Graphite is an open-source tool designed for engineers to write and review smaller pull requests efficiently. It enables teams to create, approve, and ship small, incremental changes seamlessly.
Kong Inc., established in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in API management. It operates an API marketplace, facilitating the distribution, monetization, and management of cloud-based services. Kong's key products include Kong, an open-source API management layer; Kong Enterprise Edition, a scalable microservices API platform; and Galileo, an analytics tool for API and microservice monitoring. Additionally, Kong offers API Documentation and Developer Portal, aiding developers in creating and managing API projects securely. The company serves a global client base comprising consumers, providers, developers, and IT teams, promoting productivity, security, and performance in API development.
Socket is a security company that protects critical applications from software supply chain attacks by detecting and blocking threats before they strike. Founded by open source maintainers with a large user base, it emphasizes defending the open source ecosystem. Its cybersecurity platform provides visibility and defense-in-depth to secure software applications and services, with a focus on dependencies in JavaScript and Python, helping organizations mitigate malware risks and reduce exposure to supply chain compromises.
Rasa Technologies GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing machine learning tools for creating conversational software, including chatbots and virtual assistants. The company offers a suite of products, notably Rasa Open Source, a widely adopted framework for building text- and voice-based AI assistants, and Rasa X, a toolset designed to enhance and share these assistants. Rasa Enterprise provides an enterprise-grade solution for developing contextual assistants at scale. Rasa's platform is utilized across various industries, including healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications, and travel, focusing on applications such as lead generation, internal process automation, and customer service. The company is known for its commitment to data privacy and security, catering to both startups and large enterprises.
Tabular Technologies is focused on creating an independent data automation platform that leverages the open-source standard for large analytic datasets, specifically Apache Iceberg. The company aims to simplify the use of this open-source table format, allowing data scientists to navigate complex data environments with ease. Its platform supports cloud object storage and multiple-computer frameworks, ensuring consistency and interoperability across various data applications. By prioritizing user-friendliness, Tabular Technologies enables organizations to harness the full potential of their data without being overwhelmed by technical challenges.
Civitai
Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2023, Civitai is a Boise-based platform dedicated to fostering collaboration among users of open-source AI models like Stable Diffusion. It offers customizable image and video generative AI models, enabling creators to generate unique content and share their work within a dynamic community.
Forward Networks
Series D in 2023
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
Isovalent
Series B in 2022
Isovalent develops open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Its flagship product, Cilium, enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in modern environments. Isovalent serves leading global organizations and has offices in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.
Graphite is an open-source tool designed for engineers to write and review smaller pull requests efficiently. It enables teams to create, approve, and ship small, incremental changes seamlessly.
Optimism is an Ethereum-based decentralized infrastructure platform founded in 2019. It enables instant transactions and scalable smart contracts through its layer 2 scaling solution, helping developers build on the blockchain.
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
PlanetScale
Series C in 2021
PlanetScale designs and develops an online database platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for protecting, accessing, and deriving insights from their data. It offers a Database-as-a-service platform, cluster manager software licenses, open-source Vitess support, training solutions, and PlanetScaleDB for vendor lock prevention, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, scaling, and control plane deployment.
Tabular Technologies is focused on creating an independent data automation platform that leverages the open-source standard for large analytic datasets, specifically Apache Iceberg. The company aims to simplify the use of this open-source table format, allowing data scientists to navigate complex data environments with ease. Its platform supports cloud object storage and multiple-computer frameworks, ensuring consistency and interoperability across various data applications. By prioritizing user-friendliness, Tabular Technologies enables organizations to harness the full potential of their data without being overwhelmed by technical challenges.
Preset develops an open analytics platform built on Apache Superset™. It empowers users to explore, analyze, and communicate data-driven insights through intuitive visual interfaces and flexible dashboarding capabilities.
Apollo GraphQL
Series D in 2021
Apollo GraphQL provides an open-source GraphQL platform and commercial technologies that help teams build, test, and ship APIs across applications. The platform reduces boilerplate code, accelerates delivery by enabling frontend and mobile features to stay in sync with backend services, and supports scalable API development. Its Apollo GraphOS suite includes a self-service supergraph that links multiple backend services into a unified, scalable API, facilitating faster experimentation and deployment. The company serves major brands such as Netflix, Snap, and The New York Times, handling more than five trillion requests in 2023 and enabling personalized, omnichannel experiences. Based in San Francisco, Apollo GraphQL is used by developers to streamline API workflows across organizations.
