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1 | COSS Company | FOSS Core | OSS License | Company Creation | Project Creation | OSS Origin | VC Raised (M) | Employees | Est. Revenue (M) | Est. Valuation (B) | Exit Value (B) | Status / Outcome | Exit Date | Sector | Business Model | Foundation-Based | Founders (126) | |||||||
2 | VA Linux (Geeknet) | Linux | GPL v2 | 1993 | 1991 | Personal project | $30 | 300 | $120 | $0.2 | $0.15 | Acquired (Geeknet) | 12/9/99 | Computer Systems | Hardware Sales | No, pre-LF | Larry Augustin | |||||||
3 | Alfresco | Alfresco | LGPL v3 | 2005 | 2005 | Company project | $70 | 419 | $100 | $0.3 | $1.00 | PE (Hyland) | 9/9/2020 | ECM <> BPM | Open Core | No | John Powell | John Newton | ||||||
4 | Kaltura | Kaltura | AGPL v3 | 2006 | 2009 | Company project | $230 | 840 | $170 | $0.3 | IPO | 7/20/2021 | Media Services / Video Cloud | Open Core | No | Michal Tsur | Shay David | Ron Yekutiel | ||||||
5 | Puppet Labs | Puppet | Apache 2.0 | 2005 | 2005 | Company project | $190 | 480 | $150 | $0.3 | Private | Configuration Management | Open Core | No | Luke Kanies | |||||||||
6 | Couchbase | Couchbase | Apache 2.0 | 2005 | 2003 | Spin-out (LiveJournal) | $251 | 745 | $130 | $0.7 | Private | NoSQL Database | Open Core | No | Steve Yen | Dustin Sallings | James Phillips | Chris Anderson | Damien Katz | |||||
7 | WP Engine | Wordpress | GPL v2 | 2010 | 2003 | Personal project | $291 | 1120 | $250 | $1.0 | $0.25 | PE (Silver Lake) | 1/4/2018 | Content Management System | Open Core | https://wordpressfoundation.org/ | Jason Cohen | Cullen Wilson | Ben Metcalfe | |||||
8 | SugarCRM | SugarCRM | Previously A2.0 | 2004 | 2004 | Company project | $146 | 504 | $175 | $1.0 | PE (KKR) | 8/20/18 | CRM | Previously Open Core | No | John Roberts | Jacob Taylor | Clint Oram | ||||||
9 | Acquia | Drupal | GPL v2 | 2007 | 2000 | Personal project | $200 | 1,150 | $200 | $1.0 | $1.00 | PE (Vista) | 9/24/19 | Web Content Mgmt System | Open Core | Yes | Dries Buytaert | Jay Batson | ||||||
10 | Mirantis | OpenStack | Apache 2.0 | 1999 | 2010 | Academia/Research (NASA) | $254 | 730 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Infrastructure Software | Open Core | https://www.openstack.org/foundation/ | Adrian Ionel | Alex Freedland | Boris Renski | |||||||
11 | Cloudbees | Jenkins | MIT | 2010 | 2011 | Personal project | $465 | 560 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | DevOps / CI | Open Core | https://cd.foundation/ | ||||||||||
12 | MySQL AB | MySQL | GPL v2 | 1995 | 1995 | Company project | $41 | 800 | $1,000 | $1.1 | $1.10 | Acquired (Sun) | 2/26/08 | Relational Database | Open Core | No | Michael "Monty" Widenius | David Axmark | Allan Larsson | |||||
13 | Redis Labs | Redis | BSD-3 | 2011 | 2009 | Personal Project | $356 | 800 | $200 | $1.1 | Private | Database | Open Core | No | Ofer Bengal | Yiftach Shoolman | ||||||||
14 | Treasure Data | Fluentd | Apache 2.0 | 2011 | 2011 | Company project | $54 | 589 | $120 | $1.2 | $1.00 | Acquired (Arm) | 8/2/18 | Log Data Platform | Open Core | https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluentd-has-joined-cncf | Hiro | Kazuki Ohta | ||||||
15 | Mapbox | Mapbox GL JS | BSD-3 | 2010 | 2010 | Company project (DevelopmentSeed) | $360 | 690 | $100 | $1.2 | Private | Mapping Software | Open Core | No | Eric Gundersen | |||||||||
16 | Nicira | Open vSwitch | Apache 2.0 | 2007 | 2009 | Academia/Research (Stanford) | $42 | 100 | $2,000 | $1.3 | $1.26 | Acquired (VMW) | 7/23/12 | SDN / Network Virtualization | Open Core | http://openvswitch.org/ | Martin Casado | Ben Pfaff | Nick McKeown | Scott Shenker | ||||
