SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment group founded in 1992 that focuses on supporting entrepreneurs in the software-centric consumer and enterprise sectors across the United States. The organization assists founders at crucial stages of their business development by providing strategic advice, financing, and support for mergers and acquisitions. Unlike traditional venture capital firms that typically invest in a limited number of companies annually, SV Angel is known for its high volume of investments, often exceeding 100 companies each year. By leveraging its extensive network, SV Angel aims to help startups build sustainable and enduring companies.

Ashvin Bachireddy

Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Past deals in Open Source

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform focused on open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. It provides developers with a robust ecosystem for creating intelligent and optimized AI applications through its feature-rich tools. By offering native model hosting and permissionless composability, OpenGradient aims to democratize model ownership, enhance verifiability, and ensure access to models without censorship. Its heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and proprietary NeuroML library support secure AI workflows, enabling features such as inference and statistical analysis. Additionally, OpenGradient fosters open-source innovation by providing a web portal and software development kit (SDK) that allows Web2 developers to utilize its AI stack without the complexities of blockchain, while still benefiting from the security and composability inherent in decentralized infrastructure.

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform focused on open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. It provides developers with a robust ecosystem for creating intelligent and optimized AI applications through its feature-rich tools. By offering native model hosting and permissionless composability, OpenGradient aims to democratize model ownership, enhance verifiability, and ensure access to models without censorship. Its heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and proprietary NeuroML library support secure AI workflows, enabling features such as inference and statistical analysis. Additionally, OpenGradient fosters open-source innovation by providing a web portal and software development kit (SDK) that allows Web2 developers to utilize its AI stack without the complexities of blockchain, while still benefiting from the security and composability inherent in decentralized infrastructure.

Together AI

Series A in 2024
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. The company contributes cutting-edge open-source research, models, and datasets to push the boundaries of AI forward. Through its decentralized cloud services, developers and researchers at organizations of various scales are empowered to train, refine, and deploy generative AI models.

Together AI

Seed Round in 2023
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. The company contributes cutting-edge open-source research, models, and datasets to push the boundaries of AI forward. Through its decentralized cloud services, developers and researchers at organizations of various scales are empowered to train, refine, and deploy generative AI models.

Hugging Face

Series C in 2022
Hugging Face, Inc. is an open-source platform provider specializing in machine learning technologies, founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on democratizing machine learning by facilitating collaboration on models, datasets, and applications within a community-driven environment. Hugging Face offers tools and services that allow users to create, discover, and collaborate on machine learning projects. In addition to its community platform, the company provides paid computing and enterprise solutions aimed at accelerating development processes. Through its commitment to open-source practices, Hugging Face supports users in advancing the field of machine learning.

Airbyte

Series B in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform automates the creation of data pipelines using both pre-built and custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently gather analytics from all users, including those employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on simplifying data integration, Airbyte empowers organizations to streamline their data processes and enhance their analytical capabilities.

Infracost

Seed Round in 2021
Infracost is a cost-estimating platform that integrates into engineering workflows to provide insights on how code changes will impact cloud expenses before deployment. Utilizing an open-source framework, the platform enables users to assess the financial implications of their code modifications by calculating the expected increase in cloud costs and presenting the percentage change in billing. This functionality allows clients, particularly those responsible for acquiring cloud resources, to make informed decisions about their infrastructure usage, ensuring that they manage costs effectively and efficiently.

Evidence

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Evidence is an open-source business intelligence platform that enables analysts to create polished data products using SQL and markdown. This code-based alternative to traditional drag-and-drop BI tools facilitates the development of reliable and version-controlled reporting systems. With its enhanced component library, Evidence allows users to incorporate various charts and graphs into their reports, ensuring consistency and trustworthiness in their outputs. By leveraging a markup language for report generation, Evidence empowers SQL analysts to produce high-quality business reports and dashboards efficiently.

