Sid Sijbrandij
Venture Capital
Co-founder and Executive Chair of GitLab; General Partner at Open Core Ventures, backing open-source software companies by recruiting founders and funding them from day one.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Developer Tools
Open Source
- Founded
- 2020
- Website
- opencoreventures.com
Investment Thesis
Backs open-core software companies built around open source projects with traction; OCV recruits founding teams, pays market-rate salaries from day one, and funds each company $2M until they raise an external seed round.