# Company

## FAQ

### What's the status of your company?

We are an American based C corp registered in Delaware. We also have created other separate entities to act as [Fiscal Hosts](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts), 

* [Open Source Collective 501c6](https://opencollective.com/opensource) for open source projects around the world.

### Where are you based?

Our team works remotely around the world. Learn more about who works for Open Collective on our [Team page](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/team). 

### When did you start?

[Xavier Damman](https://twitter.com/xdamman) created the company in May 2015 and raised a first round of $500k in October 2015. [Pia Mancini](https://twitter.com/piamancini) and [Aseem Sood](https://twitter.com/aseemsood_) [joined as cofounders in January 2016](https://medium.com/open-collective/pia-mancini-and-aseem-sood-join-opencollective-as-cofounders-2d4549bd46fd) ([Aseem left the company in April 2018](https://medium.com/open-collective/team-update-19749b964e39)). [Pia became CEO in April 2018](https://medium.com/open-collective/my-new-role-at-open-collective-3bbad22f1715).

### Can I see your company budget?

We run our company via [multiple Open Collectives](https://opencollective.com/opencollective) ourselves. You can also see the [Collective for the Open Source Collective](https://opencollective.com/opensource). 

### How much investment have you raised?

We try to be very transparent about our own finances. We raised a total of $2,815,000 so far ($815k on convertible notes in 2015-2016, $2M Series Seed in June 2017).

### How do I get in touch with you?

[Contact us ](https://opencollective.com/contact)or join our [Discord](https://discord.opencollective.com).