streaming data at scale, making it suitable for critical applications across data centers, cloud environments, and edge computing. The company's solutions have been validated in large-scale implementations at prominent organizations, enhancing the ability of businesses to build data-driven applications that respond dynamically to real-time information. As of October 2019, Streamlio operates as a subsidiary of Splunk Inc.

Jovo is a developer of an open-source framework specifically designed for creating cross-platform voice applications, such as those for Alexa Skills and Google Assistant. The company focuses on facilitating the development of multimodal applications, allowing developers to build voice apps that can function across various platforms. Jovo provides essential resources, including support and tutorials, to assist clients in navigating the complexities of voice application development. Through its framework, Jovo aims to enhance the accessibility and functionality of voice technology for developers worldwide.

SnapRoute, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in developing an open-source network stack tailored for enterprises. Founded in 2015 and now part of Infoblox Inc., SnapRoute offers a cloud-native network operating system (CN-NOS) built on a microservice architecture with embedded Kubernetes. This innovative approach enables enterprises to utilize commoditized networking hardware with various open Linux operating systems, significantly reducing costs compared to traditional vendor systems. The company's platform allows for full visibility and modularity of network components, facilitating continuous updates and installations without disrupting business operations. By leveraging cloud-native technologies, SnapRoute enhances application deployment speed, improves security and compliance, and simplifies network operations, thereby addressing long-standing challenges in the networking industry.

Yugabyte, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. Its flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, featuring low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built with innovative technologies such as auto sharding and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. The company offers various deployment options, including the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed database-as-a-service solution suitable for public, private, or hybrid cloud environments, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed service available on major cloud platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Yugabyte aims to empower developers to build scalable, resilient applications with its open-source offerings.

SocketPlane, Inc. is a Palo Alto, California-based software development company that specializes in open source software-defined networking. Founded in 2014, the company provides solutions that facilitate the rapid deployment and connection of applications at scale. Its offerings include DevOps-defined networking, which enhances distributed security, application services, and orchestration for Docker and Linux containers. By focusing on transparency and ease of use for developers and network operations teams, SocketPlane aims to simplify the networking landscape in the context of containerized applications. In 2015, SocketPlane became a subsidiary of Docker, Inc., further aligning its innovations with the growing demand for efficient container management and networking solutions.

Docker develops an open container platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. The platform enables developers and operations teams to package applications into portable containers that run consistently across laptops, on-premises data centers, and public cloud environments. It provides container runtime and packaging tools, development language support and tooling for building, scaling, deploying, and load balancing, and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, the company aims to simplify application development and accelerate delivery from code to the cloud.

Jut, Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a development-stage company specializing in data analytics solutions for enterprises. It aims to create user-friendly applications that address specific real-world data challenges, leveraging the power of open-source communities.

Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to streamline and centralize the administration of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers organizations to better understand and manage their storage assets. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, customers experience enhanced asset utilization, improved management efficiency, superior service quality, and increased availability of their storage resources. The company's focus on simplifying storage management allows clients to maximize their investment in storage technology.

Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to streamline and centralize the administration of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers organizations to better understand and manage their storage assets. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, customers experience enhanced asset utilization, improved management efficiency, superior service quality, and increased availability of their storage resources. The company's focus on simplifying storage management allows clients to maximize their investment in storage technology.