Top trending OSS startups in Q3 2024
Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) index is a regularly updated ranking of early-stage open-source startups, based on their GitHub star growth rate in the last quarter.
We have been publishing the top trending open-source startups every quarter since Q2 2020. More than 30,000 developers, founders, and investors have visited ROSS index to date. Here's our fresh list for Q3 2024 — we hope you enjoy it! 😊
🇧🇷 Higher Order Company (higherorderco/bend, 17.0K stars, 17.0x growth) develops Bend, a programming language to run parallel CPU/GPU computations. Founded in 2023 in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
🇮🇹 ScrapeGraphAI (scrapegraphai/scrapegraph-ai, 13.5K stars, 13.5x growth) builds an AI-powered web scraping tool for effortless data extraction without coding. Founded in 2024 in Bergamo, Italy.
🇨🇳 InfiniFlow (infiniflow/ragflow, 10.6K stars, 10.6x growth) is a unified business automation platform, developing RAGflow - a RAG engine based on understanding complex documents. Founded in 2023 in Shanghai, China.
🇺🇸 Plandex AI (plandex-ai/plandex, 9.8K stars, 9.8x growth) develops an open-source AI coding engine for complex software development tasks. Founded in 2024 in San Mateo, CA.
🇺🇸 Composio (composiohq/composio, 8.4K stars, 8.4x growth) builds an integration platform allowing AI Agents and LLMs to interact with various apps and system tools. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco, CA.
🇺🇸 Mendable (mendableai/firecrawl, 8.0K stars, 8.0x growth) develops Firecrawl, a web scraping tool for AI-ready data extraction and crawling. Founded in 2022 in Boston and raised $500K from YC, etc.
🇺🇸 Fish Audio (fishaudio/fish-speech, 6.9K stars, 6.9x growth) is an AI-powered text-to-speech platform offering voice creation and synthesis. Founded in 2024 in Santa Clara, CA.
🇺🇸 HeyForm (heyform/heyform, 6.0K stars, 6.0x growth) is a platform that helps to create intelligent forms online. Founded in 2020 in Sheridan, WY.
🇩🇪 Jina AI (jina-ai/reader, 5.7K stars, 5.7x growth) provides enterprises with AI infrastructure like neural search, RAG systems, etc. Founded in 2020 in Berlin, Germany and raised $37.5M from Yunqi, SAP.iO, GGV, Mango, etc.
🇹🇷 Upsonic (upsonic/gpt-computer-assistant, 5.1K stars, 5.1x growth) is a AI-based code collaboration platform which has developed an open source GPT Computer Assistant. Founded in 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Get more data about other startups from the last quarter at ROSS Index Q3 2024.
OSS update from Runa Capital
This month we announced our new investment — Runa led a $2.7M pre-seed round of an open-source AIOps platform 🇮🇱 Keep, co-founded in Tel Aviv by two Unit 8200 veterans and ex-Director of Engineering at Grafana. Its AI-based platform collects alerts from any enterprise observability stack (100+ integrations), then reduce noise, correlate alerts, and automate further custom workflows at large enterprises.
Check out our short thesis behind this investment and Keep’s repo on GitHub!
How does the ROSS index work?
The index evolves with the support of its community, and in Q1 2024, we slightly tweaked our methodology. Now the startup list is based on maximum GitHub star growth within any 90-day period that ended in the target quarter. In a nutshell, our approach remains simple:
Monitor all GitHub repos with 1,000+ stars
Calculate the growth of stars during the target "sliding window" period
Select repos that are only associated with early-stage startups
Highlight the top 20 trending open-source startups by their GitHub star growth
There's no magic open metric representing the quality of tech companies. Our star growth-based approach highlights noteworthy early-stage startups leveraging open source that have been on developers' minds in the last quarter.
Since its launch in Q2 2020, all quarterly indexes are published on our website. You can easily contact us with your ideas on how to improve the index. Also, if you’re a lucky participant in the ROSS index’s top 20, feel free to let others know about this by adding a special badge on your GitHub repo or to your website.
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