Top Open Source Startups in 2024

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

Institute of Free Technology provides the Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects. Currently our growing portfolio includes Status, Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Nomos, Keycard. More about each project, here: free.technology As a team, IFT is completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

Setara Networks Worldwide strive to bridge the need for access to financial digitization for all parties, which creates a more open and interactive financial ecosystem. Tara framework is a thriving partner ecosystem that offers a technology platform designed for Banks, Acquirer/Payment Gateways, Merchants and Brands to participate as members to allow most economical and frictionless payment & transfer experience to their users. We are building solutions that keep the consumer at the heart of the experience and envision shaping it in the direction of endless possibilities. Unleashing the full financial potential using the platform opens endless opportunities for Startups, Fintechs & other Businesses. Indepay Open Transfer platform is the most convenient & economical digital payment option. Setara Networks offers payment products like One-click Checkout, Real time Payments and much more. It is designed to fuel the transformation of the digital payment landscape and is in the process of creating the much-needed revolution in South East Asia (SEA) payment industry. We are one of the leading innovators in the Fintech space in South-East Asia, empowering the community with the benefits of financial inclusion by bringing everyone to be part of the future-ready revolution of getting cash-free transactions. The seamless payment system works around a unique identity that intrinsically maps the customer’s mobile number with multiple sources of funds like bank accounts, e-money, debit cards & credit cards as Payment Identity (Pay-ID). Pay-ID also empowers users to build their digital presence and helps to maintain security and consent-based control over their financial data. It facilitates the users to get over the worries of maintaining multiple bank apps, internet banking user IDs, debit cards, credit cards and e-money apps. Our goal is to make digital payments so fast, convenient, secure & universally accepted that people never feel the need to carry cash or cards again

Privacy is possible. Signal Messenger makes it easy. At Signal, our goal is to develop open source privacy technology that protects privacy rights, promotes free expression and enables secure global communication. We believe that private messaging should be simple and ubiquitous. Signal combines state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption with the features that users expect in a modern messaging application. Millions of people use Signal every day to speak freely, and a growing list of organizations have integrated the open source Signal Protocol into messaging platforms that support billions of users.

Evil Martians is a distributed product development consultancy that works with startups and established businesses, and creates open source-based products and services. Offices in New York, Porto, and Osaka. Clients trust us to be the core technical team behind their startups, delivering all elements of successful product work: user interface design backed by analytics, agile software development, infrastructure administration, and service reliability. We pay extra attention to mentoring, making sure that the practices we bring in are adopted by the internal team before our collaboration is over. Our projects typically span years, not months. See more at evilmartians.com and check out our blog at evilmartians.com/chronicles.

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.

Valuebound is a professionally managed, rapidly growing, CMS development company actively involved in developing content management solutions for Media, Publishing, and High-Tech industries apart from other large enterprises in various sectors. We focus on fixing the business & revenue model, streamlining marketing strategy and improving the user experience. Having a well-designed CMS ensures that your content remains up-to-date, SEO optimized, drive website traffic and streamline workflow. With a team of 50+ Drupal developers and offices in North America and Asia, we cater to over 100+ clients across Asia, Australia and United States. The consulting expertise that our Drupal specialists bring in is well-reflected in the thought partnership we share with our clients while developing an enterprise level project.We follow the Agile Scrum methodology, which helps us in creating a collaborative environment that includes our clientele as well. This approach has created avenues for an increased visibility and effective brainstorming during the project development phase. We at Valuebound specialize in CMS Development focusing on Drupal and enterprise CMS, 3rd party integration, Drupal Support, Product Consulting and Management, Migration to Drupal, Drupal Performance Tuning and QA practice for Drupal Projects. Our team of experts will coordinate closely with your efforts to breathe life into your projects.

We are a nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects. Our media platform has more than 53 million unique files, and more than 1 billion unique devices visit our platforms each and every month.

TensorZero is building an open-source data & learning flywheel for LLMs that unifies: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation: built-in A/B testing, routing, fallbacks Our goal is to help engineers build, manage, and optimize the next generation of LLM applications: AI systems that learn from real-world experience. github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero

Sigmoid is a Leading Data Solutions company offering best-in-class services in Data Engineering and Data Science. Our 200+ team is strongly driven by the passion to unravel data complexities. We generate actionable insights and translate them into successful business strategies. We are a team of inventors, dreamers and creators who are passionate about Data! We leverage our expertise in Open Source, Cloud Technologies, ML and AI to develop innovative frameworks catering to specific client needs. Our unique approach has positively influenced the business performance of our Fortune 1000 clients across the globe. We have a particularly strong presence in Advertising Technology, Retail-CPG and BFSI, wherein we are working with Top-3 players in each of these sectors. We are recognised among the world's most innovative tech companies, and have won several awards like the TiE50 Winners (2018) and NASSCOM Emerge 50 (2017), among others. Backed by Sequoia and Qualcomm Ventures