OCV's Catalyst v2 Application (Summer 2026)

The role

Participants will collaborate with OCV and their batch to establish and work towards clear, measurable objectives. The program focuses on metrics such as contributor growth, community expansion, and increased adoption for open source projects.

What you will do

• Collaborate with OCV and their batch to establish and work towards clear, measurable objectives
• Focus on metrics such as contributor growth, community expansion, and increased adoption

Required qualifications

• Open source projects such as developer tools, artificial intelligence infrastructure/implementation, and data transformation or any that solves a real problem and has potential for commercial viabilit

Benefits

• Support and mentorship from OCV team
• $10,000 to support the growth of Catalyst projects
• Potential for top-performing projects to become OCV companies

Before you apply

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
• Applications are due by June 28, although may close sooner if all eight spots are filled

About the company

Open Core Ventures (OCV) is an OSS project incubator aiming to support open source maintainers in the growth of their open source projects. OCV is committed to advancing the growth of open source through providing the sponsorship resources.