I am a General Partner at venture firm Runa Capital, where I focus on investing in early-stage startups building OSS, dev-focused, and infrastructure software. My favorite areas of next-gen infra include data, AI/ML, cloud, security, observability, and enterprise suites (like CRM and ERP). Some open source startups we invested in:

• Nginx, the most popular web server in the world (exited in 2019)
• MariaDB, relational database founded by MySQL's creator (exited in 2024)
• Twenty, next-gen CRM platform, open-source alternative to Salesforce (thesis)
• Keep, next-gen alert management and AIOps platform for enterprises (thesis)
• OpenReplay, session replay and product analytics suite
• Pandas AI, platform to query your data in natural language
• Evidently AI, the most popular observability framework for ML models

Since 2020, I have been publishing the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index, where we highlight the top 20 trending open source startups (by GitHub star growth) every quarter. Also, we created and have been maintaining an awesome list of open-source alternatives to the most popular SaaS

As a VC and a philanthropist, I am strongly interested in Open Source, and I take it seriously.