SV Angel

SV Angel, established in 2009 and based in San Francisco, is an investment firm that supports early-stage entrepreneurs. They provide business development, financing, M&A, and strategic advice to help startups navigate key inflection points and accelerate growth. SV Angel invests primarily in software-focused companies across the United States, with a typical investment size ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. They differentiate themselves by investing in a higher volume of companies, often over 100 per year, compared to traditional venture capital firms.

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Ronald Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Open Source

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that specializes in open-source model hosting, secure inference, and application deployment. The company focuses on creating a seamless environment for developers to build AI workflows within its ecosystem, enabling the development of intelligent and optimized applications. OpenGradient promotes the democratization of model ownership and enhances verifiability while ensuring censorship-resistant access to AI models. Its proprietary technologies, including a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and NeuroML library, support secure AI workflows, integrating features such as statistical analysis and agentic reasoning. Additionally, OpenGradient accelerates open-source innovation by providing a web portal and SDK that allows developers to leverage its AI capabilities without the complexities of blockchain, all while benefiting from the security and composability offered by decentralized infrastructure.

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that specializes in open-source model hosting, secure inference, and application deployment. The company focuses on creating a seamless environment for developers to build AI workflows within its ecosystem, enabling the development of intelligent and optimized applications. OpenGradient promotes the democratization of model ownership and enhances verifiability while ensuring censorship-resistant access to AI models. Its proprietary technologies, including a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and NeuroML library, support secure AI workflows, integrating features such as statistical analysis and agentic reasoning. Additionally, OpenGradient accelerates open-source innovation by providing a web portal and SDK that allows developers to leverage its AI capabilities without the complexities of blockchain, all while benefiting from the security and composability offered by decentralized infrastructure.

Together AI

Series A in 2024
Together is a technology services platform that offers a decentralized cloud specifically for artificial intelligence development. The company focuses on constructing open-source generative AI models and infrastructure, providing tools and resources that enable developers and researchers to train, refine, and deploy these models efficiently. Together's platform emphasizes accessibility and user-friendliness, allowing organizations of various sizes to leverage and enhance AI capabilities. By contributing innovative open-source research, models, and datasets, Together plays a significant role in advancing the field of AI and fostering collaborative development efforts.

Together AI

Seed Round in 2023
Together is a technology services platform that offers a decentralized cloud specifically for artificial intelligence development. The company focuses on constructing open-source generative AI models and infrastructure, providing tools and resources that enable developers and researchers to train, refine, and deploy these models efficiently. Together's platform emphasizes accessibility and user-friendliness, allowing organizations of various sizes to leverage and enhance AI capabilities. By contributing innovative open-source research, models, and datasets, Together plays a significant role in advancing the field of AI and fostering collaborative development efforts.

Hugging Face

Series C in 2022
Hugging Face, established in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in open-source machine learning technologies. It operates a platform that facilitates collaboration on machine learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications. The company aims to democratize machine learning by providing tools and services that support and advance the field, while also offering paid computing and enterprise systems to accelerate development.

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 through the use of pre-built or custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently collect and analyze data from a diverse range of sources. This capability is particularly beneficial for organizations seeking to obtain insights from users employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on improving data accessibility and integration, Airbyte aims to streamline the data management process for businesses across various industries.

Infracost

Seed Round in 2021
Infracost is a company that specializes in providing a cost-estimating platform designed to optimize the use of cloud infrastructure. The company integrates into engineering workflows, offering insights on how code changes will impact cloud costs before deployment. By utilizing an open-source platform, Infracost helps clients understand the financial implications of their cloud resource purchases, enabling more informed decision-making and efficient budget management.

Evidence

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Evidence is a developer of an open-source business intelligence platform that offers a code-based alternative to traditional drag-and-drop BI tools. The platform empowers analysts to create polished data products, reports, and dashboards using SQL and markdown, fostering a trusted and version-controlled reporting system. By utilizing its superset of markdown, Evidence provides a growing library of components, including charts and graphs, which enables SQL analysts to produce reliable and consistent outputs. The emphasis on a markup language instead of a graphical interface allows for greater flexibility and precision in data presentation and analysis.

