SV Angel

SV Angel, established in 2009 and based in San Francisco, is an investment firm that supports early-stage entrepreneurs. They provide business development, financing, M&A, and strategic advice to help startups navigate key inflection points and accelerate growth. SV Angel invests primarily in software-focused companies across the United States, with a typical investment size ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. They differentiate themselves by investing in a higher volume of companies, often over 100 per year, compared to traditional venture capital firms.

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Open Source

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a pioneering platform that enables secure execution of open-source AI models, employs agentic reasoning, and facilitates application deployment without permission. It offers a decentralized AI platform with native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, aiming to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access. The platform's heterogeneous AI compute architecture and proprietary library, NeuroML, scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, and statistical analysis. Additionally, OpenGradient provides a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage its AI stack, offering the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure without navigating blockchain complexities.

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a pioneering platform that enables secure execution of open-source AI models, employs agentic reasoning, and facilitates application deployment without permission. It offers a decentralized AI platform with native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, aiming to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access. The platform's heterogeneous AI compute architecture and proprietary library, NeuroML, scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, and statistical analysis. Additionally, OpenGradient provides a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage its AI stack, offering the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure without navigating blockchain complexities.

Together AI

Series A in 2024
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. The company contributes cutting-edge open-source research, models, and datasets to push the boundaries of AI forward. Through its decentralized cloud services, developers and researchers at organizations of various scales are empowered to train, refine, and deploy generative AI models.

Together AI

Seed Round in 2023
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. The company contributes cutting-edge open-source research, models, and datasets to push the boundaries of AI forward. Through its decentralized cloud services, developers and researchers at organizations of various scales are empowered to train, refine, and deploy generative AI models.

Hugging Face

Series C in 2022
Hugging Face, established in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in open-source machine learning technologies. It operates a platform that facilitates collaboration on machine learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications. The company aims to democratize machine learning by providing tools and services that support and advance the field, while also offering paid computing and enterprise systems to accelerate development.

Airbyte

Series B in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform automates the creation of data pipelines through the use of pre-built or custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently collect and analyze data from a diverse range of sources. This capability is particularly beneficial for organizations seeking to obtain insights from users employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on improving data accessibility and integration, Airbyte aims to streamline the data management process for businesses across various industries.

Infracost

Seed Round in 2021
Infracost is a cost-estimating platform that integrates into engineering workflows to provide insights on how code changes will impact cloud expenses before deployment. Utilizing an open-source framework, the platform enables users to assess the financial implications of their code modifications by calculating the expected increase in cloud costs and presenting the percentage change in billing. This functionality allows clients, particularly those responsible for acquiring cloud resources, to make informed decisions about their infrastructure usage, ensuring that they manage costs effectively and efficiently.

Evidence

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Evidence is an open-source business intelligence platform that enables analysts to create polished data products using SQL and markdown. This code-based alternative to traditional drag-and-drop BI tools facilitates the development of reliable and version-controlled reporting systems. With its enhanced component library, Evidence allows users to incorporate various charts and graphs into their reports, ensuring consistency and trustworthiness in their outputs. By leveraging a markup language for report generation, Evidence empowers SQL analysts to produce high-quality business reports and dashboards efficiently.

SST

Seed Round in 2021
SST is an open-source framework designed to facilitate the development of serverless applications. It provides developers with tools to create, test, and deploy Lambda functions in real-time, streamlining the development process. The platform manages pipelines, configures environments, and monitors deployments, allowing clients to efficiently build full-stack applications tailored to their business needs. Additionally, SST is recognized for producing a highly regarded resource for developers seeking guidance in building serverless applications.

Airbyte

Series A in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform automates the creation of data pipelines through the use of pre-built or custom connectors, allowing businesses to efficiently collect and analyze data from a diverse range of sources. This capability is particularly beneficial for organizations seeking to obtain insights from users employing ad-blocking tools. With a focus on improving data accessibility and integration, Airbyte aims to streamline the data management process for businesses across various industries.

Pyroscope

Seed Round in 2021
Pyroscope is an open-source tool designed for continuous profiling to help developers monitor and debug applications and APIs. Founded in 2020 and based in Oakland, California, Pyroscope provides a platform that enables users to identify performance issues and bottlenecks in their code. The technology includes features for code editing, debugging, and sampling profiling, allowing users to optimize application performance effectively. Additionally, the platform supports building custom data storage engines for storing and profiling data, enhancing the overall development process.

Infracost

Seed Round in 2021
Infracost is a cost-estimating platform that integrates into engineering workflows to provide insights on how code changes will impact cloud expenses before deployment. Utilizing an open-source framework, the platform enables users to assess the financial implications of their code modifications by calculating the expected increase in cloud costs and presenting the percentage change in billing. This functionality allows clients, particularly those responsible for acquiring cloud resources, to make informed decisions about their infrastructure usage, ensuring that they manage costs effectively and efficiently.

