Top trending OSS startups in Q4 2024
Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) index is a regular 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 Q4 2024 — we hope you enjoy it! 😊
🇨🇭 Shardeum (shardeum/shardeum, 20.9K stars, 16.2x growth) is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform. Founded in 2022 in Zug, Switzerland. Raised $24M from Amber Group, Galxe, J17 Capital, JSquare, TRGC, etc.
🇸🇬 RSSNext (rssnext/follow, 14.5K stars, 14.2x growth) develops Follow.is that organizes content into one timeline, providing users with a customized noise-free information hub. Founded in 2024 in Singapore.
🇩🇪 Black Forest Labs (black-forest-labs/flux, 15.5K stars, 11.2x growth) develops advanced Gen AI models for images and videos. Founded in 2024 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Raised $30M from A16Z, General Catalyst, Mätch VC, etc.
🇮🇱 ChartDB (chartdb/chartdb, 10.1K stars, 10.1x growth) is a visualization tool for databases, enabling diagramming via a single query. Founded in 2024 in Tel Aviv.
🇺🇸 ScreenPipe (mediar-ai/screenpipe, 10.0K stars, 9.2x growth) is a screen search engine, allowing analysis of screen & audio activities across enterprises. Founded in 2024 in San Francisco. Raised an undisclosed amount from Founders, Inc.
🇺🇸 Void (voideditor/void, 8.5K stars, 8.5x growth) is an AI code editor, an open-source alternative to Cursor. Founded in 2024 in San Francisco. Raised $500K from YC.
🇬🇧 EXO Labs (exo-explore/exo, 10.2K stars, 8.5x growth) builds open software infrastructure to train and run AI models everywhere, including everyday home devices. Founded in 2024 in Oxford, UK.
🇺🇸 Cline (cline/cline, 8.5K stars, 8.5x growth) is an autonomous AI coding agent integrating with other IDEs. Founded in 2024 in San Francisco.
🇺🇸 Composio (composiohq/composio, 8.4K stars, 7.2x growth) develops an integration platform for AI agents to interact with software applications and system tools. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco. Raised $4M from Together Fund.
🇨🇦 VideoLingo (huanshere/videolingo, 7.1K stars, 7.1x growth) generates AI-powered cinema-grade bilingual subtitles & dubbing. Founded in 2024 in Ontario, Canada.
Get more data about other startups from the last quarter at ROSS Index Q4 2024.
Runa Capital invested in open source CRM Twenty
In November, we announced our latest open-source investment — Runa led a $5M seed round of a fast-growing startup 🇫🇷 Twenty. Founded in Paris in 2023, it has quickly become the #1 open-source CRM , boasting over 25,000 GitHub stars and 400 contributors.
Twenty is building a modern alternative to Salesforce CRM: open-source, data-centric, AI-native, highly customizable, and extendable. The product is already gaining traction among enterprises, including a top-10 U.S. bank.
Check out our thesis behind this investment and Twenty’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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