69 Best Open Source Software Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Open Source Software Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 140 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $160.4m.

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

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Snyk logo

Snyk

Snyk is a technology company offering a software development security platform using open-source code.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.6b

Money raised

Elastic logo

Elastic

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$165.0m

Money raised

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Cockroach Labs

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

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Checkmarx logo

Checkmarx

Checkmarx is a company that makes static code analysis software.

1

Funding Rounds

$84.0m

Money raised

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H2O.ai

H2O.ai is the creator of H2O, an open-source machine learning and artificial intelligence platform.

8

Funding Rounds

$251.1m

Money raised

Bugcrowd logo

Bugcrowd

Bugcrowd is an enterprise cloud computing and computer security crowdsourcing company that offers a platform for security testing, web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications.

8

Funding Rounds

$180.7m

Money raised

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Strapi

Strapi is a company offering an open-source headless content management system (CMS).

5

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

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Coder

Coder is an Austin, Texas-based developer of open-source tools and an enterprise platform to configure, secure, and scale development environments.

6

Funding Rounds

$97.1m

Money raised

MariaDB logo

MariaDB

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

6

Funding Rounds

$237.0m

Money raised

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RethinkDB

RethinkDB provides an open-source distributed NoSQL document-oriented database storing JSON documents and scaling data for applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$12.2m

Money raised

ClickHouse logo

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source database management software developed originally by Yandex before being incorporated in 2021 by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky.

2

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

SysDig logo

SysDig

Sysdig is a unified approach to container security, microservices monitoring, and forensics, with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Falco support.

8

Funding Rounds

$729.5m

Money raised

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Sentry (software company)

Sentry is cross-platform application monitoring, with a focus on error reporting.

7

Funding Rounds

$225.5m

Money raised

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Nylas

A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.

5

Funding Rounds

$162.5m

Money raised

Wave Financial logo

Wave Financial

Wave Financial is a Toronto-based financial services and accounting software company.

5

Funding Rounds

$77.8m

Money raised

Redis logo

Redis

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.

10

Funding Rounds

$356.8m

Money raised

Together logo

Together

Together is a San Francisco-based developer of a decentralized cloud for artificial intelligence.

2

Funding Rounds

$122.5m

Money raised

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Jaspersoft

A software platform for data visualization and embedding reports & dashboards.

4

Funding Rounds

$43.5m

Money raised

Veracode logo

Veracode

Veracode Dynamic Analysis provides context around how an application responded to an attack and how it was exploited.

5

Funding Rounds

$74.3m

Money raised

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Rasa (Company)

Rasa is a company that offers a conversational AI platform for customized conversations at scale.

6

Funding Rounds

$80.4m

Money raised

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Rapid7

Rapid7 is a Boston-based cybersecurity company providing security data and analytics solutions.

4

Funding Rounds

$60.2m

Money raised

SmartBear Software logo

SmartBear Software

SmartBear Software is a company developing tools for various software development and API management tasks.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

Teleport logo

Teleport

Teleport, formerly known as Gravitational, is a company developing cloud-based software for automating operations.

5

Funding Rounds

$169.2m

Money raised

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Zero Trafficking

An artificial intelligence company and data automation provider developing solutions for combating transnational cybercrime, government investigations, law enforcement, and human trafficking.

3

Funding Rounds

$925.0k

Money raised

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Stacklok

Stacklok is a Seattle-based software developing offering tools to help developers and open-source software communities keep their software secure and choose safe dependencies.

1

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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WordPress

WordPress is a blogging tool and a content management system created in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. It is owned by WordPress Foundation, a non profit organization formed to support the project.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Wasmer

A technology company providing a way to execute WebAssembly files universally.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

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Alfresco (software)

Alfresco is a software company founded in 2005 by John Newton, John Newton and John Powell.

4

Funding Rounds

$64.5m

Money raised

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Lightning Labs

Lightning Labs is a software development company based in San Francisco developing software for the Lightning Network.

3

Funding Rounds

$82.5m

Money raised

Local Motors logo

Local Motors

Local Motors is an American motor vehicle manufacturing company that is interested in providing low-volume vehicle manufacturing

4

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

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Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo, the leading open source software for visualizing operational data.

7

Funding Rounds

$829.2m

Money raised

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Quip (company)

A company with a collaborative productivity software for mobile and the web. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

2

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

Fossa logo

Fossa

A software company supplying open-source management software and infrastructure for open-source development teams.

