Best Open Source Companies in India
The 64 best Open Source companies in India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Appsmith.
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Ranked: Best Open Source companies in India
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Appsmith Developer of an open-source low-code application platform | $52M | 48 mo ago | Series B | Nikhil Nandagopal Co-Founder | 2019 | ContentfulNode.jsRadix UI+27 | — |
| 2 | SigNoz Provider of observability platform | $6M | 32 mo ago | Series A | Ankit Nayan Co-Founder & CTO | 2021 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+18 | — |
| 3 | BangDB Key Value NoSQL Database | $5M | 53 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | Node.jsUbuntuGoogle Sign-in+15 | — |
| 4 | Plane SaaS-based open-source project management tool 69Growth top 19%Tech top 27%Fin. health top 27%Talent top 38% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 19% Techtop 27% Fin. healthtop 27% Talenttop 38% Partnerstop 45% Fundingbottom 47% Marketbottom 44% Productbottom 40% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 18% Growth: Headcount 21 → 43 (+105%) across vintages · Revenue +208% YoY Tech: 46 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $4M | 26 mo ago | Seed | Vamsi Kurama Co-founder and CEO | 2022 | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+23 | 2 launchs |
| 5 | Hoppscotch Provider of open source API development platform | $3M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Andrew Bastin Co-founder & CTO | 2019 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | — |
| 6 | Foradian Education ERP Software Provider | $2M | 145 mo ago | Seed | Neelakantha Karinje CEO | 2009 | RubyBootstrapRuby on Rails+6 | 1 launch |
| 7 | Fedena ERP Platform for school and college management | $1M | 136 mo ago | Acquired | Neelakantha Karinje CEO | 2009 | RubyBootstrapRuby on Rails+18 | — |
| 8 | ERPNext Developer of open-source, customizable cloud ERP software | $1M | 67 mo ago | Seed | Aditya Hase Co-Founder | 2008 | ERPNextCart FunctionalityMariaDB+24 | — |
| 9 | CloudMunch The platform for providing intelligence related to the DevOps processes | $1M | 166 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2011 | Priority HintsFont Awesomecdnjs+6 | — |
| 10 | Scrollback Micro-forums for text chats on websites and for conferences | $500K | 139 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 11 | Helical IT Solutions Open Source BI and Data Warehousing and Analytics solutions | $47K | 157 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
Top 12 Open Source companies in India
#1
Seed · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2022 · 43 employees$4Mraised▾
SaaS-based open-source project management tool
- Apr 2024Seed$4M
#2
Series A · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2021 · 9 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Provider of observability platform. It provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing metrics, logs, and traces. It offers a single pane of glass for observability, allowing users to get insights into the applications and infrastructure.
- Sep 2023Series A$5.4M
- Mar 2021Seed$1.1M
#3
Series B · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2019 · 52 employees$51.5Mraised▾
Developer of an open-source low-code application platform. It enables custom application building. The platform offers broad data source connectivity, drag-and-drop UI building, and complete JavaScript customization. It integrates with Git for CI/CD, facilitating version control and streamlined deployments. The platform also includes enterprise-grade security features such as SAML and OIDC SSO, role-based access controls, and SCIM-based user provisioning. Self-hosting options are available for enhanced control and security.
- Jun 2022Series B$41M
- Oct 2021Series A$8M
- Seed$2.5M
#4
Series A · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2015 · 5 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Iqlect provides BangDB, a NoSQL database in multiple flavors. BangDB is a distributed key-value store written in C++. Available as Embedded Data Store and Client server model. Implements its own buffer pool, adaptive page pre fetch and flush mechanism to optimize the performance. Data can be stored in Normal Key-Value table, Wide Table and Primitive Table. Supports ACID transactions. Embedded db can be run either in-memory or backed by disk. BandDB server provides BangDB as a service over the network and clients can access it. Lip-Bu Tan, founder of Walden International; Michael Marks, former CEO of Flextronics and founding partner at Riverwood Capital; and Nicolas Braithwaite, founding partner at Riverwood Capital and former Flextronics CTO, have invested in their individual capacity on March 1, 2016.
