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1 | Originally authored by Joseph Jacks in September, 2013. | Criteria: This sheet (COSSI: the "Commercial OSS" - COSS - company index) includes COSS companies that have ever historically or currently reached $100M or more in annual revenues of any kind. | |||||||||||||||||
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3 | Actively maintained by COSS Media. | COSS Definition: A given company that, fundamentally, would have no compelling reason to exist without the paralell existence of a largely singular Open Source core project. | |||||||||||||||||
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6 | Company | Company Creation | Project Creation | VC Raised (M) | Employees | Est. Revenue (M) | Est. Valuation (B) | Public/Private | Status | Outcome | Exit Value (B) | Exit Date | Technology Area | Business Model | OSS Origin | Core Project(s) | OSS License | Foundation-Based | |
7 | WP Engine | 2010 | 2003 | $290 | 700 | $150 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Content Management System | Open Core | Personal project | Wordpress | GPL v2 | https://wordpressfoundation.org/ | ||||
8 | VA Linux (Geeknet) | 1993 | 1991 | $30 | 300 | $120 | $0.2 | Private | Acquired | IPO | $0.15 | 12/9/99 | Computer Systems | Hardware Sales | Personal project | Linux | GPL v2 | No, pre-LF | |
9 | Talend | 2005 | 2006 | $100 | 1,300 | $200 | $2.0 | Public | Independent | IPO | $0.55 | 7/28/16 | SOA/ETL/AI/Middleware | Open Core | Company project | Talend Data Integration | Apache 2.0 | No | |
10 | SUSE | 1992 | 1991 | - | 1,500 | $400 | $2.5 | Public (via Novell) + Private (MicroFocus/PE) + PE (EQT) | M&A | $2.50 | 11/4/03 | Operating System (Linux) | Support Subscriptions | Personal project | Linux Kernel | GPL v2 | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ | ||
11 | SugarCRM | 2004 | 2004 | $123 | 440 | $175 | $1.0 | Private | PE | PE | 8/20/18 | CRM | Previously Open Core | Company project | SugarCRM | Previously A2.0 | No | ||
12 | Sourcefire | 2001 | 1998 | $40 | 600 | $500 | $3.0 | Public (via Cisco) | Acquired | M&A | $2.70 | 10/7/13 | Network Intrusion Detection | Open Core | Personal project | Snort | GPL v2 | No | |
13 | Smile | 1991 | N/A | $5 | 1,600 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | M&A | Integrator | Open Cores | Many | Many | Many | Yes | |||
14 | Red Hat | 1993 | 1991 | $5 | 13,100 | $3,500 | $34.5 | Public | Acquired | IPO + M&A | $34.00 | 8/11/99 | OS, Middleware, Infrastructure Software | Support Subscriptions | Personal project | Linux | GPL v2 | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ | |
15 | Puppet Labs | 2005 | 2005 | $142 | 560 | $250 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | Configuration Management | Open Core | Company project | Puppet | Apache 2.0 | No | ||||
16 | Pivotal | 2013 | 2009 | $1,700 | 2,400 | $800 | $3.5 | Public | Acquired | IPO | $4.00 | 4/20/18 | PaaS / Hadoop / Spring | Open Core | Company project (VMware) | CloudFoundry | Apache 2.0 | https://www.cloudfoundry.org/foundation/ | |
17 | Pentaho | 2004 | 2004 | $75 | 670 | $150 | $1.0 | Public (via Hitachi) | Acquired | M&A | $0.60 | 6/4/15 | BI/ETL | Open Core | Company project | Pentaho | Apache 2.0 | No | |
18 | Odoo | 2005 | 2005 | $105 | 800 | $250 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Business Applications | Open Core | Company project | Odoo | LGPL v3 | https://odoo-community.org/ | ||||
19 | Nicira | 2007 | 2009 | $42 | 100 | $2,000 | $1.3 | Public (via VMware) | Acquired | M&A | $1.26 | 7/23/12 | SDN / Network Virtualization | Open Core | Academia/Research (Stanford) | Open vSwitch | Apache 2.0 | http://openvswitch.org/ | |
20 | Neo4j | 2007 | 2007 | $160 | 300 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Graph Database | Open Core | Company Project | Neo4j | GPLv3 | No | ||||
21 | MySQL AB | 1995 | 1995 | $41 | 800 | $1,000 | $1.1 | Public (via Oracle) | Acquired | M&A | $1.10 | 2/26/08 | Relational Database | Open Core | Company project | MySQL | GPL v2 | No | |
22 | MuleSoft | 2006 | 2003 | $250 | 1,750 | $700 | $8.0 | Public (via SFDC) | Acquired | IPO + M&A | $6.50 | 3/20/18 | Middleware | Open Core | Personal project | Mule ESB | CPAL | No | |
23 | Mozilla Corporation | 2003 | 2002 | $3 | 1,100 | $550 | $5.0 | Private | Independent | Web Browser | Ads/Royalties | Spin-out (Netscape) | Firefox | MPLv2 | https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/ | ||||
24 | MongoDB (fka 10gen) | 2007 | 2009 | $311 | 1,500 | $400 | $9.0 | Public | Independent | IPO | $1.60 | 10/19/17 | NoSQL Database | Open Core | Spin-out (10gen) | MongoDB | SSPL (not OSI) | No | |
25 | Mirantis | 1999 | 2010 | $220 | 500 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Infrastructure Software | Open Core | Academia/Research (NASA) | OpenStack | Apache 2.0 | https://www.openstack.org/foundation/ | ||||
