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1 | Originally created by Joseph Jacks in September, 2013. | Criteria: COSS ("Commercial OSS" - COSS - company index) includes COSS companies that have ever reached $100M or more in annual revenues of any kind (subscription, license, cloud, services, etc). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | Maintained by COSS Media. | COSS Definition: "If any company fundamentally depends on a largely singular Open-Source core technology to justify its existence, that company is definitionally a COSS (Commercial Open-Source Software) company" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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5 | Company | Core Project(s) | OSS License | Company Creation | Project Creation | OSS Origin | VC Raised (M) | Employees | Est. Revenue (M) | Est. Valuation (B) | Exit Value (B) | Public/Private | Status | Outcome | Exit Date | Technology Area | Business Model | Foundation-Based | Founders (121) | |||||||
6 | Acquia | Drupal | GPL v2 | 2007 | 2000 | Personal project | $200 | 930 | $200 | $1.5 | $1.50 | Private | PE | PE | 9/24/19 | Web Content Mgmt System | Open Core | Yes | Dries Buytaert | Jay Batson | ||||||
7 | Alfresco | Alfresco | LGPL v3 | 2005 | 2005 | Company project | $70 | 460 | $100 | $0.3 | $0.30 | Private | PE | PE | 2/8/18 | ECM <> BPM | Open Core | No | John Powell | John Newton | ||||||
8 | Automattic | Wordpress | GPL v2 | 2005 | 2003 | Personal project | $317 | 1,200 | $300 | $3.0 | Private | Independent | Content Management System | Open Core | https://wordpressfoundation.org/ | Matt Mullenweg | ||||||||||
9 | Canonical | Ubuntu | GPL | 2004 | 2004 | Company project | - | 630 | $150 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Operating System (Linux) | Open Core | Ubuntu Foundation | Mark Shuttleworth | ||||||||||
10 | Chef | Chef | Apache 2.0 | 2008 | 2009 | Personal project | $105 | 350 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Configuration Management | Support Subscriptions | No | Jesse Robbins | Adam Jacob | Barry Steinglass | Nathan Haneysmith | |||||||
11 | Cloudera | Hadoop | Apache 2.0 | 2008 | 2006 | Internet-Scale (Google) | $1,350 | 3,100 | $850 | $3.0 | $1.90 | Public | IPO | IPO | 4/28/17 | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Open Core | http://hadoop.apache.org/ | Christophe Bisciglia | Amr Awadallah | Jeff Hammerbacher | Mike Olson | ||||
12 | Confluent | Kafka | Apache 2.0 | 2014 | 2011 | Internet-Scale (LinkedIn) | $455 | 1,100 | $300 | $4.5 | Private | Independent | Big Data / Middleware / Streaming | Open Core | http://kafka.apache.org/ | Jun Rao | Jay Kreps | Neha Narkhede | ||||||||
13 | Couchbase | Couchbase | Apache 2.0 | 2005 | 2003 | Spin-out (LiveJournal) | $246 | 500 | $100 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | NoSQL Database | Open Core | Steve Yen | Dustin Sallings | James Phillips | Chris Anderson | Damien Katz | |||||||
14 | Docker | Docker | Apache 2.0 | 2008 | 2013 | Spin-out (dotCloud) | $308 | 500 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Developer Tools | Open Core | https://www.cncf.io/cncf-containerd-project-journey/ | Solomon Hykes | Sebastien Pahl | |||||||||
15 | Databricks | Spark | Apache 2.0 | 2013 | 2010 | Academia/Research (AMPLab) | $900 | 1,300 | $400 | $6.5 | Private | Independent | Big Data / Hadoop Ecosystem | Open Core | https://spark.apache.org/ | Ion Stoica | Matei Zaharia | Patrick Wendell | Ali Ghodsi | Andy Konwinski | Reynold Xin | Scott Shenker | ||||
16 | Datastax | Cassandra | Apache 2.0 | 2010 | 2008 | Internet-Scale (Facebook) | $190 | 580 | $150 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | NoSQL Database | Open Core | http://cassandra.apache.org/ | Matt Pfeil | Jonathan Ellis | |||||||||
17 | Elastic | ElasticSearch | Apache 2.0 | 2012 | 2010 | Personal project | $272 | 1,600 | $400 | $5.0 | $2.5B | Public | Independent | IPO | 10/5/18 | Distributed Search Index + Tools | Open Core | Lucene in ASF (basis for ElasticSearch) | Shay Bannon | Steve Schuurman | Simon Willnauer | Uri Boness | ||||