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.
PlanetScale
Series B in 2021
PlanetScale designs and develops an online database platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for protecting, accessing, and deriving insights from their data. It offers a Database-as-a-service platform, cluster manager software licenses, open-source Vitess support, training solutions, and PlanetScaleDB for vendor lock prevention, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, scaling, and control plane deployment.
Orbit is a platform that facilitates community-driven growth for businesses by tracking and measuring community activity across various tools and channels.
Optimism is an Ethereum-based decentralized infrastructure platform founded in 2019. It enables instant transactions and scalable smart contracts through its layer 2 scaling solution, helping developers build on the blockchain.
Kong Inc., established in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in API management. It operates an API marketplace, facilitating the distribution, monetization, and management of cloud-based services. Kong's key products include Kong, an open-source API management layer; Kong Enterprise Edition, a scalable microservices API platform; and Galileo, an analytics tool for API and microservice monitoring. Additionally, Kong offers API Documentation and Developer Portal, aiding developers in creating and managing API projects securely. The company serves a global client base comprising consumers, providers, developers, and IT teams, promoting productivity, security, and performance in API development.
Orbit is a platform that facilitates community-driven growth for businesses by tracking and measuring community activity across various tools and channels.
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.
Isovalent
Series A in 2020
Isovalent develops open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Its flagship product, Cilium, enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in modern environments. Isovalent serves leading global organizations and has offices in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
Rasa Technologies GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing machine learning tools for creating conversational software, including chatbots and virtual assistants. The company offers a suite of products, notably Rasa Open Source, a widely adopted framework for building text- and voice-based AI assistants, and Rasa X, a toolset designed to enhance and share these assistants. Rasa Enterprise provides an enterprise-grade solution for developing contextual assistants at scale. Rasa's platform is utilized across various industries, including healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications, and travel, focusing on applications such as lead generation, internal process automation, and customer service. The company is known for its commitment to data privacy and security, catering to both startups and large enterprises.
DigitalOcean
Series C in 2020
Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure for software developers. It offers compute, storage, networking products, databases, developer tools, and management tools to deploy and scale applications. Key products include Droplets (Linux-based VMs), Kubernetes, Databases, and Spaces (S3-compatible object storage). The company is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bengaluru, India.
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.
Preset
Funding Round in 2019
Preset develops an open analytics platform built on Apache Superset™. It empowers users to explore, analyze, and communicate data-driven insights through intuitive visual interfaces and flexible dashboarding capabilities.
Forward Networks
Series C in 2019
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
OpenGov is a provider of cloud-based software for public sector operations, focusing on budgeting, procurement, performance management, and transparency. Its platform combines budgeting and financial management tools with analytics and visualization capabilities, enabling decision makers to streamline the annual budget process, benchmark against other governments, and share insights. It offers ERP-like modules for local governments to improve financial management, and OpenGov Transparency to publish financial data for public accountability. The company also provides open data solutions using CKAN for government data portals and OpenGov Comparisons for benchmarking across the OpenGov Network. Additional capabilities cover automated procurement, streamlined permitting and licensing workflows, asset management, and community engagement to improve service delivery. OpenGov serves finance directors, administrators, and elected officials, and is based in Redwood City, California.
Apollo GraphQL
Series C in 2019
Apollo GraphQL provides an open-source GraphQL platform and commercial technologies that help teams build, test, and ship APIs across applications. The platform reduces boilerplate code, accelerates delivery by enabling frontend and mobile features to stay in sync with backend services, and supports scalable API development. Its Apollo GraphOS suite includes a self-service supergraph that links multiple backend services into a unified, scalable API, facilitating faster experimentation and deployment. The company serves major brands such as Netflix, Snap, and The New York Times, handling more than five trillion requests in 2023 and enabling personalized, omnichannel experiences. Based in San Francisco, Apollo GraphQL is used by developers to streamline API workflows across organizations.
PlanetScale
Series A in 2019
PlanetScale designs and develops an online database platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for protecting, accessing, and deriving insights from their data. It offers a Database-as-a-service platform, cluster manager software licenses, open-source Vitess support, training solutions, and PlanetScaleDB for vendor lock prevention, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, scaling, and control plane deployment.
