Open Core Ventures

Open Core Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on creating and nurturing new companies centered on open source software projects, providing early-stage support to help bring open source innovations to market.

Betty Ma

COO

6 past transactions

Mermaid Char

Seed Round in 2024
Mermaid Chart, founded by Knut Sveidqvist and Open Core Ventures, emerged from the Mermaid open-source project. Lead developers from Mermaid have joined, strengthening the project's connection. Mermaid Chart bolsters open-source Mermaid development, enabling professional usage, while maintaining open-source functionality. It supports Mermaid significantly, but also offers commercial services to fund project growth and expand the developer team.

Mermaid Chart

Seed Round in 2024
Mermaid Chart is a developer of a digital visualization tool aimed at enhancing the diagramming capabilities of enterprise teams. The company focuses on simplifying the creation of complex diagrams by utilizing markdown-like text definitions, allowing users to generate and modify visual representations without the cumbersome design layers typically associated with traditional diagramming software. This innovative approach promotes collaboration among team members, enabling them to effectively convey complex information through dynamic, text-based diagrams. By prioritizing ease of use and functionality, Mermaid Chart seeks to transform how enterprise teams visualize and communicate their ideas.

Kedify

Seed Round in 2023
Kedify is a commercial provider of autoscaling software specifically designed for Kubernetes applications. As the commercial version of KEDA, the leading open-source tool in this domain, Kedify caters to a diverse clientele, including prominent companies such as Fedex, Reddit, and Blackrock. The company focuses on reducing operational costs and ensuring efficient performance through its software solutions. In addition to its core product, Kedify offers expert guidance in deployment, management, and troubleshooting, facilitating seamless integration for users. This support helps organizations align the autoscaling capabilities with their unique enterprise requirements, thereby enhancing the overall value of the autoscale ecosystem.

FlowForge

Seed Round in 2022
FlowForge is an open-source, low-code development platform for enterprise-scale integration and automation, built on Node-RED. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, FlowForge provides a platform for organizations to deliver applications via a collaborative, secure workflow environment that supports multi-tenancy, enterprise authentication integration, auditing, compliance, observability, and is designed around version control and CI systems.

Mermaid Char

Seed Round in 2022
Mermaid Chart, founded by Knut Sveidqvist and Open Core Ventures, emerged from the Mermaid open-source project. Lead developers from Mermaid have joined, strengthening the project's connection. Mermaid Chart bolsters open-source Mermaid development, enabling professional usage, while maintaining open-source functionality. It supports Mermaid significantly, but also offers commercial services to fund project growth and expand the developer team.

Mermaid Chart

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mermaid Chart is a developer of a digital visualization tool aimed at enhancing the diagramming capabilities of enterprise teams. The company focuses on simplifying the creation of complex diagrams by utilizing markdown-like text definitions, allowing users to generate and modify visual representations without the cumbersome design layers typically associated with traditional diagramming software. This innovative approach promotes collaboration among team members, enabling them to effectively convey complex information through dynamic, text-based diagrams. By prioritizing ease of use and functionality, Mermaid Chart seeks to transform how enterprise teams visualize and communicate their ideas.
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