AppFlowy, a Singapore-based provider of an open source project management platform for the enterprise, raised $6.4m in seed funding.
The round was led by OSS Capital with participation from Matt Mullenweg (Automattic), Steve Chen (YouTube), Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub), Bob Young (Red Hat), Amr Awadallah (Cloudera), as well as Justin Hoffman, Preetha Parthasarathy, Kevin Xu, Clint Smith, David Mytton, Paul Copplestone, Peer Richelsen, Maneesh Sharma, and Arek Zarowski.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development and grow the community.
Led by Annie Anqi Wang, AppFlowy provides a secure, open source workspace for wikis and projects, made to suit everyone. It enables users to
- Put control of their data
- Ensure the user interface is intuitive
- Make integration and customization easy with no vendor lock in
- Build a customized workspace with open source building blocks such as AppFlowy Editor and Kanban Board.
- Build an open source codebase with a community-driven open toolbox of plugins, templates, and themes so they can design and modify AppFlowy without limits.
AppFlowy launched on GitHub in November 2021 as an open source, Rust-based project built from the ground up by a team of two. Since launch, the company have grown a developer community consisting of hundreds of open source contributors and 40,000 stars with over 2,600 forks. The Discord community has grown to more than 3,500 members.
AppFlowy is now available for download on Linux, macOS, and Windows via appflowy.io and our GitHub release page. Additionally, users can find AppFlowy in package managers such as Homebrew and Flathub.
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21/11/2023