India has witnessed significant growth in the open-source ecosystem over the past few years, and we've seen many open-source projects evolve into startups.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Minimum Viable, where we feature a few of the top Indian open-source startups!

ToolJet

ToolJet helps organizations create custom internal tools quickly and easily, with less code and fewer resources.

Founded in 2021, ToolJet has raised $6.1M from Microsoft’s M12 Venture Fund, Nexus Venture Partners, Ratio Ventures, Better Capital, January Capital, and other venture capitalists and angel investors.

Navaneeth, who is the CEO of ToolJet, had previously co-founded MobioPush, which was acquired by Freshworks in 2015. He’s a serial entrepreneur and has previously founded WanderWhale, SendOut.io, and Smartweb Innovations.

Chatwoot

Chatwoot connects with popular customer communication channels such as Email, Website live-chat, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. This helps companies deliver a consistent customer experience across channels – all from a single dashboard.

Chatwoot is a Y Combinator-backed startup and has raised $1.6 million in seed funding from Goat Capital, Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures, Hack VC, and a host of angel investors, including Lambda School CEO Austen Allred.

Prior to Chatwoot, Pranav, Nithin, and Sojan worked together at BigBinary. Chatwoot began as a support tool for social media and was open-sourced in 2019. It has since continued to grow to over 25,000 self-hosted installations.

Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch is building an API development ecosystem, with their current product being an open-source API testing client that organizations can use on the cloud or self-host.

Founded in 2021, Hoppscotch has raised a seed round of $3M from OSS Capital, with participation from Automattic and a slew of angel investors. With over 60k stars on GitHub, Hoppscotch is one of the most starred open-source projects on the platform!

Liyas created Hoppscotch back in 2019 as an open-source project, and Andrew later joined as one of the first open-source contributors. Both of them later decided to start Hoppscotch as a company.

Keploy

Keploy is your open-source, developer-centric backend testing tool. It simplifies backend testing, making it easy and productive for engineering teams. Keploy creates test cases and data mocks from user traffic by recording API calls and DB queries, significantly speeding up releases and enhancing reliability.

Founded in 2021 by Neha Gupta and Shubham Jain, Keploy boasts over 100K users and has garnered over 3000 stars on GitHub. In 2022, Keploy raised $1.3M from Chiratae Ventures and British International Investment.

Neha and Shubham previously worked together at FarEye before starting Keploy

SigNoz

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform. They are building an open-core alternative to DataDog for companies that want to keep their critical data within their boundaries.

Founded in 2020, SigNoz is backed by Y Combinator and has raised $6.5M in funding from Uncorrelated Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and a host of angels, including GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner.

Both Pranay and Ankit are IIT alumni and have previously worked together at their own startup, TapDiscover.