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Awesome open-source VCs 💸

Awesome list of VCs investing in commercial open-source startups.

Criteria

VCs are added to the list if:

  1. They invested in at least 3 startups where the product is strongly based on an open-source repo
  2. They are still investing actively

Contributing

This list is work in progress, so please don't hesitate to contribute and add VCs.

VC List

All VCs in the list are sorted by 1) investment stage and 2) name (alphabetical order).

VCs marked with a (*) are dedicated exclusively to commercial open-source and/or have made more than 10 investments in commercial open-source startups.

VC Stage Ticket size HQ Exemplary investments
Abstraction Capital Pre-Seed/Seed $0.1-4M US Buf, Parabeac, Ivy, Wasp
Angel Invest Pre-Seed/Seed $0.1M Germany Rasa, Resoto, Dagshub, Deta, MindsDB
Boldstart Pre-Seed/Seed $0.5-5M US Liveblocks, Cloudquery, Darklang
Crane Pre-Seed/Seed $1-6M UK Novu, ZenML, Cerbos, Gitpod
eCAPITAL Seed, Series A $1-10M DE Tenzir, Exein, Open-Xchange
Elaia Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A,B $0.3-12M France Giskard, Qbeast, Nuclia, CodeNotary, TraefikLabs
Essence VC Pre-Seed/Seed $0.5-5M US ReadySet, Project Discovery, Encore
Firstminute Capital Pre-Seed/Seed $0.25-5M UK Element, n8n, Nuxt.js, Quickwit
Fly Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed $1-3M Germany GitGuardian, Evidently AI, Objectiv
Haystack Pre-Seed/Seed $0.25-1.5M US Hashicorp, RedPanda, Astro
HorizonVC Pre-Seed/Seed $0.3-1.5M US Nango, Shuttle, Caesar Labs
Isai Venture (JP Anciaux) Pre-Seed/Seed $0.25-3.5M FR-US Strapi, Nuxt, Kestra, Numworks
Kima Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed $0.15M France AirByte, Docker, GitGuardian, Liveblocks, Meilisearch
Lombardstreet Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed $0.3-1M US Kong, Sysdig, Hydra
Lunar Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed $0.3-1M Germany deepset, Zama, WASP, NannyML
Mango Capital Pre-Seed/Seed $0.5-2M US Hashicorp, Couchbase, InfluxData
OSS Capital* Pre-Seed/Seed $0.1-6M US Rocket.chat, Cal.com, Forem, Remix, OpenBB, BoxyHQ, MindsDB
Open Core Ventures* Pre-Seed/Seed $0.1-2M US Fleet, FlowForge, Mermaid Chart
Seedcamp Pre-Seed/Seed $0.2-0.5M UK Meilisearch, Medusa, Cerbos
Speedinvest Pre-Seed/Seed $0.7-3M Europe mindsDB, crate.io, Gitpod, Qovery, Wasmer
XAnge Pre-Seed/Seed $0.5-10M France, Germany Odoo, Prestashop, Misakey
Y Combinator* Pre-Seed/Seed $0.5M US Apollo, Posthog, MindsDB
500 Startups Pre-Seed / Seed $0.025-0.5M Global GitLab, mycroft, Predictionio
Basis Set Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A $0.1-4M US Rasa, Orchest, FerretDB
btov Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A+ $0.25-20M Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg QuantumSimulations, Kubermatic, deepcode
Gradient Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A US Orchest, Streamlit, Moov.io
Heavybit Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A $0.5-5M US Apollo, Crunchy Data, Gradle
Hive Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A $0.3-0.5M Taiwan Avesha, Canner, InfuseAI, Instill AI
Unusual Ventures Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A US Sourcegraph, Styra, HeartEx, Noq
Amplify Partners Seed, Series A US dbt, Prisma, Sourcegraph
Costanoa Seed/Series A $2-5M US Auterion, FOSSA, Jitsu
Decibel Seed, Series A US Botpress, Cube, Pachyderm
Felicis Ventures Seed, Series A, B US Meilisearch, n8n.io, Supabase
Innovation Endeavors Seed, Series A $1-12M US Earthly, Kong, ScyllaDB, Cube
MMC Ventures Seed, Series A UK Snowplow, Tyk.io, MindsDB, BoxyHQ
Nauta Capital Seed, Series A $1-5M UK, Spain, Germany Kubermatic, Nhost, Boxy
Nexus Venture Partners* Seed/Series A $0.5-10M India, US Hasura, tileDB, ZincSearch
Norwest Venture Partners Seed/Series A+B+C $0.5-$50M US Dremio, InfluxDB, Uptycs
OpenOcean Series A $2-5M UK, Finland MariaDB, MindsDB, MySQL,
SignalFire Seed, Series A, B $0.25-20M US Plural, Anchore, Crave
True Ventures Seed, Series A $1-10M US Hashicorp, Puppet, Npm
Vertex Ventures US Seed, Series A $0.5-10M US Hasura, Gitpod, Orkes
468 Capital Seed, Series A $1-15M Germany QuestDB, Wasmer, Iterative.ai, Garden.io
Greylock Partners Seed/Series A+B $2-20M US Chronosphere, Docker, Red Hat
Runa Capital Seed, Series A $0.5-15M Luxembourg NGINX, MariaDB, n8n, OpenReplay
Accel Multi Stage UK Rasa, Cloudera, Snyk
a16z* Multi Stage US Sourcegraph, Rasa, dbt
Bain Capital Ventures Multi Stage US Docker, Tecton, Redis, Startree, Cube, Lightning AI, Netdata
Battery* Multi Stage US, UK, IL Databricks, Jfrog, Confluent
Balderton Capital Multi Stage $1m-$50m European founders MySQL, Talend, Ory, Traefik
Bessemer Venture Partners Multi Stage US npm, Prefect, appwrite
Coatue Multi Stage US Grafana Labs, Panther, Starburst
CRV Multi Stage US EDB, Chromatic, RethinkDB
GGV Multi Stage US Hashicorp, Kong, Mindee
Goldman Sachs Multi Stage US WSO2, mongodb, Mirantis
GV Multi Stage US, UK GitLab, Redpanda, Posthog
Index Ventures Multi Stage US, UK Confluent, Starburst, Datadog
Insight Partners* Multi Stage US JFrog, Docker, SonarSource, Metabase, Astronomer
Kleiner Perkins Multi Stage US Prisma, Materialize, Oven
Lightspeed Venture Partners Multi Stage US Grafana Labs, Hasura, ClickHouse
NEA Partners Multi Stage US Metabase, Elastic, TimescaleDB, NGINX
Redpoint Ventures Multi Stage US Hashicorp, Cockroach Labs, Mattermost
Sapphire Ventures Multi Stage US InfluxData, Mirantis, yugabyteDB
Sequoia Capital* Multi Stage US Grafana Labs, R2C, Oso, Stemma
Tiger Global Multi Stage US appwrite, Kong, Redis
Venrock Multi Stage US Astronomer, Meltano, dGraph
Altimeter Late Stage US Confluent, GitLab, dbt

Angel List

We'll add a list with angels soon. If you're an angel investing in open-source (with at least 3 investments), feel free to open an issue.

A list of active devtool angels (not specifically focused on open-source) can be found here.

Any questions or suggestions? Feel free to DM the maintainer @jonathimer