our story

AI, Open Source
and Finance

Learn about our vision, team, and commitment to open
solutions that empower the future of finance.

Building open analytics
solutions since 2021

We believe that financial institutions understand their data, strategies, and needs better than any vendor ever could. With roots in open source, OpenBB builds open systems that teams can modify, extend, and truly make their own, free from lock-in or black-box limitations.

140k+

Registered users

62k+

Github Stars

200+

Solutions built on OpenBB

Dec 2023

OpenBB Workspace first demo in San Francisco

OpenBB Workspace was unveiled for the first time at an event in SF, highlighting that users could bring any type of data from multiple different sources into the product.

May 2024

OpenBB Workspace leaves Alpha in NYC event

OpenBB Workspace left Alpha at Tower Research Ventures, where the team introduced OpenBB Copilot and showed how AI agents could interact with data in the Workspace.

Mar 2025

OpenBB Workspace is enterprise-ready

We re-invented OpenBB Workspace to be enterprise-ready: VPC and on-prem deployment, role-based access, SSO, SOC 2 Type II compliance, admin roles, and more.

Feb 2026

OpenBB launches a Snowflake Native App

OpenBB Workspace launches on Snowflake Marketplace, enabling investment teams to build analytics applications and deploy AI agents directly within Snowflake.

Our investors and advisors

We are backed by industry leaders and trusted advisors who bring deep expertise in open source, enterprise software, and venture growth. Their support helps us drive innovation and deliver value to our global community.

Investors

Joseph Jacks

OSS Capital
Naval Ravikant

Entrepreneur, Investor, Co-founder of AngelList
Justin Hoffman

Former SVP Sales at Elastic
Larry Augustin

Former CEO of SugarCRM, and former VP Applications at AWS
Elad Gil

Entrepreneur, Operating Executive and Investor
Ram Shriram

Investor, Founding Board Member of Google
Bob Young

Entrepreneur, Investor, Founder of Red Hat

Advisors

Scott Williamson

Ex-CPO at Gitlab and VPP at SendGrid/Twilio
Travis Oliphant

CEO at OpenTeams & Quansight | Founder of Anaconda & NumFOCUS | NumPy & SciPy Creator
Justin Hoffman

Former SVP Sales at Elastic
Larry Augustin

Former CEO of SugarCRM, and former VP Applications at AWS
Aria Goudarzi

Former Head of Strategic Analytics and Data at Nikko Asset Management
Gabriele Columbro

Open Source Executive, FinTech, Enterprise Software & non-profit Advisor
Joyce Li, CFA

Former Institutional Equity Fund Manager | Former Board President of CFA Society San Francisco
Jason Strimpel

Managing Director, Global AI Strategy at Andersen Consulting