SST

Seed Round in 2021
SST is an open-source framework designed to facilitate the development of serverless applications. It provides developers with tools to create, test, and deploy Lambda functions in real-time, streamlining the development process. The platform manages pipelines, configures environments, and monitors deployments, allowing clients to efficiently build full-stack applications tailored to their business needs. Additionally, SST is recognized for producing a highly regarded resource for developers seeking guidance in building serverless applications.

Airbyte

Series A in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform automates the creation of data pipelines using both pre-built and custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently gather analytics from all users, including those employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on simplifying data integration, Airbyte empowers organizations to streamline their data processes and enhance their analytical capabilities.

Pyroscope

Seed Round in 2021
Pyroscope is an open-source tool designed for continuous profiling to help developers monitor and debug applications and APIs. Founded in 2020 and based in Oakland, California, Pyroscope provides a platform that enables users to identify performance issues and bottlenecks in their code. The technology includes features for code editing, debugging, and sampling profiling, allowing users to optimize application performance effectively. Additionally, the platform supports building custom data storage engines for storing and profiling data, enhancing the overall development process.

Infracost

Seed Round in 2021
Infracost is a cost-estimating platform that integrates into engineering workflows to provide insights on how code changes will impact cloud expenses before deployment. Utilizing an open-source framework, the platform enables users to assess the financial implications of their code modifications by calculating the expected increase in cloud costs and presenting the percentage change in billing. This functionality allows clients, particularly those responsible for acquiring cloud resources, to make informed decisions about their infrastructure usage, ensuring that they manage costs effectively and efficiently.

Splitgraph

Seed Round in 2020
Splitgraph is a developer of integrated data catalog software that enables users to combine multiple data sources into reproducible data images. The platform features an HTTP API and a PostgreSQL-compatible endpoint, allowing users to run queries on datasets using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. It utilizes columnar storage, optimizing it for fast aggregation queries, making it suitable for modern web applications. Splitgraph's indexes include diverse data sources, such as live databases and versioned data snapshots, facilitating a seamless connection to a data delivery network. This functionality empowers data scientists and engineers to create, share, and extend datasets in a straightforward and reproducible manner.

Isovalent

Series A in 2020
Isovalent, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions for enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in cloud-native environments. The company's flagship product, Cilium, leverages eBPF to enhance networking, security, and observability for Kubernetes deployments across both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Isovalent offers Cilium Enterprise, which focuses on security automation, compliance, and integration with legacy systems, along with open-source tools that facilitate network connectivity, threat detection, and security compliance monitoring. Founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, Isovalent serves a diverse clientele, including major organizations like Adobe, AWS, and Google. The company was established in 2016 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California, with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland.

PostHog

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform designed for developers, founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools that includes product analytics, session recording, funnels, feature flags, and experimentation, all integrated into a single solution. By automating event tracking and user data collection, PostHog enables engineers to understand product usage and user behavior more effectively. This functionality allows development teams to create applications that are better tailored to their users' needs.

EdgeDB

Seed Round in 2019
EdgeDB is an innovative company focused on transforming the relational database landscape. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, it offers an open-source object-relational database platform designed to address common challenges faced by developers and data engineers. By introducing a streamlined data model and a powerful query language, EdgeDB aims to enhance productivity and ease of use, making data management more efficient. The platform enables developers to construct complex queries, subqueries, and nested inserts with a composable syntax that simplifies the representation of selection sets and property assignments. This approach helps mitigate the impedance mismatch often encountered in traditional databases, allowing for the development of safer and more efficient software.

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.

Preset

Series A in 2019
Preset Inc. is a visual analytics company based in San Mateo, California, established in 2018. The company offers an open analytics data platform built on Apache Superset, designed to enhance productivity in data exploration and analysis. Its platform features an intuitive visual interface that allows users to create flexible dashboards and utilize a wide range of visualization types, facilitating efficient communication of data-driven insights. The cloud-native nature of Preset's solution supports modern team workflows, enabling data professionals to analyze, share, and make informed decisions based on their data.

