OpenGradient
Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that hosts open-source models, enables secure inference, and supports deployment of AI applications. It provides native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure execution to accelerate open-source AI while improving verifiability and enabling censorship-resistant model access. The platform relies on a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and a proprietary library to power secure AI workflows, including inference, agentic reasoning, and analysis. A web portal and SDK let developers leverage the AI stack without blockchain complexity, helping them build secure, auditable workflows. OpenGradient aims to democratize model ownership and promote transparency in AI by enabling scalable, verifiable computing across open-source models.
OpenGradient
Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that hosts open-source models, enables secure inference, and supports deployment of AI applications. It provides native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure execution to accelerate open-source AI while improving verifiability and enabling censorship-resistant model access. The platform relies on a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and a proprietary library to power secure AI workflows, including inference, agentic reasoning, and analysis. A web portal and SDK let developers leverage the AI stack without blockchain complexity, helping them build secure, auditable workflows. OpenGradient aims to democratize model ownership and promote transparency in AI by enabling scalable, verifiable computing across open-source models.
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
Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a New York-based company that aims to democratize good machine learning. It provides an open-source platform for collaborating on machine-learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications.
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that automates the movement of data from applications, APIs, and databases into data warehouses. It offers a library of pre-built connectors and allows custom connector development, enabling organizations to build end-to-end data pipelines quickly. The platform supports integration with over a thousand data sources and processes large volumes of data daily, helping businesses consolidate data for analytics and reporting. It is designed to be developer-friendly and scalable, facilitating real-time data synchronization and ensuring data consistency across systems.
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
Evidences is an open-source business intelligence platform that enables developers to create polished data products using SQL and markdown, eliminating the need for drag-and-drop interfaces. It offers version control, high-performance data infrastructure, enterprise security, automatic scaling, and a growing component library for charts and graphs.
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 is an open-source data integration platform that automates the movement of data from applications, APIs, and databases into data warehouses. It offers a library of pre-built connectors and allows custom connector development, enabling organizations to build end-to-end data pipelines quickly. The platform supports integration with over a thousand data sources and processes large volumes of data daily, helping businesses consolidate data for analytics and reporting. It is designed to be developer-friendly and scalable, facilitating real-time data synchronization and ensuring data consistency across systems.
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 develops open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Its flagship product, Cilium, enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in modern environments. Isovalent serves leading global organizations and has offices in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.
PostHog
Pre Seed Round in 2020
PostHog is an open‑source product analytics platform that enables developers to understand how users interact with their applications. The platform automatically captures events, provides visual analytics, filtering, group analysis, session recordings, funnels, feature flags, and experimentation tools. It integrates with monitoring services and supports testing and deployment of new features. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in San Francisco.
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 develops an open analytics platform built on Apache Superset™. It empowers users to explore, analyze, and communicate data-driven insights through intuitive visual interfaces and flexible dashboarding capabilities.
Hugging Face
Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a New York-based company that aims to democratize good machine learning. It provides an open-source platform for collaborating on machine-learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications.
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
Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a New York-based company that aims to democratize good machine learning. It provides an open-source platform for collaborating on machine-learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications.
Metabase
Convertible Note in 2016
Founded in 2014, Metabase is an open-source analytics and business intelligence application that enables users to create dashboards and share insights. Its platform offers professional services such as managed hosting and custom implementation assistance.
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 develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
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 develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
Heavybit
Seed Round in 2013
Heavybit is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2012. It specializes in software and enterprise infrastructure, supporting technical startups from inception and helping them turn code into scalable businesses. The firm emphasizes hands-on guidance and a community-driven approach, leveraging a network of technical founders and over 600 domain experts to help portfolio companies grow. Core focus areas include developer tooling such as DevSecOps, feature flagging, and AI-powered development tools, with the goal of building durable software platforms and ecosystems around developers.
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 provides an open-source GraphQL platform and commercial technologies that help teams build, test, and ship APIs across applications. The platform reduces boilerplate code, accelerates delivery by enabling frontend and mobile features to stay in sync with backend services, and supports scalable API development. Its Apollo GraphOS suite includes a self-service supergraph that links multiple backend services into a unified, scalable API, facilitating faster experimentation and deployment. The company serves major brands such as Netflix, Snap, and The New York Times, handling more than five trillion requests in 2023 and enabling personalized, omnichannel experiences. Based in San Francisco, Apollo GraphQL is used by developers to streamline API workflows across organizations.
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 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 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.
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.