18 | Fastly | Varnish | BSD | 2011 | 2006 | Internet-Scale (Verdens Gang) | $220 | 550 | $200 | $2.0 | $2B+ | Public | Independent | IPO | 5/18/19 | CDN | Open Core | No | Artur Bergman | |||||||
19 | ForgeRock | OpenAM/IDM/DJ/IG | CDDL | 2010 | 2005 | Spin-out (Sun) | $235 | 670 | $200 | $2.0 | Private | Independent | Identity and Access Management | Open Core | No | Allan Foster | Lasse Andresen | Jonathan Scudder | Stein Myrseth | Hermann Svoren | Victor Ake | Steve Ferris | ||||
20 | GitHub | Git | GPL v2 | 2009 | 2005 | Personal project | $350 | 1,550 | $400 | $7.5 | $7.50 | Public (via MSFT) | Acquired | M&A | 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 | ||||
21 | GitLab | Git | GPL v2 | 2014 | 2011 | Personal project | $436 | 1,300 | $100 | $5.0 | Private | Independent | Distributed Source Code Version Control | Open Core | https://git-scm.com/sfc | Sid Sijbrandij | Dmitriy Zaporozhets | |||||||||
22 | HashiCorp | Many | MPLv2 | 2012 | 2010 | Personal project | $350 | 950 | $150 | $5.1 | Private | Independent | Developer / Ops / Infra Tools | Open Core | No | Mitchell Hashimoto | Armon Dadgar | |||||||||
23 | Instructure | Canvas | AGPL v3 | 2008 | 2011 | Company project | $90 | 1,420 | $220 | $1.4 | $0.65 | Public | Independent | IPO | 11/13/2015 | Learning Management | Open Core | No | Brian Whitmer | Devlin Daley | ||||||
24 | JetBrains | IntelliJ | Apache 2.0 | 2000 | 2009 | Company project | - | 800 | $350 | $4.0 | Private | Independent | Developer Tools | Open Core | No | Sergey Dmitriev | Valentin Kipyatkov | Eugene Belyaev | ||||||||
25 | JFrog | Artifactory | AGPL v3 | 2008 | 2007 | Company project | $230 | 460 | $150 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Software Artifact Repository | Open Core | No | Fred Simon | Shlomi Ben Haim | Yoav Landman | ||||||||
26 | Kaltura | Kaltura | AGPL v3 | 2006 | 2009 | Company project | $166.00 | 530 | $200 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Video Editing Platform | Open Core | No | Michal Tsur | Shay David | Ron Yekutiel | ||||||||
27 | Liferay | Liferay Portal | LGPL v2.1+ | 2004 | 2000 | Company project | 870 | $250 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | Enterprise Portal | Open Core | No | Brian Chan | Brian Kim | Bryan Cheung | Caris Chan | ||||||||
28 | Magento Commerce | Magento | OSL v3, AFL v3 | 2007 | 2008 | Company project (Varien) | $272 | 700 | $200 | $1.7 | $1.68 | Public (via Adobe) | Acquired | M&A | 5/20/18 | Web Content Mgmt System | Open Core | No | Roy Rubin | Yoav Kutner | ||||||
29 | Mapbox | Mapbox GL JS | BSD-3 | 2010 | 2010 | Company project (DevelopmentSeed) | $275 | 450 | $100 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Mapping Software | Open Core | No | Eric Gundersen | ||||||||||
30 | Mirantis | OpenStack | Apache 2.0 | 1999 | 2010 | Academia/Research (NASA) | $227 | 500 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Infrastructure Software | Open Core | https://www.openstack.org/foundation/ | Adrian Ionel | Alex Freedland | Boris Renski | ||||||||
31 | MongoDB (fka 10gen) | MongoDB | SSPL (not OSI) | 2007 | 2009 | Spin-out (10gen) | $311 | 1,500 | $400 | $9.0 | $1.60 | Public | Independent | IPO | 10/19/17 | NoSQL Database | Open Core | No | Eliot Horowitz | Dwight Merriman | Kevin P. Ryan | |||||
32 | Mozilla Corporation | Firefox | MPLv2 | 2003 | 2002 | Spin-out (Netscape) | $22 | 1,100 | $550 | $5.0 | Private | Independent | Web Browser | Ads/Royalties | https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/ | Mitchell Baker | Brendan Eich | |||||||||
33 | MuleSoft | Mule ESB | CPAL | 2006 | 2003 | Personal project | $311 | 1,750 | $700 | $8.0 | $6.50 | Public (via SFDC) | Acquired | IPO + M&A | 3/20/18 | Middleware | Open Core | No | Ross Mason | Dave Rosenberg | ||||||
