18 Best Open Core Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Open Core Startups

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There are 18 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $334.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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5

Funding Rounds

$349.2m

Money raised

HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

4

Funding Rounds

$165.0m

Money raised

Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

6

Funding Rounds

$237.0m

Money raised

Database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of mysql

8

Funding Rounds

$362.8m

Money raised

Docker provides an open-source project for deploying applications inside software containers.

5

Funding Rounds

$167.6m

Money raised

Kong (formerly Mashape) is a San Francisco-based company that offers open source microservice API gateway.

10

Funding Rounds

$356.8m

Money raised

Redis is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an open-source, in-memory database platform, the open-source Redis, and provides enterprise software as a cloud service built upon the product.

6

Funding Rounds

$236.3m

Money raised

DataStax delivers a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra

5

Funding Rounds

$61.6m

Money raised

Talend is a software vendor specializing in big data integration founded by Bertrand Diard.

2

Funding Rounds

$122.0m

Money raised

CARTO is a developer of a platform turning spatial data into delivery routes, behavioral marketing, and strategic development.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Swim is an edge-based software provider offering real-time analytics and machine learning for enterprise, equipment manufacturers, smart cities, and IoT businesses.

5

Funding Rounds

$436.6m

Money raised

Open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider.

3

Funding Rounds

$375.0m

Money raised

D2iQ is a San Francisco-based company founded by Florian Liebert.

1

Funding Rounds

$43.0m

Money raised

Open source web server and a reverse proxy server; acquired by F5.

2

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Mattermost is an enterprise software company.

3

Funding Rounds

$454.0m

Money raised

Mapbox is an American geospatial technology company that produces tools for map designers and application developers.

3

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

Tyk is a London-based API management company.

1

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

Processmaker is a Durham, North Carolina-based software company developing business process automation tools and founded in 2000.

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