17 | Fastly | Varnish | BSD | 2011 | 2006 | Internet-Scale (Verdens Gang) | $220 | 1,070 | $370 | $1.4 | $1.45 | IPO | 5/17/19 | CDN | Open Core | No | Artur Bergman | |||||||
18 | Canonical | Ubuntu | GPL | 2004 | 2004 | Company project | $12.80 | 1,100 | $130 | $1.5 | Private | Operating System (Linux) | Open Core | Ubuntu Foundation | Mark Shuttleworth | |||||||||
19 | Magento Commerce | Magento | OSL v3, AFL v3 | 2007 | 2008 | Company project (Varien) | $272 | 700 | $170 | $1.7 | $1.68 | Acquired (Adobe) | 5/20/18 | Web Content Mgmt System | Open Core | No | Roy Rubin | Yoav Kutner | ||||||
20 | Datastax | Cassandra | Apache 2.0 | 2010 | 2008 | Internet-Scale (Facebook) | $343 | 760 | $150 | $1.7 | Private | NoSQL Database | Open Core | http://cassandra.apache.org/ | Matt Pfeil | Jonathan Ellis | ||||||||
21 | ForgeRock | OpenAM/IDM/DJ/IG | CDDL | 2010 | 2005 | Spin-out (Sun) | $235 | 880 | $200 | $1.8 | $2.00 | IPO | 9/16/21 | Identity and Access Management | Open Core | No | Allan Foster | Lasse Andresen | Jonathan Scudder | Stein Myrseth | Hermann Svoren | Victor Ake | Steve Ferris | |
22 | Neo4j | Neo4j | GPLv3 | 2007 | 2007 | Company Project | $518 | 762 | $150 | $2.0 | Private | Graph Database | Open Core | No | Emil Eifrem | Johan Svensson | Peter Neubauer | |||||||
23 | Liferay | Liferay Portal | LGPL v2.1+ | 2004 | 2000 | Company project | - | 1,250 | $300 | $2.0 | Private | Enterprise Portal | Open Core | No | Brian Chan | Brian Kim | Bryan Cheung | Caris Chan | ||||||
24 | Mozilla Corporation | Firefox | MPLv2 | 2003 | 2002 | Spin-out (Netscape) | $22 | 1,580 | $500 | $2.0 | Private | Web Browser | Ads/Royalties | https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/ | Mitchell Baker | Brendan Eich | ||||||||
25 | Docker | Docker | Apache 2.0 | 2008 | 2013 | Spin-out (dotCloud) | $443 | 490 | $100 | $2.1 | Private | Developer Tools | Open Core | https://www.cncf.io/cncf-containerd-project-journey/ | Solomon Hykes | Sebastien Pahl | ||||||||
26 | JFrog | Artifactory | AGPL v3 | 2008 | 2007 | Company project | $230 | 1,240 | $270 | $2.3 | $3.90 | IPO | 9/16/20 | Software Artifact Repository | Open Core | No | Fred Simon | Shlomi Ben Haim | Yoav Landman | |||||
27 | Talend | Talend Data Integration | Apache 2.0 | 2005 | 2006 | Company project | $145 | 1,610 | $300 | $2.5 | $2.50 | PE (Thoma Bravo) | 7/28/16 | SOA/ETL/AI/Middleware | Open Core | No | Bertrand Diard | Fabrice Bonan | ||||||
28 | Sourcefire | Snort | GPL v2 | 2001 | 1998 | Personal project | $40 | 600 | $500 | $2.7 | $2.70 | Acquired (Cisco) | 10/7/13 | Network Intrusion Detection | Open Core | No | Martin Roesch | |||||||
29 | Automattic | WordPress | GPL v2 | 2005 | 2003 | Personal project | $804 | 2,045 | $400 | $3.0 | Private | Content Management System | Open Core | https://wordpressfoundation.org/ | Matt Mullenweg | |||||||||
30 | SUSE | Linux Kernel | GPL v2 | 1992 | 1991 | Personal project | $12 | 2,172 | $580 | $3.1 | $5.60 | IPO | 5/19/21 | Operating System (Linux) | Support Subscriptions | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ | Hubert Mantel | Roland Dyroff | Thomas Fehr | Burchard Steinbild | ||||
31 | Pivotal (Now VMware Tanzu) | CloudFoundry | Apache 2.0 | 2013 | 2009 | Company project (VMware) | $1,700 | 500 | $800 | $3.5 | $4.00 | Acquired (VMW) | 4/20/18 | PaaS / Hadoop / Spring | Open Core | https://www.cloudfoundry.org/foundation/ | Paul Maritz | Rob Mee | Scott Yara | Bill Cook | ||||
32 | Instructure | Canvas | AGPL v3 | 2008 | 2011 | Company project | $90 | 1,440 | $460 | $3.5 | $2.70 | IPO | 7/22/2021 | Learning Management | Open Core | No | Brian Whitmer | Devlin Daley | ||||||