Kong Inc., established in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in API management. It operates an API marketplace, facilitating the distribution, monetization, and management of cloud-based services. Kong's key products include Kong, an open-source API management layer; Kong Enterprise Edition, a scalable microservices API platform; and Galileo, an analytics tool for API and microservice monitoring. Additionally, Kong offers API Documentation and Developer Portal, aiding developers in creating and managing API projects securely. The company serves a global client base comprising consumers, providers, developers, and IT teams, promoting productivity, security, and performance in API development.
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
Orchid Labs
Venture Round in 2018
Orchid Labs is an open-source initiative focused on combating internet surveillance and censorship. Founded in 2017 by a team including Dr. Steven Waterhouse and Jay Freeman, the company develops a decentralized nanopayment platform that enhances internet accessibility. Its innovative approach employs an overlay network built on the existing internet, utilizing a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange. This technology empowers users to protect their personal data while facilitating secure communication, collaboration, and information access. Overall, Orchid Labs aims to create a more inclusive and liberated online environment for all users.
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.
Cumulus Networks
Series D in 2018
Cumulus Networks, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing Linux-based operating systems for networking hardware applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, the company aims to simplify data center operations through its innovative solutions. Cumulus Linux, its flagship product, facilitates the disaggregation of top-of-rack data center switching, while Cumulus VX serves as a virtual appliance for testing its technology in various environments. Additionally, Cumulus Networks offers the Rack Management Platform for out-of-band management and NetQ, a telemetry-based system for fabric validation. The company provides a range of networking solutions, including cloud orchestration, data center automation, and network virtualization, catering to diverse customers from large web-scale operations to small businesses across multiple industries. As of June 2020, Cumulus Networks operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.
Forward Networks
Series B in 2017
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
Protocol Labs
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Protocol Labs is a lab dedicated to developing and deploying network protocols. It focuses on creating software systems that address significant challenges through innovative technology, user-centered design, and open-source methodologies.
OpenGov is a provider of cloud-based software for public sector operations, focusing on budgeting, procurement, performance management, and transparency. Its platform combines budgeting and financial management tools with analytics and visualization capabilities, enabling decision makers to streamline the annual budget process, benchmark against other governments, and share insights. It offers ERP-like modules for local governments to improve financial management, and OpenGov Transparency to publish financial data for public accountability. The company also provides open data solutions using CKAN for government data portals and OpenGov Comparisons for benchmarking across the OpenGov Network. Additional capabilities cover automated procurement, streamlined permitting and licensing workflows, asset management, and community engagement to improve service delivery. OpenGov serves finance directors, administrators, and elected officials, and is based in Redwood City, California.
Kong Inc., established in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in API management. It operates an API marketplace, facilitating the distribution, monetization, and management of cloud-based services. Kong's key products include Kong, an open-source API management layer; Kong Enterprise Edition, a scalable microservices API platform; and Galileo, an analytics tool for API and microservice monitoring. Additionally, Kong offers API Documentation and Developer Portal, aiding developers in creating and managing API projects securely. The company serves a global client base comprising consumers, providers, developers, and IT teams, promoting productivity, security, and performance in API development.
OpenBazaar
Venture Round in 2016
OpenBazaar is a new way to trade online. By running a program on your computer, you can connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any organization at all. This means there are no mandatory fees to pay, and that your trade is censorship-resistant.
OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin, a digital currency that is also cheap to use, decentralized, and censorship-resistant.
This project is open source, which means the code is publicly available, can be reviewed, and anyone can join the project and suggest changes.
comma.ai
Seed Round in 2016
Comma.ai, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing and marketing self-driving kits designed to enable vehicles to operate autonomously. Founded by George Hotz, Comma.ai aims to demonstrate that affordable driverless technology can be achieved using readily available components and existing vehicles. The company has also contributed to the field by open-sourcing a dataset that includes 7.25 hours of highway driving, enhancing research and development in autonomous driving technologies.
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
Cumulus Networks
Series C in 2016
Cumulus Networks, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing Linux-based operating systems for networking hardware applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, the company aims to simplify data center operations through its innovative solutions. Cumulus Linux, its flagship product, facilitates the disaggregation of top-of-rack data center switching, while Cumulus VX serves as a virtual appliance for testing its technology in various environments. Additionally, Cumulus Networks offers the Rack Management Platform for out-of-band management and NetQ, a telemetry-based system for fabric validation. The company provides a range of networking solutions, including cloud orchestration, data center automation, and network virtualization, catering to diverse customers from large web-scale operations to small businesses across multiple industries. As of June 2020, Cumulus Networks operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.
