We turn open source projects into durable, venture-scale opportunities.
About the role
As an Investor at OCV, you'll identify and research promising open source projects and build investment cases. Unlike traditional venture investing, your job doesn't stop there. You'll launch these companies as interim CEO, working directly with technical founders to drive early growth. Think part investor, part co-founder.
What they're looking for
- Source and evaluate open source projects for commercial potential, digging into codebase quality, architecture, contributor activity, and community traction to identify which projects could become venture-scale companies
- Identify and recruit CTO candidates directly from the maintainer and core contributor base of these projects
- Launch companies as interim CEO: define the initial product roadmap, ship the first version, land early customers or design partners, and run GTM until the company has real traction
More about this role
"As software has eaten the world, open source is eating software." - Peter Levine
Commercial open source software companies have captured hundreds of billions in enterprise value, yet this represents only a fraction of the trillions delivered by OSS today. We're still in the early innings.
GitLab co-founder and executive chair Sid Sijbrandij started Open Core Ventures (OCV) to accelerate this opportunity. We start companies around promising open source projects, the same approach that took GitLab from OSS project to IPO in seven years.
We recruit founders and help them reach escape velocity. We've started 30+ companies around open source projects, including Fleet , FlowFuse , and Mermaid Chart . You can read more about our approach in our public handbook .
As an Investor at OCV, you'll identify and research promising open source projects and build investment cases. Unlike traditional venture investing, your job doesn't stop there. You'll launch these companies as interim CEO, working directly with technical founders to drive early growth. Think part investor, part co-founder.
- Source and evaluate open source projects for commercial potential, digging into codebase quality,...
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