This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Open Source companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Open Source industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top San Francisco Open Source Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
GitLab
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GitLab is a web-based open source Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features and built-in CI/CD.
Docker
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Docker provides an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications.
PostHog
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PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Crate.io
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Crate.io develops CrateDB, purpose-built to scale applications in a machine data world.
Kong
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Kong is the cloud-connectivity company offering the industry-leading service connectivity platform designed for modern architectures.
Serverless
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Serverless provides development framework for building serverless architectures.
Lucidworks
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Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud to some of the world’s largest brands.
comma.ai
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comma is solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries: openpilot and the comma two.
Tigera
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Kubernetes security and observability in minutes. Any Kubernetes distribution, any cloud, any application.
Dgraph Labs
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Dgraph is a fast, transactional, native and distributed graph database.
Apollo
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Apollo is the GraphQL company. Its Data Graph Platform helps developers, startups, and enterprises get the most out of GraphQL.
O(1) Labs
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O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
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CNCF is an open source software foundation that hosts and nurtures projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus.
Panther Labs
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Panther is a cybersecurity startup offering a platform for detecting threats and providing security insights at cloud-scale
Pachyderm
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Pachyderm is an enterprise-grade data science platform that makes explainable, repeatable, and scalable AI/ML a reality.
FOSSA
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FOSSA provides a platform that helps enterprises manage and maximize open source use at scale.
StreamNative
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StreamNative offers an streaming platform based on Apache Pulsar that enables companies to access enterprise data as real-time streams.
Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
Gradle Inc.
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Gradle provides the most popular open source build tool for the Java ecosystem and the Gradle Enterprise commercial build analytics solution
ENDLESS
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Endless purpose is to connect the unconnected, enhancing the development and education of all people in emerging markets.
Observable
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Observable provides a data visualization platform for developers, data scientists, journalists, and educators.
ArangoDB
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ArangoDB is an open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values.
Joyent
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Joyent is a cloud infrastructure service provider that enables its customers to operate modern cloud native applications.
Buoyant
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Buoyant makes applications faster, safer, and more reliable.
QuestDB
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QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Swiftype
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Swiftype is a provider of SaaS-based site and enterprise search platform used to fully customize the search experience on websites.
Autocode
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An online code editor with API autocomplete, instant hosting, and a Standard Library. Sync data, build bots and customize workflows.
NodeSource
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Building products focused on Node.js security and performance for the Enterprise.
Openbase
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Openbase helps developers choose among millions of open-source packages, so they can build amazing products faster.
Purism
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Purism beautiful computers designed to respect and protect your privacy, security and freedom.
Tlon
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Tlon is the corporate vehicle of the open-source Urbit software stack (urbit.org).
SourceClear
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SourceClear enables teams to visualize vulnerabilities across all their development projects in real time.
Heartex
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Heartex offers a data labeling and annotations tool for building accurate and smart AI products.
Cloud9 IDE
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Cloud9 IDE is a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment that allows web and mobile developers to collaborate in remote teams.
Linux Foundation
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The Linux Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.
Inflect
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Indexing the world’s data center, cloud and network data into a neutral, online marketplace and software research tools.
eXo Platform
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eXo offers an extensible platform with social tools and enterprise portal functionalities that enable its users to connect and collaborate.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
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Piston is the OpenStack® orchestration company.
Jaspersoft
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Jaspersoft provides a business intelligence suite that allows businesses to make better decisions through reports, dashboards and analytics.
Inktank
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Inktank provides an open source distributed storage system that decreases storage costs and increases operational flexibility.
BitRock
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BitRock provides tools and services for packaging, deploying and updating software.
Robocorp
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Robocorp is a cloud platform for robotic process automation (RPA) and open source RPA tools.
Solinea
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The professional services partner that accelerates enterprise cloud adoption
Bountysource
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Bountysource offers an online funding platform for open-source software.
Opbeat
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Opbeat is an open source application performance monitoring that identifies performance issues with a breakdown that makes sense.
Open mHealth
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Open mHealth is a non-profit technology company that’s unlocking digital health data to improve patient health.
Hyperledger
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Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies.