FAQ

What's the status of your company?

We are a US based C corp registered in Delaware. We also have created other separate entities to act as Fiscal Hosts, like the Open Collective Foundation 501c3, for charitable Open Collectives in the US and the Open Source Collective 501c6 for open source projects around the world.

Where are you based?

Our team is distributed between Aix-en-Provence, Auckland, Brussels, Berlin, Guadalajara, New York, Madrid, Paris, Shropshire, Navi Mumbai, Vancouver and Wellington.

When did you start?

​Xavier Damman created the company in May 2015 and raised a first round of $500k in October 2015 (deck). Pia Mancini and Aseem Sood joined as cofounders in January 2016 (Aseem left the company in April 2018). Pia became CEO in April 2018.

Can I see your company budget?

We run our company via multiple Open Collectives ourselves. You can also see the Collective for the Open Source Collective. We still have some work to do to be even more transparent, and we hope to continue improving in this area.

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 at [email protected] or join our Slack.