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.

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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
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
Kima Ventures	Pre-Seed/Seed	$0.15M	France	AirByte, Docker, GitGuardian, Liveblocks, Meilisearch
Fly Ventures	Pre-Seed/Seed	$1-3M	Germany	GitGuardian, Evidently AI, Objectiv
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+B	$1-10M	US	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.

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