Open Core Ventures
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OCV starts companies around open source software projects.
San Francisco
Joined August 2021
We’re excited to announce the Open Source Project Sponsorship Program, an initiative to help OS authors grow projects with commercial potential. The program offers funding and guidance to accelerate project momentum. Learn more and apply here →
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OCV launches the Catalyst Program to help open-source authors grow sustainable projects with funding, strategy, and marketing support. Apply now.
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We’re excited to share our newest company, @RamaLamaLabs! 🚀 . RamaLama Labs is Chainguard for LLMs. It simplifies compliance by offering a catalog of provably untampered LLMs, packaged in hardened containers that companies trust.
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Open Core Ventures (OCV) is proud to announce the launch of RamaLama Labs, a platform that brings enterprise-grade container lifecycle management to LLM deployments, built on open source ramalama.
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Creator of @Kubetail and YC alum Andres Morey: "Open source is having its Internet moment." His latest project, @Kubetail, is a lightweight, browser-based logging dashboard for Kubernetes. He recently completed OCV's Catalyst program, increasing the.
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YC alum Andres Morey sees parallels between 2007 internet skepticism and today's Open Core doubts. His Kubetail project's growth in Catalyst indicates open source companies are starting to have their
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We recently held a roundtable with OCV's founder.@sytses discussing strategies for building a venture-scale open core company. Read all the takeaways here:
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There is no perfect playbook, but there are proven strategies you can use to build open core businesses that scale while maintaining the trust of the open source community.
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Congrats @p0deje on growing Alumnium 13X during the Catalyst program!. 👥 2 to 12 contributors .🌟 29 to 400 stars.🚀 Over 1,200 monthly downloads . Read Alex's story:
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OCV founders @zroubalik and Jeff Fernandez share their unconventional paths to becoming the co-founders of @kedifyio, and the future of autoscaling technology. 🔗
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OCV’s newest company @Gobii launches today 🚀.Gobii is an AI web agent platform built on the open source framework browser-use. Its web agents can monitor and complete web-based tasks on behalf of a user, bringing AI assistants to the web. Congratulations @ai_christianson on the
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RT @grapesjs: 🍇 Now Supporting Custom Fonts in Studio SDK! 🅰️ . Until now, the editor shipped with a limited set of system fonts like Arial….
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How is AI changing founder and first hire profiles? Your first hires should already be leveraging AI. Leveraging AI doesn't replace familiarity with code bases or passion for projects, but if engineers haven't experimented with agentic coding, that raises a red flag.
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RT @LuceniaIO: Lucenia 0.5.0 is live. RAG ✅.BYOM ✅.Natural language ✅.80% less memory ✅.Take back control of your enterprise search. Read t….
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Lucenia 0.5.0 delivers secure, AI-native search with RAG, BYOM, and 80% lower costs.
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🎊 We're proud to announce the launch of our newest company, @openCoreEMR! Built on the OS project @OpenEMR, OpenCoreEMR aims to address the critical infrastructure gap between small clinical practices and enterprise hospital systems.
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Building on top of the world’s leading open source electronic medical records system, OpenCoreEMR aims to create an open, intelligent, and predictive healthcare ecosystem.
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RT @grapesjs: 🍇 New in Studio SDK: Data Sources. Design dynamic, data-powered content, without writing a single line of code. With Data Sou….
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RT @authentikio: Release 2025.4 is here, with new configuration options for authentik Admins to further harden access control, support for….
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Read more about the latest authentik release, 2025.4.
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Bringing technical founders and experienced CEOs together is fundamental to our model. @MermaidChart.CTO Knut Sveidqvist & CEO Andrew Firestone are an inspiring example of what happens when you find a great founder match. Read more about their journey
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CTO Knut Sveidqvist and CEO Andrew Firestone share their journey in building Mermaid Chart from inception to a Seed-funded company.
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RT @locustio: New release! Improved support for JSON output, and some small fixes
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What's Changed Web UI: Use mutations for state buttons by @andrewbaldwin44 in #3120 fix error message to be idiomatically correct English by @davidxia in #3121 Add locust exporter import by @a...
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🎊 We're proud to announce the launch of our newest company @kernelize_ai! Built on the OS project Triton, Kernelize is a platform that targets AI accelerators to bridge the gap between AI software and hardware.
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Triton contributor Simon Waters joins as CTO to develop an end-to-end AI hardware accelerator platform.
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RT @MermaidChart: Huge thank you to Products That Count for recognizing @MermaidChart as one of 2025's most innovative products! https://t….
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Our first Catalyst project, RA.Aid, is wrapping up its final week in the program with impressive results! Congrats @ai_christianson on achieving 9X growth in 3 months! 🤯 .
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OCV’s first Catalyst project gets a massive boost in downloads and GitHub popularity. The open source AI coding agent combines research, planning, and implementation to help developers build software
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