Company Info for openbb.link | IcebreakerMembers
In 2018, I founded OSS Capital. We are the worlds first and only early stage VC dedicated exclusively to COSS (commercial open source) startups on a global basis. Previously, I was extremely fortunate to help start and run the very first Kubernetes startup (Kismatic) and also found and run KubeCon (the Kubernetes community conference) before donating it to the Linux Foundation in 2016 as the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) was materializing.
Our approach at OSS Capital is to be the first institutional startup investor at incorporation in next-generation COSS businesses that will transform our future across all industries.
Our portfolio contains the largest array of market-defining and fastest-growing open source founders in spaces like Data, AI/ML, Gaming, Consumer & Enterprise Applications, Networking, API / Middleware Infrastructure and more.
We are humbled to serve 70+ portfolio companies that support 150 million+ users, 10,000+ open source contributors, 1 million+ GitHub stars and 30+ projects in the top 0.000001% of all open source technologies.
OSS is backed by great institutions and founders/builders of the most successful COSS startups of the last 30 years including HashiCorp, MongoDB, Elastic, Automattic, Red Hat, GitLab, GitHub, Confluent and many more.
Our thesis has remained the same since our founding and is very simple: Open source is eating software faster than software is eating the world. 🌎 🚀
During his tenure as the leader of OSS Capital, JJ has led > 40 funding rounds at incorporation (Seed and Series A). As partner to these founders, OSS has also played a pivotal role in facilitating the creation of > $20B in value capture and many hundreds of billions in value creation. 
