Top Open Source Startups in 2026

Acquia empowers enterprises with cloud-based solutions to create & maintain killer web experiences with the open-source social publishing system Drupal. ► The Acquia Network is the ultimate Drupal management suite. Try it free for 30 days: bit.ly/yxUbKO ► Acquia Cloud gives you the simplicity you want with the reliability & scalability you demand: bit.ly/xVDm7D ► Drupal Gardens is a SaaS platform that makes building Drupal websites easier than ever before: bit.ly/A4YSyd

Imply is building a next generation data analytics platform based off of the Druid open source project

We believe ML is going to be the most impactful technology ever created. We are leading the field, building products and technologies that millions of people and thousands of companies are using every day. To apply to Hugging Face, check out our jobs at hf.co/jobs!

At Giskard, we are building the first collaborative & open-source Quality Assurance platform for AI models that complies with upcoming AI regulations & standards. Founded in 2021, we are an emerging leader in the new market of AI Quality. Giskard helps AI & Business teams collaborate to evaluate & test AI models. We help organizations increase the efficiency of their AI development workflow, eliminate risks of AI biases and ensure robust, reliable & ethical AI models. Our platform is used by dozens of AI teams across industries, both at enterprise companies & startups. We recently raised our first round of 1.5 million euros, led by Elaia, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and notable angel investors. To read more about this fundraising and how it will accelerate our growth, you can read: giskard.ai/knowledge/news-fundraising-2022 We are assembling a team of champions, and we help each other achieve high standards & goals!

Securing the software development process, with a focus on improving developer velocity.

Our mission: to connect every system in the world! Tyk is an open-source API Gateway that is fast, scalable and modern. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard. SaaS, On-premises or Multi-Cloud? API Gateways require low latency, scalability, performance and reliability whilst minimising your total cost of ownership. We have designed Tyk Platform to work for your services, your team and your budget. With Tyk, you can focus on creating services instead of implementing management infrastructure. From completely isolated, on-premises installations to SaaS and Multi-Cloud deployments,m we have API gateway options that match your needs. With Tyk, you can focus on creating services instead of implementing management infrastructure.

Founded in 2012, smartthings gives people power to monitor, control, and automate their homes from wherever they are through a single mobile app. smartthings is based in mountain view, california and operates independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of samsung electronics.

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

Clover is building the open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform. We partner with the world's largest payment processors, developers, and hardware manufacturers to bring point-of-sale products to market. We use Android as the client platform, which enables the use of inexpensive devices, both off-the-shelf and purpose-built.

PingCAP is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By building TiDB, a globally scalable hybrid transactional and analytical database and one of the most popular open source database in the world (don’t take our word for it, check it out: github.com/pingcap/tidb), which enables companies to painlessly scale their business while keeping the underlying infrastructure simple. Our product has been trusted and verified by web-scale application leaders and adopted by over 1500 users across industries. We’re being led by the best in the space—our founders were the original creators of TiDB. We’re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the database for the future! PingCAP is founded by the team that built TiDB, a world leading open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL/NewSQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics, which is compatible with MySQL, and enables companies to painlessly scale their business while keeping the underlying infrastructure simple and serve as a one-stop solution for all online transactions and analysis. We have raised US$342M in total for the past 6 years, and are the most valued NewSQL company on the planet! Our products have been trusted by large scale industry leaders and adopted by over 1500 companies across different industries, including Square, PayPay, Webank, Hulu, Booking.com, Dailymotion, Shopee, Zomato, VNG, Tencent, Xiaomi, Oppo, etc.We’re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the database for the future! Community: · Twitter: twitter.com/PingCAP · GitHub: github.com/pingcap/tidb · Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tidb · LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/pingcap · Community Slack: pingcap.com/tidbslack