The TrueUpOpen Source Report
Apr 2025
TrueUp Open Source 30
30 Hottest Open Source Companies
01.AI•
Airbyte•
Aiven•
Anyscale•
Chainguard•
Chronosphere•
ClickHouse•
Cloudera•
Cockroach Labs•
Confluent•
Corelight•
Databricks•
dbt Labs•
Elastic•
ForgeRock•
GitLab•
Grafana•
Hasura•
Hugging Face•
JetBrains•
Kong•
Mistral AI•
MongoDB•
n8n•
Odoo•
PingCAP•
Redis•
Snyk•
Solo.io•
Spectro Cloud•
StackBlitz•
Starburst•
Supabase•
Tailscale•
Tecton•
Temporal•
Together•
Vercel
Apr 2025
Top Open Source Co’s by Trajectory
Factors incl. fundraising history, hiring trends, industry factors, layoff data, TrueUp member interest & more
| company | all‑tech rank | |
|---|---|---|
1. |  Mistral AI | #5 |
2. |  Together | #15 |
3. |  Databricks | #52 |
4. |  Supabase | #68 |
5. |  Chainguard | #101 |
6. |  Snyk | #118 |
7. |  Temporal | #126 |
8. |  Hugging Face | #216 |
9. |  01.AI | #242 |
10. |  Grafana | #258 |
Apr 2025
Top Open Source co’s by valuation
| company | valuation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Databricks | $62B | |
2. |  MongoDB ($MDB) | $14B | |
3. |  Elastic ($ESTC) | $9.3B | |
4. |  Confluent ($CFLT) | $7.8B | |
5. |  GitLab ($GTLB) | $7.7B | |
6. |  Automattic | $7.5B | |
7. | Snyk | $7.4B | |
8. |  JetBrains | $7.0B | |
9. | Mistral AI | $6.2B | |
10. | Grafana | $6.0B |
Apr 2025
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5,548 open Open Source jobs
↑62.7% from low (3,410)
Apr 2025
Remote Index
38.5
% of Open Source jobs with a remote option
Apr 2025
Bay Area Index
10.1
% of Open Source jobs listed in the Bay Area
Apr 2025
Open Source Co’s w/ Most Open Jobs
| company | jobs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Databricks | 676 | |
2. | MongoDB | 670 | |
3. |  Red Hat | 350 | |
4. |  Canonical | 257 | |
5. | Elastic | 170 | |
6. | Confluent | 164 | |
7. |  Rapid7 | 144 | |
8. |  JFrog | 139 | |
9. |  HashiCorp | 138 | |
10. | GitLab | 133 | |
11. | JetBrains | 132 | |
12. | Grafana | 95 | |
13. |  Redis | 88 | |
14. |  Kong | 81 | |
15. | Chainguard | 80 | |
16. |  Vercel | 77 | |
17. |  Fastly | 64 | |
18. |  Mapbox | 63 | |
19. |  Instructure | 60 | |
20. | Snyk | 59 |
Apr 2025
Top Open Source Job Categories
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Engineering (Software) | 1799 | |
2. | Sales | 1063 | |
3. | Sales Engineering | 612 | |
4. | Marketing & Growth | 391 | |
5. | Customer Success | 250 | |
6. | Business Operations & Program Management | 216 | |
7. | Product Management | 199 | |
8. | Artificial Intelligence | 180 | |
9. | Finance | 171 | |
10. | Data & Analytics | 138 |
Apr 2025
Top Open Source Job Locations
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | 🇺🇸 Remote (United States) | 954 | |
2. | 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area | 445 | |
3. | 🇬🇧 Remote (United Kingdom) | 361 | |
4. | 🇮🇱 Remote (Israel) | 344 | |
5. | 🇩🇪 Remote (Germany) | 340 | |
6. | 🇵🇱 Remote (Poland) | 328 | |
7. | 🇫🇷 Remote (France) | 323 | |
8. | 🇮🇪 Remote (Ireland) | 319 | |
9. | 🇳🇱 Remote (Netherlands) | 319 | |
10. | 🇪🇸 Remote (Spain) | 318 |
Apr 2025
Open Source Jobs by Company Stage
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
🌱 Early-Stage Startup | 431 | ||
🦄 Unicorn | 1821 | ||
📈 Public Tech | 2162 | ||
🐳 FAANG+ | 45 | ||
Other | 1123 |
Apr 2025
Most Common Tech/Tools
From Open Source job descriptions
1. | AWS | |
2. | Google Cloud | |
3. | Azure | |
4. | Python | |
5. | Kubernetes | |
6. | Spark | |
7. | Salesforce | |
8. | Databricks | |
9. | MongoDB | |
10. | Java |
Apr 2025
Biggest Open Source Layoffs
Past 12 months
| company | ppl let go | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Automattic | 270 | Apr 2025 | |
2. | Fastly | 133 | Aug 2024 | |
3. |  Sysdig | 100 | Apr 2024 | |
4. |  Voltron Data | 60 | Nov 2024 | |
5. | Sysdig | 50 | Jan 2025 | |
5. |  Moov | 50 | Sep 2024 | |
7. |  Fly.io | 40 | Sep 2024 | |
8. |  Brave | 27 | Aug 2024 | |
9. |  Redpanda | 26 | Oct 2024 | |
10. |  Stability AI | 20 | Apr 2024 |
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