Splitgraph

Seed Round in 2020
Splitgraph is a developer of integrated data catalog software that enables users to combine multiple data sources into reproducible data images. The platform features an HTTP API and a PostgreSQL-compatible endpoint, allowing users to run queries on datasets using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. It utilizes columnar storage, optimizing it for fast aggregation queries, making it suitable for modern web applications. Splitgraph's indexes include diverse data sources, such as live databases and versioned data snapshots, facilitating a seamless connection to a data delivery network. This functionality empowers data scientists and engineers to create, share, and extend datasets in a straightforward and reproducible manner.

Isovalent

Series A in 2020
Isovalent, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions for enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in cloud-native environments. The company's flagship product, Cilium, leverages eBPF to enhance networking, security, and observability for Kubernetes deployments across both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Isovalent offers Cilium Enterprise, which focuses on security automation, compliance, and integration with legacy systems, along with open-source tools that facilitate network connectivity, threat detection, and security compliance monitoring. Founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, Isovalent serves a diverse clientele, including major organizations like Adobe, AWS, and Google. The company was established in 2016 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California, with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland.

PostHog

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform designed for developers, founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools that includes product analytics, session recording, funnels, feature flags, and experimentation, all integrated into a single solution. By automating event tracking and user data collection, PostHog enables engineers to understand product usage and user behavior more effectively. This functionality allows development teams to create applications that are better tailored to their users' needs.

EdgeDB

Seed Round in 2019
EdgeDB is an innovative company focused on transforming the relational database landscape. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, it offers an open-source object-relational database platform designed to address common challenges faced by developers and data engineers. By introducing a streamlined data model and a powerful query language, EdgeDB aims to enhance productivity and ease of use, making data management more efficient. The platform enables developers to construct complex queries, subqueries, and nested inserts with a composable syntax that simplifies the representation of selection sets and property assignments. This approach helps mitigate the impedance mismatch often encountered in traditional databases, allowing for the development of safer and more efficient software.

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.

Preset

Series A in 2019
Preset Inc. is a visual analytics company based in San Mateo, California, established in 2018. The company offers an open analytics data platform built on Apache Superset, designed to enhance productivity in data exploration and analysis. Its platform features an intuitive visual interface that allows users to create flexible dashboards and utilize a wide range of visualization types, facilitating efficient communication of data-driven insights. The cloud-native nature of Preset's solution supports modern team workflows, enabling data professionals to analyze, share, and make informed decisions based on their data.

Hugging Face

Seed Round in 2018
Hugging Face, established in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in open-source machine learning technologies. It operates a platform that facilitates collaboration on machine learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications. The company aims to democratize machine learning by providing tools and services that support and advance the field, while also offering paid computing and enterprise systems to accelerate development.

Hugging Face

Angel Round in 2017
Hugging Face, established in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in open-source machine learning technologies. It operates a platform that facilitates collaboration on machine learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications. The company aims to democratize machine learning by providing tools and services that support and advance the field, while also offering paid computing and enterprise systems to accelerate development.

Metabase

Convertible Note in 2016
Metabase is an open-source analytics and business intelligence application founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to create dashboards and reports, facilitating the measurement, analysis, and sharing of data to address complex business challenges. Metabase offers various professional services, including managed hosting and support, as well as assistance with implementing customized analytics solutions. This enables organizations to track data trends over time, enhancing their decision-making processes.

Styra

Seed Round in 2015
Styra, Inc. is a technology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to enforce and monitor authorization policies across their applications and infrastructure. The Styra platform utilizes an Open Policy Agent to provide a comprehensive solution for managing security and compliance risks. Its features include context-based admission control, policy design and validation, policy distribution, and monitoring and auditing capabilities. By implementing authorization policy-as-code, Styra allows businesses to pre-validate policy changes, thereby mitigating risks before deployment. The platform also supports a range of environments, including multi-cloud, microservices, containers, and databases, ensuring that security policies can be defined and enforced consistently across various namespaces and clusters.

Cockroach Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

D2iQ

Series B in 2014
D2iq, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a datacenter operating system (DCOS) to streamline the management and deployment of applications across physical and cloud-based infrastructures. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, D2iq's core product, Mesosphere DCOS, is built on open-source technology and simplifies the execution of applications in a data center environment, akin to launching apps on a personal computer. The company also offers solutions such as Mesosphere Infinity, which facilitates the transformation of Big Data into actionable insights, and Conductor, an interactive platform for hands-on cloud-native training. In addition to its software offerings, D2iq provides architectural and consulting services, including expert consultations, on-site training, and custom installations. The company's strategic alliances with prominent firms enhance its service offerings, enabling organizations to adopt open-source and cloud-native innovations effectively.

