Awesome list of VCs investing in commercial open-source startups.
VCs are added to the list if:
- They invested in at least 3 startups where the product is strongly based on an open-source repo
- They are still investing actively
This list is work in progress, so please don't hesitate to contribute and add VCs.
All VCs in the list are sorted by 1) investment stage and 2) name (alphabetical order).
| VC | Stage | Ticket size | HQ | Exemplary investments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boldstart | Pre-Seed/Seed | $0.5-5M | US | Liveblocks, Cloudquery, Darklang |
| Crane | Pre-Seed/Seed | $1-6M | UK | Novu, ZenML, Cerbos, Gitpod |
| 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 |
| Mango Capital | Pre-Seed/Seed | $0.5-2M | US | Hashicorp, Couchbase, InfluxData |
| Lunar Ventures | Pre-Seed/Seed | $0.3-1M | Germany | deepset, WASP, nannyML |
| OSS Capital | Pre-Seed/Seed | $0.1-6M | US | Rocket.chat, Cal.com, Forem, Remix |
| 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 |
| Y Combinator | Pre-Seed/Seed | $0.5M | US | Apollo, Posthog, MindsDB |
| 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 |
| btov | Pre-Seed/Seed, Series A+ | $0.25-20M | Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg | LynxCare, Kubermatic, golayer.io |
| Decibel | Seed, Series A | US | Botpress, Cube, Pachyderm | |
| Nauta Capital | Seed, Series A | $1-5M | UK, Spain | Abiquo, Boxy, Mistho |
| 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 |
| Runa Capital | Seed, Series A+B | $1-10M | US | NGINX, MariaDB, n8n, OpenReplay |
| Bain Capital Ventures | Multi Stage | US | Docker, Redis, Netdata | |
| Index Ventures | Multi Stage | US, UK | Confluent, Starburst, Datadog | |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | Multi Stage | US | Grafana Labs, Hasura, ClickHouse | |
| Sapphire Ventures | Multi Stage | US | influxdata, Mirantis, yugabyteDB | |
| Sequoia Capital | Multi Stage | US | Grafana Labs, R2C, Oso, Stemma | |
| NEA Partners | Multi Stage | US | Metabase, Elastic, TimescaleDB, NGINX |
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