Best Open Source Companies in California, United States
The 366 best Open Source companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Databricks.
Ranked: Best Open Source companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Databricks 🦄 Data and AI platform that unifies analytics 97Fin. health top 11%Market top 12%Innovation top 15%AI top 15% All 14 signals ▾Fin. healthtop 11% Markettop 12% Innovationtop 15% AItop 15% Techtop 16% Talenttop 16% Fundingtop 17% Moattop 18% Patentstop 21% Growthtop 32% Newstop 32% Globaltop 36% Producttop 36% Partnersbottom 48% Fin. health: Revenue ~$2.6B Market: 3,299 employees (top 2% of Enterprise Infrastructure) · Revenue ~$2.6B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 97/100 | $3.6B | 4 mo ago | 3,299 | Andy Konwinski Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+43 | 231 patents Optimizing lakehouse queries, transactions, and ML-driven indexing for large-scale data processing. | 4 launchs · 1 award |
| 2 | Cloudera 🦄 Provider of hybrid data platform, data management, and AI solutions | $1.0B | 132 mo ago | 1,124 | Charles Sansbury CEO | LithiumMopinionApple iCloud Mail+28 | 188 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 award |
| 3 | Automattic 🦄 Developer of open-source content management system | $896M | 63 mo ago | 788 | Kinsey Wilson Founder and Head of Newspack | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+19 | 2 patents Website botnet detection and mitigation for network security | — |
| 4 | Neo4j 🦄 Provider of graph database management system and graph analytics platform | $581M | 56 mo ago | 435 435 → 1,044 (+140%) · sector median +42% | Emil Eifrem Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+39 | — | 1 launch |
| 5 | Docker 🦄 Cloud based open source platform offering docker suite | $530M | 45 mo ago | 72 | Kamel Founadi Co-Founder | WordPress Site EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+46 | — | — |
| 6 | Confluent Provider of a platform for data streaming and event processing | $456M | 73 mo ago | 25 | Jay Kreps Co-Founder & CEO | ContentfulApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+34 | 38 patents Real-time data streaming platforms with AI-driven query, schema management, and low‑latency event processing | — |
| 7 | Gitlab Provider of a platform for software development, security, and delivery | $435M | 45 mo ago | 699 | Sid Sijbrandij Co-Founder & CEO | — | 34 patents Automation and security of software development pipelines, including code testing and vulnerability analysis. | 2 launchs |
| 8 | Dremio 🦄 Cloud based analytical processing and data lake engine for businesses | $420M | 52 mo ago | 340 | Tomer Shiran Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressSentry+46 | 19 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 9 | HashiCorp 🦄 AI based cloud infrastructure management solutions | $349M | 75 mo ago | 2,200 2,200 → 2,210 (+0%) · sector median +42% | Armon Dadgar Co-Founder and CTO | DatoCMSSentryApple iCloud Mail+31 | 84 patents Automating, securing, and managing multi-cloud infrastructure and zero‑trust networking | — |
| 10 | PingCAP 🦄 Cloud-based platform offering distributed NewSQL databases | $342M | 58 mo ago | 550 | Dylan Cui Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+42 | — | — |
| 11 | Corelight Provider of criminal intelligence andd analytics platform for public safety | $310M | 25 mo ago | 306 | Vern Paxson Co-Founder | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | 17 patents SSH session authentication and keystroke analysis for network traffic classification | 1 launch |
| 12 | DataStax 🦄 Provider of data management and AI application development infrastructure solutions | $305M | 45 mo ago | 422 422 → 300 (-29%) · sector median +42% | — | SanitySentryApple iCloud Mail+43 | 39 patents Distributed database streaming, cloud deployment configuration, and trie-based indexing for NoSQL systems | — |
| 13 | YugabyteDB 🦄 Open source cloud native database for enterprises | $291M | 57 mo ago | 479 | Kannan Muthukkaruppan Co-Founder & Co-CEO | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+26 | 6 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 14 | Anyscale 🦄 Provider of an AI-based open source framework for building distributed applications | $260M | 56 mo ago | 97 | Philipp Moritz Co-founder and CTO | ContentfulSentryNode.js+25 | 3 patents Improving container startup speed with block storage and cloud‑based development environments | — |
| 15 | H2O AI 🦄 Provider of an open-source machine learning platform | $251M | 55 mo ago | 374 | Sri Ambati Co-Founder & CEO | Adobe Experience ManagerJavaAdobe Client Data Layer+22 | 46 patents Machine learning model creation, optimization, and interpretability for AI-driven software applications. | 2 awards |