PipelineDB

Seed Round in 2014
PipelineDB, Inc. is a developer of a real-time analytics database that specializes in processing streaming data. Incorporated in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers an open-source extension to PostgreSQL, allowing users to write continuous SQL queries on time-series data. This innovative platform enables users to pose queries in advance, with results updated incrementally as new data arrives, which is particularly beneficial for real-time reporting applications. By facilitating the deployment of real-time application code directly in front of the database, PipelineDB helps clients eliminate the need for traditional data recording, focusing instead on high-performance aggregation of streaming data. As of May 2019, PipelineDB operates as a subsidiary of Confluent, Inc.

D2iQ

Seed Round in 2013
D2iq, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a datacenter operating system (DCOS) to streamline the management and deployment of applications across physical and cloud-based infrastructures. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, D2iq's core product, Mesosphere DCOS, is built on open-source technology and simplifies the execution of applications in a data center environment, akin to launching apps on a personal computer. The company also offers solutions such as Mesosphere Infinity, which facilitates the transformation of Big Data into actionable insights, and Conductor, an interactive platform for hands-on cloud-native training. In addition to its software offerings, D2iq provides architectural and consulting services, including expert consultations, on-site training, and custom installations. The company's strategic alliances with prominent firms enhance its service offerings, enabling organizations to adopt open-source and cloud-native innovations effectively.

Elastic

Series B in 2013
Elastic is a technology company that develops and distributes the Elastic Stack, an open-source suite of products including Elasticsearch, a distributed search and analytics engine, along with Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. The company also offers X-Pack, a commercial plugin for the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a family of SaaS offerings. With over 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's products are used by thousands of organizations worldwide for search, logging, metrics, and security use cases. Backed by prominent investors, Elastic has a distributed workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries.

Discourse

Seed Round in 2012
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform designed to enhance online communication in today's digital landscape. It serves multiple functions, including that of a mailing list, discussion forum, and long-form chat room, making it adaptable for various user needs. By reimagining traditional online discussion formats, Discourse aims to facilitate searchable and engaging conversations among users. The platform includes features such as a trust system, notifications, and community moderation, allowing users to connect with one another and foster meaningful interactions. Discourse is focused on creating a modern environment for discussions, emphasizing user experience and community engagement.

GitHub

Series A in 2012
GitHub is a software development platform that provides code hosting services for both open-source and private projects. It enables developers to store and share code repositories with various stakeholders, including colleagues and the public. The platform features collaboration tools such as version control, task management, issue tracking, and feature requests, which facilitate teamwork and enhance productivity. GitHub supports developers in overcoming challenges, advancing ideas, and fostering a learning environment within teams.

WibiData

Series A in 2012
WibiData is a software company that specializes in big data applications aimed at helping enterprises create personalized experiences across various channels. Founded in 2010 in San Francisco under the name Odiago by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu, WibiData leverages open-source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro, and the Kiji Project. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Through its innovative platform, WibiData enables organizations to effectively analyze and utilize their data for enhanced customer engagement.

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.

Apollo GraphQL

Seed Round in 2011
Apollo GraphQL helps developers help the world by providing a better API platform across teams. Apollo’s open-source software is downloaded 25M times per month and its commercial GraphQL technologies power the most innovative brands today. Teams at Netflix, Snap, and the New York Times ship personalized, omnichannel experiences faster with a supergraph – a self-service GraphQL platform that spans any number of backend services. Serving over 5T requests in 2023, the Apollo GraphOS platform simplifies API development with workflows and infrastructure to build, test, and ship supergraphs at any scale. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.

RethinkDB

Series A in 2011
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform designed specifically for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications more efficiently by allowing the database to push updated query results directly to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports data storage in JSON documents and features a user-friendly query language that includes capabilities such as table joins and groupBy. The platform is built for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with the tools to manage clusters effectively, monitor production environments with live statistics, and gain complete visibility into ongoing tasks. This combination of features allows RethinkDB to facilitate the rapid development of realtime applications while maintaining simplicity and scalability.

dotCloud

Series A in 2011
DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container.

WibiData

Seed Round in 2010
WibiData is a software company that specializes in big data applications aimed at helping enterprises create personalized experiences across various channels. Founded in 2010 in San Francisco under the name Odiago by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu, WibiData leverages open-source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro, and the Kiji Project. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Through its innovative platform, WibiData enables organizations to effectively analyze and utilize their data for enhanced customer engagement.

RethinkDB

Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform designed specifically for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications more efficiently by allowing the database to push updated query results directly to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports data storage in JSON documents and features a user-friendly query language that includes capabilities such as table joins and groupBy. The platform is built for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with the tools to manage clusters effectively, monitor production environments with live statistics, and gain complete visibility into ongoing tasks. This combination of features allows RethinkDB to facilitate the rapid development of realtime applications while maintaining simplicity and scalability.

Adobe Fonts

Seed Round in 2009
Adobe Fonts allows subscribers to embed fonts into online documents and websites, as well as activate fonts on their desktop computers. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries. Their fonts are served from a global network on redundant servers, offering bulletproof service and incredible speed. Adobe Fonts is formerly Typekit, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011.
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