Best Open Source Companies in China
The 31 best Open Source companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: 01.AI.
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Ranked: Best Open Source companies in China
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centcount Analytics Provider of open source website analytics software | — | — | Unfunded | Wm Jonssen Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Datafuse Labs Provider of cloud-based open source data platform | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | DeepSeek Open source based AI assistant for enterprises | — | — | Unfunded | Liang Wenfeng Founder & CEO | BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesAtlassian Statuspage+13 | Top 5k | — | — |
| 4 | Defiking Provider of a protocol container system for enterprises | — | — | Deadpooled | James Filbird CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | EMQ Provider of cloud and open-source data infrastructure solutions for IoT | — | — | Funding Raised | Susan Gao Co-Founder | Node.jsThree.jsTailwind CSS+11 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 6 | GitCafe Open source code hosting platform | — | — | Unfunded | Hailong Zhang Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | HYY Open source digital signage software | — | — | Deadpooled | Sara Lee Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Khadas Offers open source single board computer | — | — | Unfunded | Gouwa Founder & CEO | Wix eCommerceCart FunctionalityWix+16 | Top 5M | — | — |
Top 12 Open Source companies in China
#1
01.AI 🦄Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2023$300Mraised▾
Developer of enterprise large language model platform and AI agent solutions. The company focuses on AI technologies, platforms, and applications. It helps to manage human productivity through AI, creating economic and societal value. The company provides enterprise AI agent and LLM one-box solutions. It promotes AI-first applications and AI-empowered business models.
- Aug 2024Series D—
- Nov 2023Series D$300M
#2
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2009$107Mraised▾
Software development and source code management solutions provider. The features of the product include code management, project collaboration, integration with code and workflows, visible progress management, static code analysis, API docs generation, etc.
- Jun 2023Series B$107M
- Dec 2019Seed—
#3
Series F · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015 · 240 employees$284.2Mraised▾
XSKY is an open source based storage infrastructure solution platform. It provides users with two products X-EBS and X-CBS. X-EBS provides a distributed storage architecture. X-CBS provides a cloud-based block type storage solution. It claims to have improved performance, integration, reliability and scalability. It has raised Series A round of funding from Northern Light Venture Capital and Redpoint Capital.
- Dec 2021Series F$62.7M
- Sep 2021Series E$109.9M
- Jul 2020Series D$45.3M
- Apr 2018Series C$37.9M
#4
Series C · Guangzhou, Guangdong · founded 2014 · 108 employees$45.5Mraised▾
Gizwits is a Chinese IoT technology platform that connects home appliances and consumer electronics products to the internet and smartphones. GizWits provides IoT developers with data analytics modules as well as management tools such as remote access, notification, and Over the Air (OTA) firmware upgrades. As an open source platform, Gizwits provides developers with API access to create new applications. As of June 2015, it supports 3 million smart home devices or wearables. It launched a self-serve software development platform Gizwits 2.0 and a programmable microcontroller board GoKit, for smart home gadgets.
- Dec 2022Series C$14.3M
- Aug 2015Series B$31.2M
- Aug 2014Series A—
#5
Series A · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2018$18Mraised▾
Provider of distributed graph database solution. The company offers Nebula Graph, an open source and distributed graph database solution. The solution includes SQL, a SQL like query language and role based access control for security. The solution helps businesses gain insights from inter connected and large datasets.
- Sep 2022Series A—
- Dec 2020Series A$10M
- Jun 2020Seed$8M
#6
Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014 · 400 employees$129.4Mraised▾
EasyStack is an OpenStack cloud platform and service provider. The solution provides an open, stable and reliable cloud computing platform for business users. Products offered by the company are ECS EasyJet Cloud, ECS Stack EasyJet Cloud, and EKS EasyJet Cloud. EasyJet Cloud Enterprise Cloud is a cloud service platform for applications that provides a stable, reliable and flexible on-demand cloud computing software infrastructure for both steady-state and responsive business applications.
- Nov 2019Series D$14.3M
- Aug 2018Series C—
- May 2018Series C$47.1M
- Jan 2017Series C$50M
#7
Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2011 · 400 employees$80.5Mraised▾
Makeblock is an open source arduino robot building platform. Makeblock provides various mechanical parts and electronic modules to make a lot of designs, such as beams, plates, connectors, motors, brackets, sensors, drivers and controllers, etc. Makeblock is an integrated platform, mechanical parts of Makeblock are convenient to connect to each other, while the electronic modules works very well together with the mechanical parts. Products developed by the firm are available open source and allow easy adoption.
- Aug 2018Series C$44M
- Mar 2017Series B$30M
- Apr 2014Series A$6M
- Jun 2013Angel$486.8K
#8
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2013$15.4Mraised▾
Open Source Network Security is a provider of software systems for network security. The company offers an open source network security S-SDLC management platform, open-source network security gray box security test platform, open-source network security fuzz testing platform, open-source network security code review platform, open-source component security and compliance management platform, and open source network security real-time application self protection platform. It also provides an S SDLC solution, DevSecOps solution, and software online safety detection program. It can be used in financial software security solutions, state owned enterprise software security solutions, regulatory software security solutions, car networking software security solutions, and medical software security solutions.
- Aug 2021Series B$15.4M
- Oct 2020Series A—
#9
Series D · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2012 · 11 employees$20Mraised▾
SequoiaDB is a software company from china that has created 'SequoiaDB' an open-source enterprise-grade New SQL database being document oriented. It supports JSON and SQL query for transaction processing. Sequoia DB can integrate with Spark for real-time batch processing. The product has been used by customers listed among Fortune 500, such as Bank of China, China Telecom, Hainan Airline, and several listed Internet companies. It was awarded in 50 most innovated companies in China by the "Fast Company" magazine.
- Oct 2020Series D—
- Sep 2018Series C—
- Jul 2016Series B$10M
- Dec 2014Series A$10M
#10
Series A · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2016 · 80 employees$10Mraised▾
Cloud based mobile operating systems. The platform offers operating systems that can run on multiple devices that include mobiles & desktops. It works as a desktop OS by switching into desktop mode to improve productivity. It supports multi-touch gestures and animation effects. It supports all types of Linux and Android applications.
- Apr 2021Series A$10M
#11
Seed · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2021$1.5Mraised▾
Cross-chain trading platform for NFTs. It features open-source frameworks for non-fungible tokens. Its features include a test network, open API, network deployment, integration of cross-chain services, an exhibition of digital chain assets, substrate frameworks, communication between public chain and business chain layers, as well as integration with NFT assets across the network.
- May 2021ICO$75K
- May 2021Seed$1.5M
- Mar 2021Seed—
#12
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2018$1.5Mraised▾
Cloud-based enterprise software delivery management solution provider. Provides solutions such as continuous construction, cloud testing environment, second-level deployment, continuous testing, security release, and product delivery capabilities management. Features include concurrent building, micro services modules, delivery monitoring, data virtualization, and etc.
- Aug 2021Seed—
- Dec 2020Seed$1.5M
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