Open letter from CEO Pia Mancini to Open Collective's investors Wow, 2020 was one rollercoaster of a year. We are just now catching our breath! What really matters first: we have been humbled by the groups that came together on our platform and across our fiscal hosts to help each

The year 2019 was a good one for Open Collective in many ways, and the challenges ahead are making the team more focused and stronger together. TL;DR: * Our income grew 2.4x from $84k to $204k in 2019. * We have +16 months of runway ($825k in the bank, avg.

Dear Investors, Hope you are well! Before all, Xavier will be in San Francisco April 2–17th. He will send you a separate email to coordinate a time to meet since it’s been so long we haven’t touched base in person. Other exciting news, I’m moving to

Dear investors,

Open Collective 2018 investors update.

Dear investors, August was a really good month for us (total donations are +37%). Confirming the trend we’ve been seeing, 63% of donations are from sponsors of which +⅔ are recurring. Same for individuals backer where ⅔ are also recurring. Numbers are looking healthy! There’s space to convert one time

Dear investors, This is my first investors update since taking the role as CEO. We recently announced the team changes publicly and I wrote a blog post [https://blog.opencollective.com/my-new-role-at-open-collective/] about why I couldn’t be more excited to take on this new responsibility. Thank you all for

Sorry for the delay in publishing this. We had to wait to make the team update about Pia and Aseem public before posting this.

Dear investors, February was a short month but we broke through the bar of $100k in donations for the month 🎉 It’s a good milestone but it’s still quite a small number (remember, we only take 5%, so that’s $5k revenue per month, far from being enough to

Dear investors, Here are the latest from the front. Team Lincoln Clarete [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lincoln-clarete-b0194158/] (cced) has joined the team as our first full time engineer! Originally from Brazil, he made his way to New York in 2012 where he worked at Yipit [https://yipit.com] and

Dear investors, Happy new year! (never too late!) December was a good month. Our focus for January is retention. Improve emails to collectives and backers, update credit cards when they expire, etc. Our hiring pipeline is good and we hope to close one candidate this month. * Our Open Source foundation

Dear investors, November was a poor month for us. Total donations dipped after a consecutive increase for several months. Some of it was expected due to large one-time donations in October. Some of it was unexpected like no growth in recurring donations. It’s a few factors — we believe largest

Dear investors,

Dear investors, Sorry for the delay, been busy with the release of Open Collective v2 [https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-v2-is-live/]. It includes lots of new features: save credit card on file, customize tiers/rewards, create an organization so employees can donate on the company’s behalf (e.g. https://opencollective.

Dear investors, here is the update for August 2017

Dear investors, we now have closed the round. All the money is in the bank. Welcome aboard! We are grateful to have the opportunity to have…

After a 6 month hiatus (for good reasons because we were fundraising and regulations don’t allow us to publicly solicitate), here is our…