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Top 30 Open Source Startups in 2024

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Have you ever wondered who is on the list of Open Source companies with the highest growth rates?

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1) Platform.sh

Platform.sh

Platform.sh is a complete online platform that enables businesses to create, manage, and expand their websites and apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: France
  • State: Ile-de-France
  • City: Paris
  • Started in: 2010
  • Founders: Damien Tournoud, Fred Plais, Ori Pekelman, Ryan Szrama
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding: $47,300,000
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 8 (Idinvest Partners, Benhamou Global Ventures, Isai, Partech, Alven)

You can find their website here.

2) Odoo

Odoo

Odoo SA is an open-source business application package that is actively programmed, supported, and managed.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Belgium
  • State: Brabant Wallon
  • City: Grand-rosière
  • Started in: 2005
  • Founders: Fabien Pinckaers
  • Number of employees: 1001-5000
  • Funding: $104,121,196
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 5 (Summit Partners, XAnge, S.R.I.W., Sofinnova Partners, Meusinvest (Noshaq))

You can find their website here.

3) PrestaShop

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce platform that is used by over 250,000 retailers around the world.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: France
  • State: Ile-de-France
  • City: Paris
  • Started in: 2007
  • Founders: Bruno Leveque, Igor Schlumberger
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding: $14,733,259
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 13 (XAnge, Serena, Seventure Partners, Cyril Vermeulen, Igor Schlumberger)

You can find their website here.

4) Moodle

Moodle

Moodle is a learning platform that is free and open-source software.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Australia
  • State: Western Australia
  • City: Perth
  • Started in: 2002
  • Founders: Martin Dougiamas
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $6,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 1

You can find their website here.

5) Eficode

Eficode

With operations in Northern and Western Europe, Eficode is a DevOps, software, automation, and design company.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Finland
  • State: Southern Finland
  • City: Helsinki
  • Started in: 2005
  • Founders: Risto Virkkala
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding: € 6,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 1 (Bocap)

You can find their website here.

6) Jina AI

Jina AI

We offer a cloud-native neural search solution that is powered by cutting-edge AI technology.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Germany
  • State: Berlin
  • City: Berlin
  • Started in: 2020
  • Founders: Han Xiao, Xuanbin He
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $7,500,000
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 3 (GGV Capital, Yunqi Partners, SAP.iO)

You can find their website here.

7) German Bionic

German Bionic

Exoskeleton technology is being developed by German Bionic to help people improve their physical abilities.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Germany
  • State: Bayern
  • City: Augsburg
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Armin G. Schmidt, Dr. Peter Heiligensetzer, Michael Halbherr
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $23,500,000
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 8 (Storm Ventures, Atlantic Labs, Benhamou Global Ventures, IT-Farm, Samsung Catalyst Fund)

You can find their website here.

8) Luos

Luos

For efficiently building, testing, and deploying embedded applications, use an open source and real-time architecture.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: France
  • State: Aquitaine
  • City: Bordeaux
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Emanuel Allely, Nicolas Rabault, Simon Baudry
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Funding: € 1,380,000
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 7 (Bpifrance, AQUITI Gestion, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Skalepark, Foreis)

You can find their website here.

9) Yotako

Yotako

Yotako speeds up web and mobile app development by allowing for a seamless transition from design to code.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Luxembourg
  • State: Luxembourg
  • City: Esch-sur-alzette
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Alfonso Garcia Frey, Damien Neuberg
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Funding: € 1,250,000
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 1 (Angelsquare)

You can find their website here.

10) deepset

deepset

Enterprise semantic search to the next level, powered by the latest NLP and open-source technologies

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Germany
  • State: Berlin
  • City: Berlin
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Malte Pietsch, Milos Rusic, Timo Möller
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $1,600,000
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 6 (Acequia Capital (AceCap), Charlie Songhurst, Tiny VC, Jeremy Yap, Lunar Ventures)

You can find their website here.

11) ERPNext

ERPNext

ERPNext is an open source, online ERP solution that incorporates accounting, CRM, inventory, purchasing, human resources, and support, among other features.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • State: Maharashtra
  • City: Mumbai
  • Started in: 2008
  • Founders: Rushabh Mehta
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: ₹100,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 1 (Rainmatter Capital)

You can find their website here.

12) Zilliz

Zilliz

Zilliz is a startup that analyzes unstructured data using AI.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: China
  • State: Shanghai
  • City: Shanghai
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Charles Xie
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $53,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 6 (Trustbridge Partners, Hillhouse Capital Group, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Pavillion Capital)

You can find their website here.

13) EMQ Technologies

EMQ Technologies

In the 5G era, you'll need a messaging and streaming engine to harness the power of your IoT platform and apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: China
  • State: Zhejiang
  • City: Hangzhou
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Feng Lee, Rocky Jin, Susan Gao
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $21,430,649
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 6 (GGV Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group, Oriental Fortune Capital, UnityVC, Vision Knight Capital)

You can find their website here.

14) CODING

CODING

CODING is a corporation that offers free online programming tutorials to people who are new to the field.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: China
  • State: Guangdong
  • City: Shenzhen
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Zhang Hailong
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding: $26,615,024
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 3 (Tencent, IDG Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners)

You can find their website here.

