The TrueUpOpen Source Report
Jul 2026
TrueUp Open Source 40
40 Hottest Open Source Companies
01.AI•
Airbyte•
Aiven•
Anaconda•
Anyscale•
Astronomer•
Bit•
Browserbase•
Cast AI•
Chainguard•
ClickHouse•
Cloudera•
Cockroach Labs•
Databricks•
dbt Labs•
Defense Unicorns•
Elastic•
Fastly•
Grafana•
Hasura•
Hugging Face•
Inferact•
Instructure•
JetBrains•
JFrog•
LangChain•
Lightning AI•
Mistral AI•
MongoDB•
n8n•
Odoo•
PingCAP•
PostHog•
RadixArk•
Redpanda•
Snyk•
Socket•
Solo.io•
Spectro Cloud•
StackBlitz•
Starburst•
Supabase•
Tailscale•
Temporal•
Together•
Vercel•
Zyphra
Jul 2026
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 | #6 |
2. |  Together | #45 |
3. |  Chainguard | #64 |
4. |  Supabase | #85 |
5. |  Inferact | #93 |
6. |  Databricks | #101 |
7. |  Temporal | #144 |
8. |  ClickHouse | #146 |
9. |  n8n | #164 |
10. |  Zyphra | #175 |
Jul 2026
Top Open Source co's by valuation
| company | valuation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Databricks | $134B | |
2. |  MongoDB ($MDB) | $27B | |
3. | ClickHouse | $15B | |
4. | Mistral AI | $14B | |
5. |  JFrog ($FROG) | $11B | |
6. | Supabase | $10B | |
7. |  Vercel | $9.3B | |
8. | Together | $8.3B | |
9. |  Odoo | $8.1B | |
10. |  Automattic | $7.5B |
Jul 2026
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5,564 open Open Source jobs
↑62.4% from low (3,427)
Jul 2026
Remote Index
41.7
% of Open Source jobs with a remote option
Jul 2026
Bay Area Index
13.8
% of Open Source jobs listed in the Bay Area
Jul 2026
Open Source Co's w/ Most Open Jobs
| company | jobs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Databricks | 787 | |
2. | MongoDB | 389 | |
3. |  Canonical | 301 | |
4. |  Red Hat | 243 | |
5. |  Elastic | 190 | |
6. | Mistral AI | 172 | |
7. | ClickHouse | 159 | |
8. |  GitLab | 144 | |
9. |  Grafana | 108 | |
10. |  JetBrains | 97 | |
10. |  LangChain | 97 | |
12. |  Kong | 93 | |
13. |  Cloudera | 87 | |
14. | Chainguard | 73 | |
15. | Vercel | 66 | |
16. |  Mapbox | 63 | |
16. |  Mozilla | 63 | |
18. | Together | 60 | |
19. |  Instructure | 58 | |
19. |  Redis | 58 |
Jul 2026
Top Open Source Job Categories
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Engineering (Software) | 2044 | |
2. | Sales | 854 | |
3. | Sales Engineering | 703 | |
4. | Marketing & Growth | 423 | |
5. | Artificial Intelligence | 283 | |
6. | Business Operations & Program Management | 239 | |
7. | Customer Success | 236 | |
8. | Finance | 211 | |
9. | Product Management | 206 | |
10. | Data & Analytics | 129 |
Jul 2026
Top Open Source Job Locations
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | 🇺🇸 United States | 2625 | |
2. | 🇺🇸 Remote (United States) | 1051 | |
3. | 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area | 750 | |
4. | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 682 | |
5. | 🇩🇪 Germany | 555 | |
6. | 🇫🇷 France | 503 | |
7. | 🇮🇳 India | 494 | |
8. | 🇨🇦 Canada | 491 | |
9. | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 464 | |
10. | 🇪🇸 Spain | 421 |
Jul 2026
Open Source Jobs by Company Stage
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
🌱 Early-Stage Startup | 498 | ||
🦄 Unicorn | 2558 | ||
📈 Public Tech | 1229 | ||
🐳 FAANG+ | 22 | ||
Other | 1206 |
Jul 2026
Most Common Tech/Tools
From Open Source job descriptions
1. | AWS | |
2. | Python | |
3. | Google Cloud | |
4. | Azure | |
5. | Kubernetes | |
6. | Spark | |
7. | Databricks | |
8. | Salesforce | |
9. | SQL | |
10. | GitHub |
Jul 2026
Biggest Open Source Layoffs
Past 12 months
| company | ppl let go | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. |  Confluent | 800 | Mar 2026 | |
2. | GitLab | 350 | Jun 2026 | |
3. | Elastic | 280 | Jun 2026 | |
4. |  Qt Group | 200 | Apr 2026 | |
5. |  Elementor | 100 | Jun 2026 | |
6. |  Snyk | 90 | Jun 2026 | |
7. |  Kaltura | 70 | Aug 2025 | |
8. |  Cloudbees | 65 | Sep 2025 | |
9. |  Couchbase | 50 | Nov 2025 | |
10. |  10up | 28 | Sep 2025 |
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