34 Top Open Source Software Companies

Roadmap: Open Source

After years of investing in open source software, we’re releasing our thinking on what positions these companies as emerging technology giants.

The Rise of OPEN Innovation: The 3P’s for Building a Durable Open Software Company

Accel recently hosted more than 100 of the top open source executives and thought leaders for a full-day event covering the next wave of…

Open source software companies that go proprietary: A timeline | TechCrunch

Tracking open source software companies that have gone proprietary over the past 10 years: A timeline.

Setting an Open Source Strategy

The majority of companies that use open source understand its business value and identify its advantages in efficiency, flexibility, interoperability, and speed of innovation. Yet only half of these companies report practicing basic open source management, such as community development, code maintenance, and the like, according to the latest Future of Open Source survey.

Open Source is Not Enough

by James Halliday // The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor.

In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move?

We have to draw a line between open source and the right to make money with open source."

5 ways open source software companies make money

A guide on how to evaluate the long-term sustainability of the business behind any open-source software you are using (or considering working on yourself).

How open-source software took over the world | TechCrunch

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing excitement in the space.

It’s actually open source software that's eating the world

At Lightspeed we’ve been investing aggressively in open source software (OSS) businesses for the past 10 years. Recently, we’ve seen a significant increase in entrepreneurs pitching open source startups, and we’ve also seen greater competition for these deals. We pulled together some numbers in an attempt to measure the acceleration in interest in and funding for OSS businesses in the last few years. The results were staggering even to us.

Want To Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code

We analyzed the 30 most-applied-to U.S. tech companies of all time on AngelList and found that over half host open-source projects.

Open Source Is Eating The Software World

It's been said software is eating the world. This year’s Future of Open Source survey points to the fact that open source is eating the software world.

The Money In Open-Source Software | TechCrunch

It’s no secret that open-source technology -- once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters -- has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are not financially healthy.

​Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever

"The reward of victory is often another set of battles."

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker

Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects, and how to build resilience to corporate capture.

Sustaining Open Source Software

The ‘open source sustainability’ debate continues with yet-another-company relicensing their product away from an open source license to…

Open source and the software supply chain

Managing something as esoteric as resources for building software with a variety of contributions made by the open source community is more amorphic.