| 16 | Couchbase AI powered dbaas for enterprises | $251M | 72 mo ago | 359 359 → 864 (+141%) · sector median +42% | Bj Schaknowski Chief Executive Officer | DrupalApple iCloud MailPHP+27 | 47 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 17 | Kong 🦄 Cloud based API management and microservices connectivity platform 84Tech top 18%Patents top 20%Funding top 21%Moat top 22% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 18% Patentstop 20% Fundingtop 21% Moattop 22% Innovationtop 30% Markettop 33% Globaltop 37% Growthtop 38% Talenttop 38% Producttop 41% Newsbottom 21% Tech: 76 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Patents: 188 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 44 filings since 2022 vs 44 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 84/100 | $249M | 18 mo ago | 128 | Marco Palladino Co-Founder & CTO | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | 188 patents AI-driven API gateway and microservices orchestration for intelligent query routing and documentation | — |
| 18 | CloudBees 🦄 Provider of software delivery platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery | $241M | 54 mo ago | 510 | Mic Neale Chief Scientist and Co-founder | SkilljarApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | 3 patents Continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline orchestration and non‑disruptive software deployment | — |
| 19 | MariaDB Provider of dbaas platform for enterprises | $237M | 52 mo ago | 63 | Rohit Souza CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+32 | — | 1 launch |
| 20 | Sentry 🦄 Provider of application performance monitoring and error tracking software solutions | $217M | 49 mo ago | 232 232 → 453 (+95%) · sector median +42% | Chris Jennings Co-Founder | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+21 | 22 patents Transformer rapid depressurization and explosion mitigation vent systems | 1 launch |
| 21 | Airbyte 🦄 Developer of a platform for data integration and movement | $181M | 54 mo ago | 82 | Michel Tricot Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowGSAPSwiper+31 | 2 patents Data integration connectors for ETL/ELT pipelines. | — |
| 22 | Aerospike Open source based NoSQL database platform for enterprises | $171M | 18 mo ago | 226 | — | ContentfulSentryZendesk+28 | — | 2 launchs |
| 23 | InfluxData Developer of a time series database platform for various applications | $171M | 40 mo ago | 181 181 → 170 (-6%) · sector median +42% | Paul Dix Cofounder and CTO | WordPressContentfulApple iCloud Mail+37 | — | 5 launchs |
| 24 | Teleport 🦄 Provider of unified identity platform securing classic and AI infrastructure | $169M | 49 mo ago | 46 | Alexander Klizhentas Co-Founder & CTO | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+33 | — | — |
| 25 | Medsphere Systems Open-source software provider for healthcare organizations | $151M | 55 mo ago | 352 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+33 | — | — |
| 26 | Neon Developer of open-source-based cloud-native PostgreSQL | $131M | 22 mo ago | 63 | Stas Kelvich Co-Founder | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+21 | 3 patents AI-driven selection of high‑valence images for affective computing and content recommendation | 1 launch |
| 27 | Particle Developer of a prototype to production connectivity platform for IoT 55Tech top 23%Funding top 24%Customers top 24%News top 30% All 12 signals ▾Techtop 23% Fundingtop 24% Customerstop 24% Newstop 30% Moattop 35% Growthtop 40% Producttop 47% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 47% Patentsbottom 39% Globalbottom 39% Innovationbottom 35% Tech: 67 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $130M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 12 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $130M | 15 mo ago | 109 109 → 110 (+1%) · sector median +42% | Zach Supalla Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifyApple iCloud Mail+31 | 5 patents Pharma skin‑inflammation formulations, audio speaker hardware, VR headset devices, graphic‑design software. | 1 launch |
| 28 | WSO2 Provider of open-source platform for API management, integration, and identity | $130M | 48 mo ago | 10 | Paul Fremantle Co-Founder & CTO | DrupalApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | — | — |
| 29 | Platform9 Provider of container development and management platform | $100M | 48 mo ago | 64 | Sirish Raghuram Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+42 | 4 patents Cloud workload orchestration and private cloud-as-a-service provisioning platforms | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 30 | Rasa Developer of a platform for building and deploying AI agent solutions | $71M | 28 mo ago | 26 | Alexander Weidauer Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+29 | — | — |
| 31 | Espresso Systems Provider of a blockchain-based privacy solution for web3 applications | $60M | 26 mo ago | 29 | Ben Fisch Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityWebflowUmami+14 | — | 1 launch |
| 32 | Replicate Provider of a cloud-based open-source platform for machine learning models | $58M | 35 mo ago | 3 | Andreas Jansson Cofounder | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+10 | — | — |