3

Funding Rounds

$33.9m

Money raised

Torch (framework) logo

Torch (framework)

An open source machine learning library, a scientific computing framework and a scripting language written in Lua, LuaJIT, C/CUDA

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Sonatype

Sonatype is a Fulton, Maryland-based cybersecurity company helping enterprises get precise intelligence about open source components and software security.

4

Funding Rounds

$120.9m

Money raised

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MyCrypto

MyCrypto is an open source tool that generates Ether wallets for handling ETH and ERC20 tokens.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

Odoo logo

Odoo

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

5

Funding Rounds

$436.6m

Money raised

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Xamarin

Xamarin is a san francisco, california based software company founded in 2011 by Miguel de Icaza.

2

Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

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Gatsby

Gatsby is a framework and Jamstack delivery platform for building websites.

3

Funding Rounds

$48.4m

Money raised

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Jitterbit

Operator of an API integration platform intended to offer an effective approach to business transformation. The company's platform connects SaaS, on-premise and cloud applications and infuses artificial intelligence into any business process, enabling companies to reuse business-critical applications and data to bring new offerings to market.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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WSO2

WSO2 Identity Service stands as one of the few open-source identity management tools providing CIAM capabilities.

3

Funding Rounds

$187.0m

Money raised

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DataNexus

DataNexus is a company founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Ario logo

Ario

Ario is a Norfolk, Virginia-based company founded in 2016 by Jacob Galito.

5

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

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YugaByte

Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.

7

Funding Rounds

$307.0m

Money raised

Kaggle logo

Kaggle

Kaggle is a company involved with machine learning challenges founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.0m

Money raised

Zenoss Core logo

Zenoss Core

Company that develops hybrid it monitoring and analytics software

8

Funding Rounds

$93.9m

Money raised

Seldon logo

Seldon

Seldon is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2002 by Alex Housley.

4

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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PredictionIO

PredictionIO is a company that offers a machine learning open source stack.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

Nginx logo

Nginx

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

1

Funding Rounds

$43.0m

Money raised

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TinyMCE

TinyMCE is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

Black Duck Software logo

Black Duck Software

Black Duck provides an open source software management and security platform for enterprises.

9

Funding Rounds

$71.0m

Money raised

Skymind logo

Skymind

A company building deep learning solutions for fraud detection, image recognition and predictive analytics

2

Funding Rounds

$14.5m

Money raised

Tea logo

Tea

Tea Inc. is a Puerto Rico-based corporation that is building the open source toolkit that makes development possible and builds the internet: it’s “brew2 for web3”.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.9m

Money raised

binpress logo

binpress

binpress is a company founded in 2010 by Eran Galperin.

2

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

Contrast Security (software company) logo

Contrast Security (software company)

Contrast Security is an application Security Platform founded in 2014.

6

Funding Rounds

$334.0m

Money raised

Pachyderm logo

Pachyderm

Pachyderm is a company providing an open source analytics engine that uses Docker containers for distributed computations. It participated in the W15 cohort of Y Combinator.

2

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

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Openbravo

Openbravo is a platform offering open source business management applications founded in 2006 by Name.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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Rapidminer

Company offers a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Webiny logo

Webiny

A software company offering an open-source serverless content management system (CMS).

2

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

PrestaShop logo

PrestaShop

Platform that offers an open-source e-commerce solution to power over 250,000 stores worldwide.

4

Funding Rounds

$14.7m

Money raised

Hazelcast logo

Hazelcast

Hazelcast is a Palo Alto-based software development company and in-memory computing platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$73.5m

Money raised

Qubole logo

Qubole

Qubole is a company founded in 2011.

2

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

Auterion logo

Auterion

The ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and apps within a single easy to use platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Nuxeo logo

Nuxeo

Nuxeo is a software company offering a content services and management platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$36.6m

Money raised

Camunda logo

Camunda

Camunda's platform solution is a Java-based framework that can be used as a standalone process engine server or integrated with custom Java applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$182.3m

Money raised

Tidelift logo

Tidelift

Tidelift is a Boston-based company founded in 2017 by Havoc Pennington, Luis Villa and Donald Fischer.

6

Funding Rounds

$139.0m

Money raised

Eldarion logo

Eldarion

Eldarion is a men in tolkien's legendarium founded in 2009 by James Tauber.

2

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

Appsembler logo

Appsembler

Appsembler is a company founded in 2011 by Nate Aune.

1

Funding Rounds

$118.0k

Money raised

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LearnBoost

LearnBoost is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Guillermo Rauch, Thianh Lu and Rafael Corrales.

1

Funding Rounds

$975.0k

Money raised