26 | Mapbox | 2010 | 2010 | $230 | 450 | $100 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Mapping Software | Open Core | Company project (DevelopmentSeed) | Mapbox GL JS | BSD-3 | No | ||||
27 | Magento Commerce | 2007 | 2008 | $272 | 700 | $200 | $1.7 | Public (via Adobe) | Acquired | M&A | $1.68 | 5/20/18 | Web Content Mgmt System | Open Core | Company project (Varien) | Magento | OSL v3, AFL v3 | No | |
28 | Liferay | 2004 | 2000 | - | 870 | $250 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | Enterprise Portal | Open Core | Company project | Liferay Portal | LGPL v2.1+ | No | ||||
29 | Kaltura | 2006 | 2009 | $166.00 | 480 | $200 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Video Editing Platform | Open Core | Company project | Kaltura | AGPL v3 | No | ||||
30 | JFrog | 2008 | 2007 | $230 | 460 | $150 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Software Artifact Repository | Open Core | Company project | Artifactory | AGPL v3 | No | ||||
31 | JetBrains | 2000 | 2009 | - | 800 | $350 | $4.0 | Private | Independent | Developer Tools | Open Core | Company project | IntelliJ | Apache 2.0 | No | ||||
32 | Instructure | 2008 | 2011 | $90 | 1,420 | $220 | $1.4 | Public | Independent | IPO | $0.65 | 11/13/2015 | Learning Management | Open Core | Company project | Canvas | AGPL v3 | No | |
33 | Hortonworks | 2011 | 2006 | $250 | 1,500 | $400 | $1.5 | Public | Merged | IPO | $0.70 | 12/11/2014 | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Support Subscriptions | Internet-Scale (Google) | Hadoop | Apache 2.0 | http://hadoop.apache.org/ | |
34 | HashiCorp | 2012 | 2010 | $175 | 560 | $150 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | Developer / Ops / Infra Tools | Open Core | Personal project | Many | MPLv2 | No | ||||
35 | GitHub | 2009 | 2005 | $350 | 1,550 | $400 | $7.5 | Public (via MSFT) | Acquired | M&A | $7.50 | 6/4/18 | Distributed Source Code Version Control | Open Core | Personal project | Git | GPL v2 | No | |
36 | ForgeRock | 2010 | 2005 | $140 | 550 | $120 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Identity and Access Management | Open Core | Spin-out (Sun) | OpenAM/IDM/DJ/IG | CDDL | No | ||||
37 | Fastly | 2011 | 2006 | $220 | 550 | $200 | $2.0 | Public | Independent | IPO | $2B+ | 5/18/19 | CDN | Open Core | Internet-Scale (Verdens Gang) | Varnish | BSD | No | |
38 | Elastic | 2012 | 2010 | $162 | 1,600 | $400 | $5.0 | Public | Independent | IPO | $2.5B | 10/5/18 | Distributed Search Index + Tools | Open Core | Personal project | ElasticSearch | Apache 2.0 | Lucene in ASF (basis for ElasticSearch) | |
39 | Datastax | 2010 | 2008 | $190 | 580 | $150 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | NoSQL Database | Open Core | Internet-Scale (Facebook) | Cassandra | Apache 2.0 | http://cassandra.apache.org/ | ||||
40 | Databricks | 2013 | 2010 | $900 | 1,000 | $250 | $6.5 | Private | Independent | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Open Core | Academia/Research (AMPLab) | Spark | Apache 2.0 | https://spark.apache.org/ | ||||
41 | Confluent | 2014 | 2011 | $205 | 800 | $150 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | Big Data / Middleware / Streaming | Open Core | Internet-Scale (LinkedIn) | Kafka | Apache 2.0 | http://kafka.apache.org/ | ||||
42 | Coinbase | 2012 | 2009 | $546 | 1,100 | $1,500 | $8.0 | Private | Independent | Cryptocurrency Wallet/Exchange/Platform | Open Core | Personal project (Anonymous) | Bitcoin/Ethereum | MIT/A2.0 | Yes | ||||
43 | Cloudera | 2008 | 2006 | $1,100 | 3,200 | $500 | $1.7 | Public | IPO | IPO | $1.90 | 4/28/17 | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Open Core | Internet-Scale (Google) | Hadoop | Apache 2.0 | http://hadoop.apache.org/ | |
44 | Chef | 2008 | 2009 | $105 | 350 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Configuration Management | Support Subscriptions | Personal project | Chef | Apache 2.0 | No | ||||
45 | Canonical | 2004 | 2004 | - | 630 | $150 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Operating System (Linux) | Open Core | Company project | Ubuntu | GPL | Ubuntu Foundation | ||||
46 | Automattic | 2005 | 2003 | $317 | 1,150 | $300 | $3.0 | Private | Independent | Content Management System | Open Core | Personal project | Wordpress | GPL v2 | https://wordpressfoundation.org/ | ||||
47 | Alfresco | 2005 | 2005 | $70 | 460 | $100 | $0.3 | Private | PE | PE | $0.30 | 2/8/18 | ECM <> BPM | Open Core | Company project | Alfresco | LGPL v3 | No | |
48 | Acquia | 2007 | 2000 | $200 | 930 | $200 | $1.5 | Private | PE | PE | $1.50 | 9/24/19 | Web Content Mgmt System | Open Core | Personal project | Drupal | GPL v2 | Yes | |
49 | $9,560 | 51710 | $17,985 | $142.7 | |||||||||||||||
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