Twenty

Open Source CRM

twenty.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

1-10

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Twenty (Twenty Team, Inc.) is a privately held, developer-focused open-source CRM company founded in 2023. It provides a customizable, self-hostable alternative to Salesforce for technical teams, with an extensible data model, APIs/SDK, workflows, and AI/MCP capabilities.

Primary product

Twenty CRM: an open-source, customizable CRM for contacts, companies, pipelines, tasks, workflows, custom objects, integrations, and AI-assisted operations.

Founded

2023

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

20–30 employees (public LinkedIn-derived estimates; YC previously listed 11)

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

Open-source CRM / enterprise SaaS and developer infrastructure

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

France

India

Poland

Business model

Managed cloud subscription per user

Enterprise subscription and support

Free self-hosted/open-source deployment

Implementation and partner ecosystem

Funding

Stage

Seed / generating revenue

Total raised

$5M

Latest round

Seed · Nov 2024

Latest amount

$5M

Seed

Nov 2024 · Runa Capital

$5M

Pre-Seed

Aug 2023

Grant

Feb 2023 · Harvard Innovation Labs

$100K

Y Combinator / accelerator round

Jan 2023 · Y Combinator

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Félix Malfait

Co-founder and CEO

Charles Bochet

Co-founder and CTO

Thomas Colas des Francs

Co-founder and CPO

Lucas Bordeau

Technical Lead

Founders

Thomas des Francs

Co-Founder & CPO

Investors

Aurélien Georget

Automattic

C-Suite executives at HubSpot, Front, and Pipedrive

Founders of Photoroom

Founders of Sentry

Harvard Innovation Labs

Work & culture

Public evidence describes a highly technical, open-source and community-oriented organization. The company emphasizes developer ownership, self-hosting, code-based customization, community contributions, and a distributed workforce. Specific formal benefits were not publicly established.

Compensation

No reliable public compensation bands or confirmed benefits package found.

Product & market

Pricing

Self-hosted edition is available as open-source software; managed cloud pricing is publicly listed at $9/user/month for Pro, $19/user/month for Organization, and Enterprise from $50,000/year.

Differentiators

—Open-source and self-hostable, supporting data ownership and reduced vendor lock-in
—Metadata-first customization of objects, fields, views, layouts, and workflows
—Developer-oriented TypeScript SDK and APIs
—AI-ready architecture with agents and an MCP server
—Modern CRM interface with cloud or self-hosted deployment options
—Lower published pricing than major proprietary CRM alternatives

Technology

TypeScript

React

NestJS

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

BullMQ

Jotai

Linaria

Lingui

Docker Compose

Twenty SDK

MCP

Customers

Nine Dots Ventures / Homeseller

Alternative Partners

NetZero

AC&T Education

W3villa

Elevate Consulting

Competitors

Salesforce

HubSpot

Attio

Pipedrive

SuiteCRM

EspoCRM

NocoBase

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M–$10M (third-party estimate; not company-reported)

hello@twenty.team

Latest news

Introducing AI in Twenty

Twenty / LinkedIn · Apr 2026

Twenty announced AI chat, agents, skills, tools, workflows, and an MCP server that can take permission-aware actions in a workspace.

Twenty 2.0: The open-source CRM follows up

heise online · Apr 2026

Coverage of Twenty 2.0, highlighting AI integration, MCP, SDK improvements, self-hosting infrastructure, authentication, and deployment enhancements.

Twenty 2.0 ships an MCP server, not an AI CRM, and the gap matters

ProDrop · Apr 2026

Independent assessment of the 2.0 release: strong MCP and extensibility positioning, but remaining gaps in mobile, dashboards, integrations, and enterprise maturity.

Twenty: The open source alternative to Salesforce is here

heise online · Jun 2025

Reports the 1.0 release, AGPLv3 licensing, self-hosting option, and cloud SaaS alternative.

Twenty: The #1 open-source CRM

Product Hunt · Jan 2025

Product Hunt launch page for Twenty’s major public launch on the platform, highlighting the CRM’s open-source positioning.

Jobs and careers at Twenty

30 jobs at Twenty

Accounting Manager (First Hire)

On-site

Finance

Arlington, VA; Arlington, Virginia, United States

2w ago

On-site

Full-time