Open Source Startup Podcast

Erica Brescia is the previous COO of GitHub and is currently an MD at Redpoint Ventures. Jono Bacon is a renowned Community Consultant who also has roots at GitHub. In this lively episode, Erica and Jono discuss their unique backgrounds in open source, how the ecosystem has evolved, open source business models & licenses, and advice for open source founders.

André Eriksson is the Founder of Stockholm-based Encore, the open-source backend development engine.  Encore's core open source project, also called encore, has almost 3K stars and helps developers escape the complexity that historically comes with setting up and managing distributed backend infrastructure. The company has raised $3M from the Open Source Startup Podcast's very own Tim Chen of Essence VC as well as Crane Venture Partners and Third Kind VC. 

Matt Butcher is Co-Founder & CEO of Fermyon, the company building open source, WebAssembly-powered cloud tools.  The company's most popular open source project, spin, has over 1K stars and is a framework for building and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly. 

Elena Samuylova is Co-Founder & CEO of Evidently AI, the open source ML monitoring platform. The company's open source project, also called evidently, has over 2K stars on GitHub and is used to evaluate and monitor ML models - from validation to production. The project's Discord channel has over 500 participants. Evidently AI is a YC company from the S21 batch and is HQ'd in San Francisco.

Nicolas Hourcard is Co-Founder & CEO of QuestDB, creators of the fastest open source time-series database questdb. Their database project has over 8K stars on GitHub and their Slack community has over 1.2K individuals.  QuestDB has raised over $14M from investors including 468 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Episode 1. 

Avi Press is Founder & CEO of Scarf, the platform that helps open-source companies understand how their code is being used.  Scarf has raised over $7M from investors including Race Capital and Freestyle Capital. 

Ajay Kulkarni is Co-Founder & CEO of TimescaleDB, the simplest SQL time-series database. The company's open-source project, timescaledb, has 13K stars and their slack community has over 8K participants.  TimescaleDB has raised over $180M from investors including Tiger, Redpoint, Icon, NEA and Benchmark. 

Arjun Narayan is Co-Founder & CEO of Materialize, the platform for building data-intensive applications with materialized views. The company's source-available project, also called materialize, has 3.9K stars and their slack channel has over 1.4K participants.  Materialize has raised over $100M from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Lightspeed.  YouTube version of the episode here.

Soumyadeb Mitra is Founder & CEO of Rudderstack, the open-source bidirectional data pipeline platform. Their primary open source project rudder-server provides an open source alternative to SaaS platform Segment and has over 3K stars with a community of over 1.7K on Slack.    Rudderstack has raised $82M from investors including Insight Partners and Kleiner Perkins. 

Jack Naglieri is Founder & CEO of Panther, the platform to run security operations at scale. It includes detection-as-code, a robust security data lake, and huge scalability with zero-ops. The company started as open-source but closed sourced in 2021.  Panther is a unicorn company having raised $140M+ from Coatue, ICONIQ, Lightspeed, and 645 Ventures.