CB Insights · May 2024
Company profile summarizing OpenFoundry’s product, headquarters, funding, investors, and leadership; also describes it as an open-source alternative to Hugging Face.
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
OpenFoundry is a YC W24, very small San Francisco-based startup building an open-source developer platform for open-source AI—focused on model discovery, prototyping/fine-tuning, and one-line cloud deployment. Public evidence is strongest for the website, YC pages, GitHub repo, and LinkedIn company profile; no public office list, careers page, phone number, benefits, or visa policy was found.
Primary product
Open-source AI developer platform and CLI for deploying open-source models to cloud infrastructure
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / open-source AI infrastructure
Business model
B2B developer tools
Open-source software
Funding
Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Apr 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Founders
CTO & Co-Founder
Work & culture
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Open-source alternative to Hugging Face
- —One-line CLI deployment to cloud
- —End-to-end workflow for model discovery, prototyping, fine-tuning, and deployment
- —Startup-focused developer experience for open-source AI
Technology
Python
TypeScript
Shell
Docker
FastAPI
AWS SageMaker
AWS
Hugging Face
S3
YAML
JavaScript
Competitors
Hugging Face
closed-source AI platforms such as OpenAI
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
approximately $85.6K (estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
1.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Extruct AI · Apr 2024
Funding analysis reporting a $500K pre-seed round closed on 2024-04-03 with Y Combinator as lead investor and Soma Capital also listed as an investor.
MarkTechPost · Mar 2024
Article describing OpenFoundry’s mission, CLI-based deployment workflow, and positioning as a developer platform for open-source AI, backed by Y Combinator.
LinkedIn · Mar 2024
Tyler Lehman announced OpenFoundry during YC, saying the team was building a developer community and platform for open-source AI and that customers were already using it in production.
Jobs and careers at OpenFoundry
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