33 | Odoo | Odoo | LGPL v3 | 2005 | 2005 | Company project | $315 | 2,380 | $250 | $3.5 | Private | Business Applications | Open Core | https://odoo-community.org/ | Fabien Pinckaers | |||||||||
34 | Rapid7 | Metasploit | BSD-3 | 2000 | 2003 | Personal project | $89 | 3,000 | $520 | $3.7 | $0.90 | IPO | 7/22/15 | Security | Open Core | No | Tas Giakouminakis | Alan Matthews | Chad Loder | |||||
35 | Rackspace | OpenStack | Apache 2.0 | 1998 | 2010 | Academia/Research (NASA) | $750 | 7,800 | $2,700 | $5.0 | $4.00 | Private | 8/4/20 | Cloud Platform | Open Core | https://www.openstack.org/foundation/ | Dirk Elmendorf | Richard Yoo | Pat Condon | |||||
36 | Cloudera | Hadoop | Apache 2.0 | 2008 | 2006 | Internet-Scale (Google) | $1,350 | 3,300 | $1,000 | $5.3 | $5.30 | PE (KKR) | 10/8/21 | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Open Core | http://hadoop.apache.org/ | Christophe Bisciglia | Amr Awadallah | Jeff Hammerbacher | Mike Olson | ||||
37 | MuleSoft | Mule ESB | CPAL | 2006 | 2003 | Personal project | $311 | 3,000 | $1,700 | $6.50 | $6.50 | Acquired (Salesforce) | 3/20/18 | Middleware | Open Core | No | Ross Mason | Dave Rosenberg | ||||||
38 | GitLab | Git | GPL v2 | 2014 | 2011 | Personal project | $437 | 2,000 | $300 | $7.0 | $11.00 | IPO | 11/14/2021 | Distributed Source Code Version Control | Open Core | https://git-scm.com/sfc | Sid Sijbrandij | Dmitriy Zaporozhets | ||||||
39 | JetBrains | IntelliJ | Apache 2.0 | 2000 | 2009 | Company project | - | 1,900 | $400 | $7.0 | Private | Developer Tools | Open Core | No | Sergey Dmitriev | Valentin Kipyatkov | Eugene Belyaev | |||||||
40 | Confluent | Kafka | Apache 2.0 | 2014 | 2011 | Internet-Scale (LinkedIn) | $455 | 2,500 | $440 | $8.0 | $11.00 | Private | 6/23/21 | Big Data / Middleware / Streaming | Open Core | http://kafka.apache.org/ | Jun Rao | Jay Kreps | Neha Narkhede | |||||
41 | Elastic | ElasticSearch | SSPL | 2012 | 2010 | Personal project | $120 | 3,200 | $880 | $7.4 | $2.5B | IPO | 10/5/18 | Distributed Search Index + Tools | Open Core | Lucene in ASF (basis for ElasticSearch) | Shay Bannon | Steve Schuurman | Simon Willnauer | Uri Boness | ||||
42 | GitHub | Git | GPL v2 | 2009 | 2005 | Personal project | $350 | 4,660 | $500 | $7.0 | $7.50 | Acquired (Microsoft) | 6/4/18 | Distributed Source Code Version Control | Open Core | https://git-scm.com/sfc | Tom Preston-Werner | Chris Wanstrath | P.J. Hyett | Scott Chacon | ||||
43 | HashiCorp | Many | MPLv2 | 2012 | 2010 | Personal project | $349 | 2,300 | $275 | $8.00 | $14.30 | IPO | 12/9/2021 | Developer / Ops / Infra Tools | Open Core | No | Mitchell Hashimoto | Armon Dadgar | ||||||
44 | MongoDB (fka 10gen) | MongoDB | SSPL | 2007 | 2009 | Spin-out (10gen) | $311 | 4,600 | $1,300 | $23.0 | $1.20 | IPO | 10/19/17 | NoSQL Database | Open Core | No | Eliot Horowitz | Dwight Merriman | Kevin P. Ryan | |||||
45 | Red Hat | Linux | GPL v2 | 1993 | 1991 | Personal project | $15 | 19,500 | $5,000 | $34.5 | $34.00 | Acquired (IBM) | 8/11/99 | OS, Middleware, Infrastructure Software | Support Subscriptions | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ | Bob Young | Marc Ewing | ||||||
46 | Databricks | Spark | Apache 2.0 | 2013 | 2010 | Academia/Research (AMPLab) | $1,900 | 4,500 | $1,000 | $39.0 | Private | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Open Core | https://spark.apache.org/ | Ion Stoica | Matei Zaharia | Patrick Wendell | Ali Ghodsi | Andy Konwinski | Reynold Xin | Scott Shenker | |||
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