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About >commit

>commit 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 United States.

Frequently asked questions

What does >commit invest in?
Commercial open-source startups at pre-seed and seed. We focus on infrastructure and developer tools, AI and machine learning, data platforms, cybersecurity and sysadmin tooling, business applications, and industry-specific open-source solutions.
What is the typical check size?
We write checks up to $1.5M at pre-seed and seed.
Where is >commit based and where do you invest?
>commit is based in Paris and is part of the Red River West family. We invest in commercial open-source startups across Europe and the United States.
Who is on the >commit team?
Olivier Huez, Max Corbani, and Abel Samot are partners. Alessandro Ciffo is the tech lead. Together they are the founding team of >commit.
How is >commit related to Red River West?
>commit is the early-stage investment vehicle of the Red River West family — a dedicated fund focused exclusively on commercial open-source companies at pre-seed and seed.
What makes >commit different from other early-stage funds?
Two unfair advantages. First, a proprietary data platform built specifically for open source — it aggregates signals from GitHub, package managers, container registries, Discord, and more, giving a 360° view of projects, teams, and ecosystems. Second, a network of 100+ open-source operators: founders of companies like Supabase, Mozilla, Nginx, and Hugging Face, alongside Heads of Community, VPs of Sales, and Marketing from Grafana, MongoDB, and others, plus CTOs at Global 2000 enterprises.
Why does >commit believe in commercial open source?
The community is the moat. When the developers who use a project become its internal champions, adoption becomes organic, contracts follow, and the flywheel compounds. The next decade will see open-source companies dominate software the way cloud-native SaaS did in the 2010s.
How do I pitch >commit?
Email hey@commit.fund. Mention what you are building, your GitHub repository if the project is public, and any community or traction signals. We respond fast.