Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the widely used open-source dashboarding and observability platform. Founded in 2014 to commercialize Torkel Odegaard's visualization tool, it has grown into a full-stack observability vendor built on a 'big tent' philosophy - letting teams unify metrics, logs, traces and profiles from any source without ripping out existing tools. Its LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) plus Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise now serve more than 7,000 paying organizations, including roughly 70% of the Fortune 50, with the business surpassing $400M in annual recurring revenue and a $6B valuation.
Appsmith is an open-source, low-code platform that lets developers quickly build internal tools - admin panels, dashboards, CRUD apps, and workflow automations - by dragging pre-built UI widgets onto a canvas and wiring them to databases and APIs with JavaScript. Founded in 2019 by Abhishek Nayak, Arpit Mohan, and Nikhil Nandagopal, the company positions itself as the developer-first, self-hostable alternative to closed platforms like Retool, and has expanded into AI-powered agents that give business teams context-aware automation on top of their own data.
Metabase is an open source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that lets anyone - not just analysts - ask questions of their data and build dashboards without writing SQL. Founded in 2014 and spun out of the Expa venture studio, it pairs a friendly visual query builder with a full SQL editor, connects to 20+ databases, and offers white-label embedding so software companies can ship customer-facing analytics. With a free self-hosted edition and paid Cloud and Enterprise tiers, Metabase is used by tens of thousands of companies worldwide.