Awesome open-source VCs 💸
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).
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
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
Lunar Ventures
Pre-Seed/Seed
$0.3-1M
Germany
deepset , 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
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
Y Combinator *
Pre-Seed/Seed
$0.5M
US
Apollo , Posthog , MindsDB
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
Decibel
Seed, Series A
US
Botpress , Cube , Pachyderm
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
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
Runa Capital
Seed, Series A+B
$1-10M
US
NGINX , MariaDB , n8n , OpenReplay
a16z *
Multi Stage
US
Sourcegraph , Rasa , dbt
Bain Capital Ventures
Multi Stage
US
Docker , Tecton , Redis , Startree , Cube , Lightning AI , Netdata
Index Ventures
Multi Stage
US, UK
Confluent , Starburst , Datadog
Insight Partners *
Multi Stage
US
JFrog , Docker , SonarSource , Metabase
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
Sapphire Ventures
Multi Stage
US
InfluxData , Mirantis , yugabyteDB
Sequoia Capital *
Multi Stage
US
Grafana Labs , R2C , Oso , Stemma
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