SST

Seed Round in 2021
SST is a developer-focused company that provides an open-source framework designed to simplify the creation and deployment of serverless applications. The platform enables users to manage pipelines, configure environments, and monitor deployments, facilitating the development of full-stack applications. SST's approach allows developers to make changes and test their Lambda functions in real-time, streamlining the development process. Additionally, the company is recognized for producing a widely used resource for building serverless applications, further establishing its position in the serverless computing landscape.

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 through the use of pre-built or custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently collect and analyze data from a diverse range of sources. This capability is particularly beneficial for organizations seeking to obtain insights from users employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on improving data accessibility and integration, Airbyte aims to streamline the data management process for businesses across various industries.

Pyroscope

Seed Round in 2021
Pyroscope is an open-source platform founded in 2020, based in Oakland, California, that specializes in continuous profiling to monitor and debug applications and APIs. The platform provides tools for code editing, debugging, and sampling profiling, allowing users to identify performance issues and optimize their software effectively. By enabling developers to build custom data storage engines for profiling data, Pyroscope aims to help improve application performance and efficiency. The company focuses on addressing and resolving bottlenecks within code, making it a valuable resource for software engineering teams seeking to enhance their applications' responsiveness and overall performance.

Infracost

Seed Round in 2021
Infracost is a company that specializes in providing a cost-estimating platform designed to optimize the use of cloud infrastructure. The company integrates into engineering workflows, offering insights on how code changes will impact cloud costs before deployment. By utilizing an open-source platform, Infracost helps clients understand the financial implications of their cloud resource purchases, enabling more informed decision-making and efficient budget management.

Splitgraph

Seed Round in 2020
Splitgraph is a developer of integrated data catalog software that enables users to combine various data sources into reproducible data images. The company provides an HTTP API and a PostgreSQL-compatible endpoint, allowing users to run queries on datasets using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. Splitgraph's technology leverages columnar storage optimized for fast aggregation queries, making it suitable for modern web applications. By offering access to a diverse array of live databases and versioned data snapshots, the platform facilitates the creation, sharing, and extension of datasets for data scientists and engineers, promoting a simple and reproducible approach to data management.

Isovalent

Series A in 2020
Isovalent, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions tailored for enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in cloud-native environments. The company's flagship product, Cilium, provides an eBPF-based networking, observability, and security framework explicitly designed for Kubernetes environments, enhancing both performance and scalability. Isovalent's offerings include Cilium Enterprise, which addresses critical workflows related to security automation, forensics, compliance, and role-based access control, while also integrating with existing infrastructure. Additionally, the company provides tools for incident investigation, threat detection, and security monitoring, enabling clients to manage their Kubernetes security and troubleshooting needs effectively. Founded in 2016, Isovalent was originally known as Covalent IO, Inc. and rebranded in 2019. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, with an office in Zurich, Switzerland, Isovalent is recognized for supporting leading global organizations in optimizing their cloud-native infrastructure.

PostHog

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. The company provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed for developers, enabling them to understand product usage, automate event tracking, and collect user data. Its software integrates various functionalities, including product analytics, session recording, funnels, feature flags, and experimentation, allowing engineering teams to analyze user behavior effectively. By auto-capturing product events and providing insights into feature usage, PostHog empowers developers to build applications that are better tailored to their users' needs.

Gel Data

Seed Round in 2019
EdgeDB is a company that specializes in reinventing the relational database stack through its open-source object-relational database platform. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it addresses significant design challenges in existing databases by offering a streamlined data model and a powerful query language. This platform effectively resolves the impedance mismatch by returning structured result objects, allowing developers to construct queries, subqueries, and nested inserts that are fully composable. EdgeDB's technology aims to enhance productivity and efficiency for developers and data engineers, enabling them to build safe and effective software with reduced complexity.