OpenGov is a provider of cloud-based software for public sector operations, focusing on budgeting, procurement, performance management, and transparency. Its platform combines budgeting and financial management tools with analytics and visualization capabilities, enabling decision makers to streamline the annual budget process, benchmark against other governments, and share insights. It offers ERP-like modules for local governments to improve financial management, and OpenGov Transparency to publish financial data for public accountability. The company also provides open data solutions using CKAN for government data portals and OpenGov Comparisons for benchmarking across the OpenGov Network. Additional capabilities cover automated procurement, streamlined permitting and licensing workflows, asset management, and community engagement to improve service delivery. OpenGov serves finance directors, administrators, and elected officials, and is based in Redwood City, California.
Keybase, Inc. is a New York-based company that provides a secure communications platform through its website and open-source command line program. Founded in 2015, Keybase specializes in web verification and encryption software solutions tailored for social media users. Its platform allows users to easily encrypt, decrypt, and share messages using a robust encryption standard, with public keys linked to user accounts on Keybase as well as Twitter and GitHub. Keybase's offerings include end-to-end encrypted chat, file sharing, and cloud storage across multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows. The company operates as a subsidiary of Zoom Video Communications, enhancing its capabilities in the realm of secure digital communication.
DigitalOcean
Series B in 2015
Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure for software developers. It offers compute, storage, networking products, databases, developer tools, and management tools to deploy and scale applications. Key products include Droplets (Linux-based VMs), Kubernetes, Databases, and Spaces (S3-compatible object storage). The company is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bengaluru, India.
OpenBazaar
Seed Round in 2015
OpenBazaar is a new way to trade online. By running a program on your computer, you can connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any organization at all. This means there are no mandatory fees to pay, and that your trade is censorship-resistant.
OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin, a digital currency that is also cheap to use, decentralized, and censorship-resistant.
This project is open source, which means the code is publicly available, can be reviewed, and anyone can join the project and suggest changes.
Meteor Software
Series B in 2015
Meteor Development Group Inc. operates Meteor, an open-source JavaScript application platform designed for software developers to create web and mobile applications. The platform provides data hosting capabilities, allowing companies to develop real-time applications utilizing modern API technologies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to simplify the application development process, making it more accessible to a broader audience. Meteor's commitment to enhancing developer experience is reflected in its flexible and remote-first work culture, fostering a collaborative environment among its global team.
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
Forward Networks
Series A in 2014
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
Trans*H4CK is an organization dedicated to empowering the transgender community through technology. Established in 2013, it addresses the social and economic challenges faced by transgender, non-binary, and agender individuals by developing open-source tech products that enhance economic opportunities, access to social services, and promote gender safety. Trans*H4CK organizes multi-city hackathons that unite transgender individuals and their allies to innovate and create technology solutions tailored for their community. The organization has successfully engaged over 600 transgender developers, designers, and aspiring coders at these events, resulting in the development of mobile applications that serve the needs of the trans and gender non-conforming population across the country. Furthermore, Trans*H4CK fosters visibility by sharing the stories of leading transgender figures in tech and entrepreneurship through its speaker series, contributing to a more inclusive tech landscape.
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
OpenGov is a provider of cloud-based software for public sector operations, focusing on budgeting, procurement, performance management, and transparency. Its platform combines budgeting and financial management tools with analytics and visualization capabilities, enabling decision makers to streamline the annual budget process, benchmark against other governments, and share insights. It offers ERP-like modules for local governments to improve financial management, and OpenGov Transparency to publish financial data for public accountability. The company also provides open data solutions using CKAN for government data portals and OpenGov Comparisons for benchmarking across the OpenGov Network. Additional capabilities cover automated procurement, streamlined permitting and licensing workflows, asset management, and community engagement to improve service delivery. OpenGov serves finance directors, administrators, and elected officials, and is based in Redwood City, California.
DigitalOcean
Series A in 2014
Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure for software developers. It offers compute, storage, networking products, databases, developer tools, and management tools to deploy and scale applications. Key products include Droplets (Linux-based VMs), Kubernetes, Databases, and Spaces (S3-compatible object storage). The company is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bengaluru, India.
