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>commit is part of the Red River West family and is the early-stage investment vehicle focused on commercial open source startups. We back commercial open source companies at pre-seed and seed, with checks up to $1.5M. We invest at the intersection of great software and the communities that grow around it, because 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. Two unfair advantages - A proprietary data platform purpose-built for open source, aggregating signals from GitHub, package managers, container registries, Discord servers, and more. It gives a 360° view of projects, teams, and ecosystems. We use it to source earlier, qualify faster, and once we've invested, to support portfolio companies with community health monitoring, identifying the high-intent ICs worth activating in a sales motion (without creating friction in the community), hiring pipelines, competitive intelligence, etc. - A network of 100+ open source operators including successful founders of companies like Supabase, Mozilla, Nginx, and more, alongside Heads of Community, VPs of Sales, Marketing, Corporate Development from companies like Grafana, MongoDB, Hugging Face, and others, plus CTOs at major enterprises across banking, energy, telcos, and entertainment both in the US and Europe. These are the people who've built and scaled open source businesses and the buyers who write the checks. Where we focus - Infrastructure and developer tools - AI and machine learning - Data platforms - Cybersecurity and sysadmin tooling - Business applications - Industry-specific open source solutions Interested? Reach out at hey@commit.fund