| 33 | Canoo Developer of multiple categories of electric vehicles | $55M | 32 mo ago | 1,584 | Ulrich Kranz Co-Founder & CEO | — | 22 patents Modular electric vehicle platform: integrated battery enclosure, rectangular-slot motors, suspension, and control systems | — |
| 34 | Dagster AI-based data preparation and integration software solution provider | $47M | 36 mo ago | 33 | Pete Hunt CEO | TurbopackNode.jsTailwind CSS+26 | — | — |
| 35 | PostHog 🦄 Cloud based product analytics tools 72Funding top 23%Tech top 23%Moat top 31%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Techtop 23% Moattop 31% Growthtop 35% Newstop 37% Talenttop 38% Partnerstop 41% Markettop 47% Globalbottom 36% Funding: Raised $39.0M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 6 yrs (1.2/yr) Tech: 56 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $39M | 8 mo ago | 36 | Tim Glaser Co-Founder & CTO | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+29 | — | 1 launch |
| 36 | FOSSA Provider of software composition analysis platform for managing open source components | $39M | 32 mo ago | 33 33 → 60 (+82%) · sector median +42% | Kevin Wang Founder & CEO | Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+26 | — | — |
| 37 | Dify Developer of platform for building and managing autonomous agents and workflows | $30M | 3 mo ago | — | John Wang Co-Founder | TurbopackSentryNode.js+16 | — | 3 launchs |
| 38 | LiveKit Developer of open-source platform for building and scaling realtime voice agents 72AI top 20%Funding top 27%Growth top 28%News top 28% All 9 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 27% Growthtop 28% Newstop 28% Techtop 31% Talenttop 38% Moattop 48% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $29.3M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 4 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $29M | 4 mo ago | 15 | Russell Sa Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+17 | — | 3 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 39 | Fleet Device Management Provider of open-source software to manage data from devices | $25M | 13 mo ago | 46 | Zach Wasserman Co-Founder | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+30 | — | — |
| 40 | Tobiko Data Platform building tools to support data development | $22M | 24 mo ago | 9 | Tobias Mao Co-Founder and CTO | WebflowGSAPcore-js+19 | — | — |
| 41 | Foxglove Provider of visualization and debugging solutions for robotics | $19M | 8 mo ago | 31 | Roman Shtylman Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+14 | — | — |
| 42 | Forward Commerce Provider of embedded payment solutions and support for software platforms | $16M | 24 mo ago | — | — | Cart FunctionalitySentryApple iCloud Mail+15 | — | — |
| 43 | Fern Provider of SaaS-based open-source format for APIs | $13M | 14 mo ago | 2 | — | WebflowRiveStripe+16 | — | 1 launch |
| 44 | Sidero Provider of Kubernetes platforms and related support and service offerings | $8M | 20 mo ago | 7 | Steve Francis CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 4 patents Enables mesh VPN networking across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. | — |
| 45 | FlowFuse Open-source low-code programming tool | $7M | 12 mo ago | 13 | Nick O’Leary Founder | YouTubeTailwind CSSStripe+19 | — | — |
| 46 | Promptfoo Open-source tool to test AI applications | $5M | 11 mo ago | — | Ian W Co-Founder & CEO | DocusaurusReactKnockout.js+14 | — | — |
| 47 | SubImage Open source based cloud infrastructure visualization platform 16Funding top 39%Talent bottom 49%Tech bottom 40%Global bottom 33% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 39% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 40% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $4.7M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 16/100 | $5M | 6 mo ago | — | Alex Chantavy Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailNode.js+11 | — | — |
| 48 | Klavis AI Open-source infrastructure for building, scaling, and integrating Multiple Context Protocol (MCP) solutions… | $500K | 12 mo ago | — | Zihao Lin Co-Founder | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+12 | — | — |
| 49 | superglue Open source based data integration platform | $500K | 12 mo ago | — | Adina Goerres Co-Founder | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+8 | — | — |
| 50 | Continue Developer of AI agents that suggest code improvements on pull requests | $500K | 15 mo ago | — | Ty Dunn Co-Founder & CPO | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+20 | — | — |
Top 12 Open Source companies in California
#1
Series K · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 3299 employees$3.6Braised▾
Data and AI platform that unifies analytics. Its main site highlights building apps, agents, and AI on your data, with pricing based on pay-as-you-go usage. The platform offers data management, warehousing, engineering, and science capabilities. It facilitates data sharing, governance, and application development. The platform supports business intelligence and database functionalities.
