A community-curated list of awesome open companies, inspired by the many awesome-x lists out there.
(click here to jump straight to the list below.)
Contributions to this list are welcome! Just edit the README.md (this document) and send the changes as a pull request. Guidelines are available.
An open company is defined, for the purposes of this list, as a for-profit organization whose core practices are guided by principles of openness, transparency and interoperability. This philosophy can be summarized by the maxim:
Share as much as possible, charge as little as possible.
derived from the original formulation by Gittip (now Gratipay).
In practice, this often means:
The following pages provide a more detailed overview of this concept:
Company | Openness Pledge | Open Product | Statement | Open Finance
------------ | --------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------
Aleph Objects | link | N/A | |
Arduino LLC | Arduino - Introduction | :octocat:Arduino | |
Atlassian | Company values — Atlassian | N/A | |
Balsamiq | Company — Balsamiq | N/A | |
Bevry | Bevry | DocPad | |
Buffer | Buffer's transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more | :octocat:Misc |Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup| Revenue
Clarify | Clarify - Launch and manage your career | N/A | |
CodeCombat | CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game | :octocat:CodeCombat |Why you should open-source your startup|
Couchbase | Open Source Projects | :octocat:All Products | |
Dangerous Prototypes | About - DP | Projects | |
Dreamwidth | About Dreamwidth Studios | :octocat:Dreamwidth | |
Elastic | Openness, transparency, and collaboration are at the heart of all that we do. | :octocat:Misc | |
GitLab | About Us — GitLab | GitLab | |
Gratipay | Welcome to Gratipay | :octocat:All Products |The first open company| Finance
Growstuff | (archive) Values - Growstuff Wiki | :octocat:Growstuff |Why Growstuff is open source|
MapBox | Open Source - MapBox | :octocat:Misc | |
Neocities | (archive) Neocities - stats | :octocat:Neocities.org |The first Neocities Open Company report|
New Vector | Work in the open | :octocat:Misc | |
Niteo | Niteo Handbook | :octocat:Pareto Security | |
OpenCraft | OpenCraft — Open edX Development & Hosting Services | N/A | |
ProtonMail | ProtonMail is Open Source! | Web Client; OpenPGPjs | ProtonMail Open Source Cryptography | |
Read the Docs | Read the Docs Open Source Philosophy | :octocat:readthedocs.org | | Funding |
Red Hat | Red Hat Jobs - Our culture | Misc | |
RStudio | What makes RStudio different? | RStudio - About
Sentry | About Sentry | Sentry | Driven by Open Source | |
SoftwareMill | 40 CEOs in 1 company | :octocat:Misc | | Open finances |
Tessel | Open Source - Tessel | :octocat:Tessel | |
Transloadit | Open Source | :octocat:Uppy | Jobs & Culture |
wemake.services | wemake-services/meta § Purpose | :octocat:wemake.services |
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