Joseph Jacks
Founding Lead Seed Partner at Comp AI
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Jacks is the founder and General Partner of OSS Capital, the first venture firm dedicated exclusively to commercial open source (COSS), with 11 years of experience catalyzing and funding early-stage open source companies worldwide. He helped start the first Kubernetes startup and founded KubeCon before donating it to the Linux Foundation, giving him deep domain expertise in cloud-native ecosystems and community-driven product strategies. Joseph is known for being the first institutional investor at incorporation for many market-defining projects across Data, AI/ML, gaming, developer tools and infrastructure, and he remains hands-on as a board member and lead seed investor in multiple fast-growing startups. His portfolio supports over 100 million users, 10,000+ contributors and hundreds of thousands of GitHub stars, reflecting both breadth and impact across open source ecosystems. Based in Texas but operating globally, he blends operator experience with venture craft, often joining founders at day zero to help shape go-to-market, community, and governance. A less obvious strength: he scales networks as effectively as capital, leveraging relationships with founders/operators from HashiCorp to GitHub to accelerate founder success.
11 years of coding experience
Pre-school through High-school General Studies, Pre-school through High-school General Studies at Jacks Academy
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Github Skills (119)
crypto10
spreadsheet10
kubernetes10
finance10
go10
docker10
ai-agent9
monitoring9
kubernetes-cluster9
ai9
database9
azure9
postgresql9
economics9
security9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
josephjacks/os-projects
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
cossmedia/Closed-vs-Open-Core
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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