- Jan 2026Conventional Debt$2B
- Dec 2025Unattributed$5B
- Sep 2025Series K$1B
- Jan 2025Conventional Debt$5.2B
#2
Seed · Menlo Park, California · founded 2023$30Mraised▾
Developer of platform for building and managing autonomous agents and workflows. The platform offers tools for developing, deploying, and managing autonomous agents and RAG pipelines. It provides features such as integrations, observability, and the ability to connect to various large language models. The platform supports the creation of AI applications through visual workflows and offers options for publishing and integration with other systems.
- Mar 2026Seed$30M
- Mar 2025Angel—
#3
Series C · Saratoga, California · founded 2021 · 15 employees$29.3Mraised▾
Developer of open-source platform for building and scaling realtime voice agents. The platform provides APIs and tools for creating applications with voice and video capabilities. It offers infrastructure for managing concurrent calls, turn detection, and integration with telephony systems. The platform supports self-hosting or deployment to a cloud environment.
- Jan 2026Series C$100M
- Apr 2025Series B$45M
- Mar 2024Series A$22M
- Sep 2022Series A$7.3M
#4
PostHog 🦄Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 36 employees$39Mraised▾
Cloud based product analytics tools. Features of the product include user behavior analysis, analyzation of trends, funnels, retention, and cohorts, compatibility, data access, and more. It also provides data retention, supports SSO SAML, exports to data lakes, pricing models, analytics stack, and more.
- Sep 2025Series E$75M
- Jun 2025Series D$70M
- Jun 2025Series C$10M
- Jun 2021Series B$15M
#5
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2011 · 109 employees$129.9Mraised▾
Developer of a prototype to production connectivity platform for IoT. Its Photon Wi-Fi and the Electron 2G3G cellular are primary prototyping platforms for integrating connectivity into devices. The product is primarily aimed at designers and developers rather than at enterprises.
- Mar 2025Series C$5M
- Dec 2022Series C$12.2M
- Nov 2021Series C$30M
- Nov 2019Series C$40M
#6
Kong 🦄Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 128 employees$249.3Mraised▾
Cloud based API management and microservices connectivity platform. It operates through RESTful API and is built on NGINX. It inspects and monitors APIs and microservice traffic. It provides ready to deploy plugins and adds functionality to APIs and applications. It also offers the flexibility to run on the cloud of the users choice such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud. It has clients such as Cisco, GSK, Paypal, etc.
- Nov 2024Series E—
- Aug 2024Series D$80M
- Dec 2020Series D$100M
- Dec 2018Series C$43M
#7
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 31 employees$18.7Mraised▾
Provider of visualization and debugging solutions for robotics. It allows users to use customizable layouts for the arrangement of interactive visualizations and understanding the activities of robots. It provides built-in panels for displaying robots in 3D, plotting message values, publishing messages, displaying messages, tracking, and detecting state transitions.
- Sep 2025Series B$40M
- Oct 2022Series A$15M
- Jan 2022Seed$3.7M
#8
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 226 employees$171Mraised▾
Open source based NoSQL database platform for enterprises. It offers a distributed NoSQL database optimized for storage with key-value store architecture for real-time web applications. The platform processes transactions, documents, graphs, and vectors for real time operations and decisioning.
- Dec 2024Conventional Debt$30M
- Apr 2024Series E$109M
- Nov 2019Series D$32M
- Jul 2014Series C$20M
#9
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$4.7Mraised▾
Open source based cloud infrastructure visualization platform. It is a software company that provides a tool for organizations to map their infrastructure, highlighting potential attack paths and weak points that could lead to sensitive data exposure. The platform aims to give security teams visibility and focus on the most critical risks. The platform helps organizations improve their security posture by identifying vulnerabilities and prioritizing remediation efforts.
- Nov 2025Seed$4.2M
- 2025Seed$500K
#10
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 46 employees$25Mraised▾
Provider of open-source software to manage data from devices. The platform enables users to collect and control data for servers, PCs, and laptops. Its offering includes inventory management tools, data collaboration tools, monitoring tools, and deployment tools. Offers a subscription-based pricing model.
- May 2025Series B$27.9M
- Apr 2022Series A$20M
- Jan 2022Seed$5M
#11
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2021 · 63 employees$130.6Mraised▾
Developer of open-source cloud-native Postgres designed to create a cloud-native database service for developers. The company's system separates storage and computes to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage, as well as offer, features such as reliability, auto-backup, and open-source, enabling SaaS companies to enhance engineering velocity and reduce cost.
#12
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2022 · 2 employees$12.9Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-based open-source format for APIs. It offers a platform to update the SDKs and documentation with API changes. It generates the types and networking logic and presents a postman collection, with successful and unsuccessful requests.
- Apr 2025Series A$9M
- 2023Seed$500K
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