15) Prefect

Prefect

Prefect is a workflow management solution that assists data teams in resolving data flow issues.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: District of Columbia
  • City: Washington D.C.
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Jeremiah Lowin
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $57,594,793
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 10 (Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Nat Friedman, Positive Sum, Sam Teller)

You can find their website here.

16) Mapbox

Mapbox

Mapbox is a platform for mobile and online applications that uses location data.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: District of Columbia
  • City: Washington D.C.
  • Started in: 2010
  • Founders: Bonnie Bogle, Eric Gundersen
  • Number of employees: 501-1000
  • Funding: $334,175,000
  • Funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 10 (SoftBank Vision Fund, Foundry Group, DFJ Growth, DBL Partners, Thrive Capital)

You can find their website here.

17) Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a group of dedicated people who want to change the way software is designed, created, and delivered.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Illinois
  • City: Chicago
  • Started in: 1993
  • Founders: Roy Singham
  • Number of employees: 5001-10000
  • Funding: $748,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 6 (Siemens, Fidelity Management and Research Company, GIC, Cowen Group, Mubadala)

You can find their website here.

18) Anaconda

Anaconda

Anaconda is a data science platform and modern machine learning's foundation.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Texas
  • City: Austin
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Hugo Shi, Peter Wang, Travis Oliphant
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding: $47,099,991
  • Funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 3 (General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, BuildGroup)

You can find their website here.

19) Starburst Data

Starburst Data

Starburst Data is a data access and analytics firm that is currently working on a SQL query engine.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • City: Boston
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Anu Sudarsan, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips, Grzegorz Kokosiński, Justin Borgman, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Karol Sobczak, Martin Traverso, Matt Fuller, Piotr Findeisen, Wojciech Biela
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding: $164,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 4 (Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue)

You can find their website here.

20) Graylog

Graylog

Graylog is a fully integrated log message collection, indexing, and analysis tool.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Texas
  • City: Houston
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Hass Chapman, Lennart Koopmann
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $27,400,000
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 10 (Crosslink Capital, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Headline, Mercury Fund, Harbert Growth Partners)

You can find their website here.

21) YourBase

YourBase

For fast-growing development teams, YourBase accelerates software testing.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Washington
  • City: Seattle
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: John Ewart, Yves Junqueira
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $5,000,000
  • Funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 3 (Lightspeed Venture Partners, Fathom Capital, Unusual Ventures)

You can find their website here.

22) Fishtown Analytics

Fishtown Analytics

Fishtown Analytics is an open-source analytics engineering tool developer.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • City: Philadelphia
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Connor McArthur, Drew Banin, Tristan Handy
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $42,400,000
  • Funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 3 (Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Amplify Partners)

You can find their website here.

23) Acquia

Acquia

Acquia is a company that focuses in cloud-based digital experience management.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • City: Boston
  • Started in: 2007
  • Founders: Dries Buytaert, Jay Batson
  • Number of employees: 1001-5000
  • Funding: $173,500,000
  • Funding rounds: 10
  • Number of investors: 13 (Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates, Amazon, SharesPost Investment Management, Sigma Partners)

You can find their website here.

24) Hull

Hull

Hull assists companies in orchestrating client data and personalizing customer experiences at scale.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: Georgia
  • City: Atlanta
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Jimmy Oliger, Matthieu Chereau, Romain Dardour, Stefan Koenig, Stéphane Bellity
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $5,201,199
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 11 (Techstars, Newfund, Point Nine, Serena, Right Side Capital Management)

You can find their website here.

25) GitLab

GitLab

GitLab is a web-based open source Git repository manager with built-in CI/CD, wiki, and issue tracking functionality.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Dmitriy Zaporozhets, Sytse Sijbrandij
  • Number of employees: 1001-5000
  • Funding: $434,200,000
  • Funding rounds: 10
  • Number of investors: 26 (Goldman Sachs, FundersClub, Khosla Ventures, 500 Startups, GV)

You can find their website here.

26) Docker

Docker

Docker is a free and open platform for developing, delivering, and running distributed apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Solomon Hykes
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $330,855,439
  • Funding rounds: 11
  • Number of investors: 31 (Goldman Sachs, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Y Combinator)

You can find their website here.

27) Stacks

Stacks

Stacks is a bitcoin app development business that creates smart contracts, digital assets, and bitcoin apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: New York
  • City: New York
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shea
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $93,780,000
  • Funding rounds: 13
  • Number of investors: 35 (Blockchain Capital, Alumni Ventures Group, Lux Capital, Digital Currency Group, Foundation Capital)

You can find their website here.

28) Crate.io

Crate.io

Crate.io creates CrateDB, a database designed to scale applications in the age of machine data.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Bernd Dorn, Christian Lutz, Jodok Batlogg
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $27,894,793
  • Funding rounds: 8
  • Number of investors: 15 (Draper Esprit, Speedinvest, Acequia Capital (AceCap), Dawn Capital, Charlie Songhurst)

You can find their website here.

29) Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is a free and open-source software platform for monitoring, visualization, and metric analysis.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: New York
  • City: New York
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Anthony Woods, Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding: $75,230,000
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 2 (Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital)

You can find their website here.

30) PostHog

PostHog

PostHog is an open-source product analytics tool that aids software developers in understanding user behavior.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2020
  • Founders: James Hawkins, Tim Glaser
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $27,150,000
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 5 (GV, Y Combinator, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, 1984 Ventures, Jason Warner)

You can find their website here.

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