I am a General Partner at venture firm Runa Capital, where I focus on investing in early-stage startups building OSS, dev-focused, and infrastructure software. My favorite areas of next-gen infra include data, AI/ML, cloud, security, observability, and enterprise suites (like CRM and ERP). Some open source startups we invested in:
- Nginx, the most popular web server in the world (exited in 2019)
- MariaDB, relational database founded by MySQL's creator (exited in 2024)
- Twenty, next-gen CRM platform, open-source alternative to Salesforce (thesis)
- Keep, next-gen alert management and AIOps platform for enterprises (thesis)
- OpenReplay, session replay and product analytics suite
- PandasAI, platform to query your data in natural language
- Evidently, the most popular observability framework for ML models
Since 2020, I have been publishing the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index, where we highlight the top 20 trending open source startups (by GitHub star growth) every quarter.
As a VC and a philanthropist, I am strongly interested in Open Source, and I take it seriously.