OSS Capital
The first and only early-stage VC exclusively dedicated to backing leading COSS (commercial open source) startup founders on a global basis since 2018.
Company Size
11 - 50 employees
Year Founded
2018
About OSS Capital
Founded in 2018, OSS Capital is the first and only institutional VC firm exclusively dedicated to COSS (open source startups).
We’ve led 40+ founding seed rounds on a global basis (India, UK, EU, Canada, US, Singapore, and beyond) — usually at incorporation. Five years in, we hold the largest concentrated portfolio of the fastest growing and most vibrant open source projects in AI/ML, DevTools, API / Middleware Infra, Data, Consumer & Enterprise Apps, and more, serving 120 million+ users, 10,000+ open source contributors and more than 25 projects in the top 0.001% of all open source ecosystems globally by reach and activity.
Our firm is backed + supported by the founders and operators of the most successful COSS startups of the last 30 years including HashiCorp, MongoDB, Elastic, Red Hat, GitLab, Cloudera, Grafana, Confluent, and many more.
