GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij founded Open Core Ventures (OCV) to fund outstanding open-source creators. The mission: incentivize open-source development to increase transparency in tech, fight monopolization, and speed up research and development.
We partnered with OCV and worked with about a dozen of their portfolio companies to build visual identities, marketing sites, and open core software products. Most recently, OCV’s head of content reached out with a challenge: OCV is far from a traditional venture capital firm, but it really looked like one. Our job was to revamp their visual identity to make their brand feel as fresh as their business model.