Hugging Face

Seed Round in 2018
Hugging Face, Inc. is an open-source platform provider specializing in machine learning technologies, founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on democratizing machine learning by facilitating collaboration on models, datasets, and applications within a community-driven environment. Hugging Face offers tools and services that allow users to create, discover, and collaborate on machine learning projects. In addition to its community platform, the company provides paid computing and enterprise solutions aimed at accelerating development processes. Through its commitment to open-source practices, Hugging Face supports users in advancing the field of machine learning.

Hugging Face

Angel Round in 2017
Hugging Face, Inc. is an open-source platform provider specializing in machine learning technologies, founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on democratizing machine learning by facilitating collaboration on models, datasets, and applications within a community-driven environment. Hugging Face offers tools and services that allow users to create, discover, and collaborate on machine learning projects. In addition to its community platform, the company provides paid computing and enterprise solutions aimed at accelerating development processes. Through its commitment to open-source practices, Hugging Face supports users in advancing the field of machine learning.

Metabase

Convertible Note in 2016
Metabase is an open-source analytics and business intelligence application founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to create dashboards and reports, facilitating the measurement, analysis, and sharing of data to address complex business challenges. Metabase offers various professional services, including managed hosting and support, as well as assistance with implementing customized analytics solutions. This enables organizations to track data trends over time, enhancing their decision-making processes.

Styra

Seed Round in 2015
Styra, Inc. is a technology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to enforce and monitor authorization policies across their applications and infrastructure. The Styra platform utilizes an Open Policy Agent to provide a comprehensive solution for managing security and compliance risks. Its features include context-based admission control, policy design and validation, policy distribution, and monitoring and auditing capabilities. By implementing authorization policy-as-code, Styra allows businesses to pre-validate policy changes, thereby mitigating risks before deployment. The platform also supports a range of environments, including multi-cloud, microservices, containers, and databases, ensuring that security policies can be defined and enforced consistently across various namespaces and clusters.

Cockroach Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

D2iQ

Series B in 2014
D2iq, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a datacenter operating system (DCOS) to streamline the management and deployment of applications across physical and cloud-based infrastructures. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, D2iq's core product, Mesosphere DCOS, is built on open-source technology and simplifies the execution of applications in a data center environment, akin to launching apps on a personal computer. The company also offers solutions such as Mesosphere Infinity, which facilitates the transformation of Big Data into actionable insights, and Conductor, an interactive platform for hands-on cloud-native training. In addition to its software offerings, D2iq provides architectural and consulting services, including expert consultations, on-site training, and custom installations. The company's strategic alliances with prominent firms enhance its service offerings, enabling organizations to adopt open-source and cloud-native innovations effectively.

PipelineDB

Seed Round in 2014
Open-source extension to PostgreSQL under the Apache 2.0 license, PipelineDB enables continuous SQL queries on streaming time-series data for building realtime reporting applications.

D2iQ

Seed Round in 2013
D2iq, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a datacenter operating system (DCOS) to streamline the management and deployment of applications across physical and cloud-based infrastructures. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, D2iq's core product, Mesosphere DCOS, is built on open-source technology and simplifies the execution of applications in a data center environment, akin to launching apps on a personal computer. The company also offers solutions such as Mesosphere Infinity, which facilitates the transformation of Big Data into actionable insights, and Conductor, an interactive platform for hands-on cloud-native training. In addition to its software offerings, D2iq provides architectural and consulting services, including expert consultations, on-site training, and custom installations. The company's strategic alliances with prominent firms enhance its service offerings, enabling organizations to adopt open-source and cloud-native innovations effectively.

Elastic

Series B in 2013
Elastic is a technology company that develops the open-source Elastic Stack, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, as well as commercial features through X-Pack and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS offerings. The company's flagship product, Elasticsearch, is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for scalability and speed, supporting diverse applications such as search, logging, metrics, and data security. With more than 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's solutions are utilized by a wide array of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NASA, and The New York Times, to manage mission-critical systems. The company's architecture is optimized for low latency and includes native vector database capabilities. Elastic has a global workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries, reflecting its commitment to innovation and customer service in the field of data management and analytics.