Cumulus Networks
Series B in 2014
Cumulus Networks, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing Linux-based operating systems for networking hardware applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, the company aims to simplify data center operations through its innovative solutions. Cumulus Linux, its flagship product, facilitates the disaggregation of top-of-rack data center switching, while Cumulus VX serves as a virtual appliance for testing its technology in various environments. Additionally, Cumulus Networks offers the Rack Management Platform for out-of-band management and NetQ, a telemetry-based system for fabric validation. The company provides a range of networking solutions, including cloud orchestration, data center automation, and network virtualization, catering to diverse customers from large web-scale operations to small businesses across multiple industries. As of June 2020, Cumulus Networks operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.
CoreOS, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in open source projects for Linux containers and Internet security software solutions. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS is recognized for its contributions to the Kubernetes community. The company offers Tectonic, an enterprise-ready platform that enhances Kubernetes with features for secure container orchestration, and Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers. CoreOS also provides CoreUpdate, a tool for managing application updates, and maintains various open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt. These solutions address key challenges related to downtime, security, and resilience, enabling organizations to run their applications reliably in diverse environments. In 2018, CoreOS became a subsidiary of Red Hat, further bolstering its position in the cloud infrastructure landscape.
Cumulus Networks
Series A in 2013
Cumulus Networks, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing Linux-based operating systems for networking hardware applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, the company aims to simplify data center operations through its innovative solutions. Cumulus Linux, its flagship product, facilitates the disaggregation of top-of-rack data center switching, while Cumulus VX serves as a virtual appliance for testing its technology in various environments. Additionally, Cumulus Networks offers the Rack Management Platform for out-of-band management and NetQ, a telemetry-based system for fabric validation. The company provides a range of networking solutions, including cloud orchestration, data center automation, and network virtualization, catering to diverse customers from large web-scale operations to small businesses across multiple industries. As of June 2020, Cumulus Networks operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
Cask is an open-source software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in simplifying the construction and operation of big data solutions. The company offers a unified integration platform that significantly accelerates the time required to deploy data applications and data lakes, reducing it by up to 80%. Cask's platform combines data integration and application development capabilities, facilitating rapid development in both public and private cloud environments. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.
Meteor Software
Series A in 2012
Meteor Development Group Inc. operates Meteor, an open-source JavaScript application platform designed for software developers to create web and mobile applications. The platform provides data hosting capabilities, allowing companies to develop real-time applications utilizing modern API technologies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to simplify the application development process, making it more accessible to a broader audience. Meteor's commitment to enhancing developer experience is reflected in its flexible and remote-first work culture, fostering a collaborative environment among its global team.
Clover
Venture Round in 2012
Clover is a developer of an open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform designed to facilitate payment processing for businesses. By collaborating with prominent payment processors, developers, and hardware manufacturers, Clover aims to bring innovative point-of-sale products to market. Utilizing Android as its client platform allows the company to leverage both affordable off-the-shelf devices and specialized hardware, ensuring flexibility and accessibility for its users. Clover's online payment network enhances transaction capabilities in various settings, promoting seamless interactions between customers and merchants.
Cask is an open-source software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in simplifying the construction and operation of big data solutions. The company offers a unified integration platform that significantly accelerates the time required to deploy data applications and data lakes, reducing it by up to 80%. Cask's platform combines data integration and application development capabilities, facilitating rapid development in both public and private cloud environments. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.
Flotype
Seed Round in 2012
Flotype Inc. is a venture-backed company building a suite of enterprise technology for real-time messaging. Flotype takes a unique approach by building developer-friendly technologies focused on ease-of-use and simplicity, while still exceeding enterprise-grade performance expectations.
Flotype licenses enterprise-grade middleware, Bridge, to customers ranging from social web and software enterprises to financial and fleet management groups.
Other offerings include NowJS, a free, open-source framework, for developers seeking real-time interactivity on Node.js and JavaScript browsers. NowCluster is available for companies seeking scalability and reliability for NowJS applications.
Established in 2010 and based in Berkeley, California, Flotype is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, InterWest Partners, and Salesforce.com.
RethinkDB
Series A in 2011
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.
Clover is a developer of an open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform designed to facilitate payment processing for businesses. By collaborating with prominent payment processors, developers, and hardware manufacturers, Clover aims to bring innovative point-of-sale products to market. Utilizing Android as its client platform allows the company to leverage both affordable off-the-shelf devices and specialized hardware, ensuring flexibility and accessibility for its users. Clover's online payment network enhances transaction capabilities in various settings, promoting seamless interactions between customers and merchants.
RethinkDB
Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.