- Jan 2022Series A—
- Apr 2021Series A$2M
- Jul 2018Seed$2.5M
- Mar 2017Angel$11.2K
#5
Seed · Kochi, Kerala · founded 2019 · 11 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of open source API development platform. It provides an API request builder that helps developers to create, test, and save API requests. It leverages Graphql to set endpoint, query schema, set custom request headers, and receive query response. The features of the software include multi-platform and device support, web socket testing, customizations, docker support, and more.
- Dec 2021Seed$3M
#6
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2008 · 36 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Developer of open-source, customizable cloud ERP software. It offers a comprehensive suite of modules covering accounting, procurement, sales, CRM, stock management, manufacturing, project management, point of sale, HR, and payroll. The software is designed to be user-friendly and adaptable to various industries and business needs, utilizing a low-code/no-code builder for customization. It provides a scalable and secure hosting platform, eliminating per-user pricing. The platform also offers integrations with third-party applications.
- Nov 2020Seed$1.3M
#7
Seed · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2009 · 31 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Offers a management system for schools and colleges. Provides Fedena and Uzity. Fedena allows clients to manage grade books, parent-teacher collaboration, attendance, fees, and more. Uzity offers a learning management system allowing users to create assessments & courses that include videos, audios, images, text, presentations, and documents. Offered on a premium subscription. Clients include S.J.E.S Central School, Dr. T.Thimmaiah Institute of Technology, Silver Spring International School, etc. Awards won include UKTI's award, Star Entrepreneur Award, MIT TR35 award, etc.
- Apr 2014Seed$2M
- Nov 2011Angel$132.2K
#8
Acquired · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2009 · 31 employees$1.4Mraised▾
A multipurpose, cloud hosted school management software and student information system used by educational institutions for administration and management related activities, i.e. managing students, teachers, employees, courses, etc. Some of its clients are the Indian Institute of Logistics, Laksh Career Academy, Vidya Vikas Academy, and many more.
- Feb 2015Seed$1.3M
#9
Acqui-Hired · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2011 · 224 employees$1Mraised▾
The platform for providing intelligence related to the DevOps processes. It can be integrated with various online developer platforms, continuous deployment, social collaboration, automated testing platforms. Based on the metrics collected, it provides a collated view of the analysis on a dashboard related to sprints, releases, and deployments. It also provides recommendations and automated actions based on the threshold set by the users.
- Aug 2012Series A$1M
#10
Seed · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2012$500Kraised▾
Scrollback, a product of Askabt Pte. Ltd is the platform provider for building micro-forums on websites to sustain open communities through text chat on the portal. Its forums are real-time and suitable for mobile as a replacement for standard forums. Unlike Facebook Chat and WhatsApp which are designed for small, private groups of friends, Scrollback is a group chat for large, open communities that need persistent conversations that can be moderated, shared, embedded, browsed, and searched.
- Nov 2014Seed$400K
#11
Seed · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2018 · 9 employees$14.7Kraised▾
Aikaan Labs is a technology startup that develops software controllers to monitor, control, provision, and debug issues for large scale IoT edge and fog deployments. Its offerings include AiAgent and AiCon. AiAgent is a software agent (Docker-based) which is installed on each and every element of the edge Infrastructure to collect more than 50 data points with respect to network, applications, and systems, and pass the same to AiCon. AiCon is an edge controller that receives data from the individual agents (AiGate) and learns the behavior of the edge infrastructure through ML algorithms to provide actionable insights on topology, anomalies, SLA violations, among others.
- Jan 2020Seed$14.7K
#12
Seed · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2012 · 33 employees$46.6Kraised▾
Helical IT provides open source based BI & Data Warehousing services in Jaspersoft Pentaho. Provide mobile BI solutions, on-premises or hosted SaaS solution. Helps in tool selection, ETL, Data warehouse designing & consultation, solution development & analytics. Its products include Helical Insight to manage BI and reporting solutions. Other product includes Helical Insight which allows users to manage data warehousing solutions. Additional services include cloud-based BI dashboards, OLAP custom plugin, Mobile BI reporting, self-service BI Data Modeling & ETL Data WareHousing.
- May 2013Seed$46.6K
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