Discourse

Seed Round in 2012
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform designed to enhance online communication in today's digital landscape. It serves multiple functions, including that of a mailing list, discussion forum, and long-form chat room, making it adaptable for various user needs. By reimagining traditional online discussion formats, Discourse aims to facilitate searchable and engaging conversations among users. The platform includes features such as a trust system, notifications, and community moderation, allowing users to connect with one another and foster meaningful interactions. Discourse is focused on creating a modern environment for discussions, emphasizing user experience and community engagement.

GitHub

Series A in 2012
GitHub offers a software development platform that supports both open-source and private projects, allowing developers to store and share code repositories. Its services enable users to collaborate effectively through features such as version control, access control, task management, issue tracking, and feature requests. This platform fosters teamwork by helping users address challenges, advance ideas, and learn collaboratively. By providing these tools, GitHub enhances the software development process for individuals and organizations alike.

WibiData

Series A in 2012
WibiData is a software company that provides big data applications for enterprises to deliver personalized experiences across channels. Its platform is built on open-source technologies Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro and the Kiji Project. WibiData was founded under the name Odiago in 2010 by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball and Garrett Wu. Based in San Francisco, Calif., WibiData is backed by Canaan Partners, New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel and several notable seed investors. For more information, visit www.wibidata.com.

Flotype

Seed Round in 2012
Flotype Inc. is a venture-backed company building a suite of enterprise technology for real-time messaging. Flotype takes a unique approach by building developer-friendly technologies focused on ease-of-use and simplicity, while still exceeding enterprise-grade performance expectations. Flotype licenses enterprise-grade middleware, Bridge, to customers ranging from social web and software enterprises to financial and fleet management groups. Other offerings include NowJS, a free, open-source framework, for developers seeking real-time interactivity on Node.js and JavaScript browsers. NowCluster is available for companies seeking scalability and reliability for NowJS applications. Established in 2010 and based in Berkeley, California, Flotype is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, InterWest Partners, and Salesforce.com.

Apollo GraphQL

Seed Round in 2011
Apollo GraphQL helps developers help the world by providing a better API platform across teams. Apollo’s open-source software is downloaded 25M times per month and its commercial GraphQL technologies power the most innovative brands today. Teams at Netflix, Snap, and the New York Times ship personalized, omnichannel experiences faster with a supergraph – a self-service GraphQL platform that spans any number of backend services. Serving over 5T requests in 2023, the Apollo GraphOS platform simplifies API development with workflows and infrastructure to build, test, and ship supergraphs at any scale. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.

RethinkDB

Series A in 2011
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform designed specifically for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications more efficiently by allowing the database to push updated query results directly to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports data storage in JSON documents and features a user-friendly query language that includes capabilities such as table joins and groupBy. The platform is built for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with the tools to manage clusters effectively, monitor production environments with live statistics, and gain complete visibility into ongoing tasks. This combination of features allows RethinkDB to facilitate the rapid development of realtime applications while maintaining simplicity and scalability.

dotCloud

Series A in 2011
DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container.

WibiData

Seed Round in 2010
WibiData is a software company that provides big data applications for enterprises to deliver personalized experiences across channels. Its platform is built on open-source technologies Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro and the Kiji Project. WibiData was founded under the name Odiago in 2010 by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball and Garrett Wu. Based in San Francisco, Calif., WibiData is backed by Canaan Partners, New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel and several notable seed investors. For more information, visit www.wibidata.com.

RethinkDB

Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform designed specifically for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications more efficiently by allowing the database to push updated query results directly to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports data storage in JSON documents and features a user-friendly query language that includes capabilities such as table joins and groupBy. The platform is built for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with the tools to manage clusters effectively, monitor production environments with live statistics, and gain complete visibility into ongoing tasks. This combination of features allows RethinkDB to facilitate the rapid development of realtime applications while maintaining simplicity and scalability.

Adobe Fonts

Seed Round in 2009
Adobe Fonts allows subscribers to embed fonts into online documents and websites, as well as activate fonts on their desktop computers. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries. Their fonts are served from a global network on redundant servers, offering bulletproof service and incredible speed. Adobe Fonts is formerly Typekit, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011.
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