Nebulous

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

Preset

Series A in 2019
Preset Inc., founded in 2018 and based in San Mateo, California, develops an open analytics data platform that leverages Apache Superset™. The platform is designed to enhance productivity for teams by providing an intuitive visual interface that facilitates data exploration and analysis. Preset offers flexible dashboarding capabilities alongside a wide range of visualization types, making it easy for users to communicate and share data-driven insights. Its lightweight and cloud-native architecture supports the workflows of modern organizations, enabling data professionals to make informed decisions efficiently.

Hugging Face

Seed Round in 2018
Hugging Face, established in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in open-source machine learning technologies. It operates a platform that facilitates collaboration on machine learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications. The company aims to democratize machine learning by providing tools and services that support and advance the field, while also offering paid computing and enterprise systems to accelerate development.

Buoyant

Series A in 2017
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.

Hugging Face

Angel Round in 2017
Hugging Face, established in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in open-source machine learning technologies. It operates a platform that facilitates collaboration on machine learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications. The company aims to democratize machine learning by providing tools and services that support and advance the field, while also offering paid computing and enterprise systems to accelerate development.

Metabase

Convertible Note in 2016
Metabase is an open-source analytics and business intelligence application founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to create dashboards and automated reports, facilitating the measurement, analysis, and sharing of data. It is designed to help businesses navigate complex data environments by providing tools to observe trends over time. Additionally, Metabase offers professional services such as managed hosting and support, assisting organizations in implementing customized analytics and business intelligence solutions.

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 core offering, the Styra Declarative Authorization Service, provides context-based admission control to enhance security, streamline compliance, and minimize human errors in cloud-native environments. Styra's platform incorporates features such as policy design, validation, distribution, monitoring, and auditing, allowing users to implement authorization policy-as-code effectively. By utilizing declarative models, the platform helps prevent security drift and errors before deployment. Styra's solutions are compatible with various technologies, including microservices, containers, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive security management for modern application development.

Buoyant

Venture Round in 2015
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.

Cockroach Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

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
PipelineDB, Inc. is a company that specializes in real-time analytics databases designed to process streaming data. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PipelineDB offers an open-source extension to PostgreSQL, enabling continuous SQL queries on time-series data. This innovative platform allows users to submit queries in advance, with results updated incrementally as new data streams in. By facilitating real-time reporting applications, PipelineDB helps clients streamline their data management processes, allowing them to prioritize high-performance time-series data aggregation without the necessity of recording data. As of May 1, 2019, PipelineDB operates as a subsidiary of Confluent, Inc.

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.

Heavybit

Seed Round in 2013
Heavybit, established in 2012 and based in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm specializing in early and later-stage investments in software companies. It focuses on developer tools, cloud-native infrastructure, and open-source sectors. The firm's success lies in its unique approach of partnering with technical founders and leveraging a community of over 600 domain experts to nurture developer-first startups.

Elastic

Series B in 2013
Elastic is a technology company that develops and distributes the Elastic Stack, an open-source suite of products including Elasticsearch, a distributed search and analytics engine, along with Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. The company also offers X-Pack, a commercial plugin for the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a family of SaaS offerings. With over 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's products are used by thousands of organizations worldwide for search, logging, metrics, and security use cases. Backed by prominent investors, Elastic has a distributed workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries.

Discourse

Seed Round in 2012
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform designed to enhance online communication in an evolving digital landscape. By integrating features of mailing lists, discussion forums, and long-form chat rooms, Discourse provides a comprehensive solution for hosting searchable discussions. The platform emphasizes community engagement through tools that support a trust system, notifications, and community moderation. This allows users to connect with one another effectively and fosters meaningful conversations among participants. Discourse aims to redefine online discourse by creating a modern, user-friendly environment that caters to the needs of users in a world dominated by social media and instant communication.

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 specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.

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.

Docker

Series A in 2011
Docker, Inc. is a software company that provides an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications through the use of container technology. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Docker facilitates collaboration among developers and system administrators by allowing applications to be packaged as containers that can run seamlessly across various environments, including local machines, data centers, and public clouds. The platform includes tools for code building, scaling, deployment, and load balancing, as well as a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows. By offering an integrated and secure workflow, Docker enhances the efficiency of application development and accelerates the delivery process from code to deployment, serving millions of developers worldwide.

RethinkDB

Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.

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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