34 | MySQL AB | MySQL | GPL v2 | 1995 | 1995 | Company project | $41 | 800 | $1,000 | $1.1 | $1.10 | Public (via Oracle) | Acquired | M&A | 2/26/08 | Relational Database | Open Core | No | Michael "Monty" Widenius | David Axmark | Allan Larsson | |||||
35 | Neo4j | Neo4j | GPLv3 | 2007 | 2007 | Company Project | $160 | 300 | $100 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Graph Database | Open Core | No | Emil Eifrem | Johan Svensson | Peter Neubauer | ||||||||
36 | Nicira | Open vSwitch | Apache 2.0 | 2007 | 2009 | Academia/Research (Stanford) | $42 | 100 | $2,000 | $1.3 | $1.26 | Public (via VMware) | Acquired | M&A | 7/23/12 | SDN / Network Virtualization | Open Core | http://openvswitch.org/ | Martin Casado | Ben Pfaff | Nick McKeown | Scott Shenker | ||||
37 | Odoo | Odoo | LGPL v3 | 2005 | 2005 | Company project | $105 | 950 | $250 | $1.5 | Private | Independent | Business Applications | Open Core | https://odoo-community.org/ | Fabien Pinckaers | ||||||||||
38 | Pentaho | Pentaho | Apache 2.0 | 2004 | 2004 | Company project | $75 | 670 | $100 | $1.0 | $0.50 | Public (via Hitachi) | Acquired | M&A | 6/4/15 | BI/ETL | Open Core | No | James Dixon | Doug Moran | Marc Batchelor | Richard Daley | ||||
39 | Pivotal (Now VMware Tanzu) | CloudFoundry | Apache 2.0 | 2013 | 2009 | Company project (VMware) | $1,700 | 2,400 | $800 | $3.5 | $4.00 | Public | Acquired | IPO | 4/20/18 | PaaS / Hadoop / Spring | Open Core | https://www.cloudfoundry.org/foundation/ | Paul Maritz | Rob Mee | Scott Yara | Bill Cook | ||||
40 | Puppet Labs | Puppet | Apache 2.0 | 2005 | 2005 | Company project | $142 | 560 | $250 | $2.5 | Private | Independent | Configuration Management | Open Core | No | Luke Kanies | ||||||||||
41 | Rapid7 | Metasploit | BSD-3 | 2000 | 2003 | Personal project | $89 | 1,800 | $350 | $2.5 | $0.90 | IPO | IPO | IPO | 7/22/15 | Security | Open Core | Tas Giakouminakis | Alan Matthews | Chad Loder | ||||||
42 | Red Hat | Linux | GPL v2 | 1993 | 1991 | Personal project | $5 | 13,100 | $3,500 | $34.5 | $34.00 | Public | Acquired | IPO + M&A | 8/11/99 | OS, Middleware, Infrastructure Software | Support Subscriptions | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ | Bob Young | Marc Ewing | ||||||
43 | Linden Lab | Second Life | LGPL | 1999 | 2003 | Company project | $19 | 250 | $100 | $0.5 | Private | Independent | Virtual Worlds | Open Core | No | Philip Rosedale | ||||||||||
44 | Sourcefire | Snort | GPL v2 | 2001 | 1998 | Personal project | $40 | 600 | $500 | $3.0 | $2.70 | Public (via Cisco) | Acquired | M&A | 10/7/13 | Network Intrusion Detection | Open Core | No | Martin Roesch | |||||||
45 | SugarCRM | SugarCRM | Previously A2.0 | 2004 | 2004 | Company project | $146 | 440 | $175 | $1.0 | Private | PE | PE | 8/20/18 | CRM | Previously Open Core | No | John Roberts | Jacob Taylor | Clint Oram | ||||||
46 | SUSE | Linux Kernel | GPL v2 | 1992 | 1991 | Personal project | - | 1,500 | $400 | $2.5 | $2.50 | Public (via Novell) + Private (MicroFocus/PE) + PE (EQT) | M&A | 11/4/03 | Operating System (Linux) | Support Subscriptions | https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ | Hubert Mantel | Roland Dyroff | Thomas Fehr | Burchard Steinbild | |||||
47 | Talend | Talend Data Integration | Apache 2.0 | 2005 | 2006 | Company project | $102 | 1,300 | $200 | $2.0 | $0.55 | Public | Independent | IPO | 7/28/16 | SOA/ETL/AI/Middleware | Open Core | No | Bertrand Diard | Fabrice Bonan | ||||||
48 | VA Linux (Geeknet) | Linux | GPL v2 | 1993 | 1991 | Personal project | $30 | 300 | $120 | $0.2 | $0.15 | Private | Acquired | IPO | 12/9/99 | Computer Systems | Hardware Sales | No, pre-LF | Larry Augustin | |||||||
49 | WP Engine | Wordpress | GPL v2 | 2010 | 2003 | Personal project | $291 | 900 | $200 | $1.0 | Private | Independent | Content Management System | Open Core | https://wordpressfoundation.org/ | Jason Cohen | Cullen Wilson | Ben Metcalfe | ||||||||
50 | $10,895 | 53,320 | $17,465 | $149.1 | $69.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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