Investors / Open Core Ventures
Open Core Ventures
Venture capital
Open Core Ventures identifies open source projects with commercial potential, forms and funds companies around them, and recruits the project's author or key contributor as founding CTO. It then helps recruit an experienced CEO and prepare the company to raise from external investors.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
In its own wordsopen sourcecommercial open sourceaideveloper toolssoftware
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Or find every investor that fitsOpen Core Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (23%), Cybersecurity (20%) and Enterprise Software (20%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Amity Ventures, Anorak Ventures and Aviso Ventures.
No funding round on record names Open Core Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Open Core Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 18. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 23% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 20% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 20% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 9% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Developer Tools | 3% | 0% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Amity Ventures | 1 |
| Anorak Ventures | 1 |
| Aviso Ventures | 1 |
| Bright Pixel Capital | 1 |
| CRV | 1 |
| CapitalX | 1 |
| Cota Capital | 1 |
| Firebrand | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 27th | 23% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Open Core Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BetterDB persists database logs, command history, and client analytics, with real-time dashboards and anomaly detection. | Developer ToolsCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| CoChat provides AI research agents that verify sources for various industries including education, scientific research, and business | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Duplicati provides a platform for managing encrypted backups across various storage options, including cloud and local hardware, from a single console. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| FleetDM provides device management services for various operating systems, including macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| FlowFuse builds industrial applications with AI for companies to scale their operations. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Authentik provides a secure and flexible solution for identity needs, allowing users to take control of their sensitive data and authentication processes. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| GrapesJS provides a visual editor for building emails, landing pages, websites, and more, that can be embedded in other applications. | Space & DefenseMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Kedify provides Kubernetes autoscaling that cuts cloud spend | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kernelize builds the inference intelligence layer that makes every chip ready for any model. | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Lucenia delivers next-generation search without clusters or cloud dependencies | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Mermaid provides a platform for creating diagrams from text or code inputs | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| OpenCoreEMR provides a free hosted electronic health record system for US medical practices | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Phaser helps users create games with the assistance of AI bots that aid in design, art, music, and sound | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Selora Homes installs and manages smart home systems, including cameras, locks, shades, and climate control, all controlled through a single app with a personal AI assistant. | Real Estate & ConstructionConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Sprag provides real-time speech-to-speech agents and a full voice AI pipeline | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Stirling PDF is a private PDF editor that runs anywhere and automates everything | Media & EntertainmentEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Superserve provides virtual machines for long-running agents with persistent storage and programmable networking | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| SurfSense offers a private research notebook that runs entirely on the user's own machine, providing an alternative to NotebookLM. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- opencoreventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 18
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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