Top Open Source Startups in 2027

Starburst is the analytics engine for all your data. We provide the fastest, most efficient analytics engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or Data Mesh. We unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for data-driven organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the existing tools that work for their business. Trusted by companies like Comcast, FINRA, and Condé Nast, Starburst helps companies make better decisions faster on all data.

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!

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.

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

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.

Upbound is the industry’s first platform for building internal cloud platforms. Designed around control planes, Upbound offers a new methodology for building an internal cloud platform, purpose-built for your organization. Customers can quickly build, deploy, manage, secure, and use their platforms all from a single point of control.

Gitcoin creates solutions that empower communities to fund, build, and protect what matters. Through our Gitcoin Grants program, we've distributed over $54m to early stage builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, open source and beyond. Our core products include Gitcoin Grants Stack, our end-to-end grants solution, Allo Protocol, our open-source funding protocol, and Gitcoin Passport, our decentralized identity management tool.

We are a venture-backed tech startup with headquarters in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower) but our team is distributed across 8 timezones and we have a remote-first work culture - and not just because of Covid. Working on developer tools and open-source technology is part of our DNA. We are the maintainers of several open-source projects in the Kubernetes space: 1. vcluster - Virtual Kubernetes Clusters: vcluster.com (certified Kubernetes distribution) 2. DevSpace - Docker-Compose But For Kubernetes: devspace.sh 3. kiosk - Multi-Tenancy Extension for Kubernetes: kiosk.sh (AWS security best practice for EKS) 4. jsPolicy - Kubernetes Policies using JavaScript & TypeScript: jspolicy.com Our commercial product is called Loft (loft.sh) and brings all our open-source projects together in one platform which enables high-velocity engineering teams to move faster when building cloud-native software. Most of our customers are startup unicorns and Fortune 500 companies.