Part of Red River WestLearn more →>commit (also written as commit, commit fund, or commit VC) is an early-stage venture capital fund and part of the Red River West family. We back commercial open-source startups at pre-seed and seed, with checks up to $1.5M, between Europe and the US.
We invest at the intersection of great software and the communities that grow around it — because the community is the moat. Focus areas: infrastructure and developer tools, AI and machine learning, data platforms, cybersecurity and sysadmin tooling, business applications, and industry-specific open-source solutions.
Two unfair advantages: a proprietary data platform purpose-built for open source (aggregating signals from GitHub, package managers, container registries, Discord, and more) and a network of 100+ open-source operators including successful founders from Supabase, Mozilla, Nginx, Hugging Face, and others.
The team: Olivier Huez (Partner), Max Corbani (Partner), Abel Samot (Partner), and Alessandro Ciffo (Tech Lead).
Active Fund I commitments to date: 3 — one announced (UMA — humanoid robotics), two stealth (disclosure pending).
Reach out at hey@commit.fund. Browse the full site at /about, the portfolio at /companies, essays at /blog, and the team at /team.