Gecko Fund - Supporting Open Source in Finance (original) (raw)

EXANTE’s €1 million commitment to the projects powering modern finance.

Origin story

At EXANTE, our engineers realized that nearly 70% of the critical open-source stack we rely on every day was built and maintained by unpaid or under-resourced contributors. We created Gecko Fund to do something about it - direct support for the maintainers who keep this infrastructure running. Our goal is simple: the people who build the backbone of the industry should have what they need to keep it secure and thriving.

Our first grant

Kryo is a fast and highly efficient object graph serialization framework for Java. We're funding the maintainers to support critical infrastructure heavily relied upon in high-performance financial data processing and trading systems.

What we fund

We support the maintainers of widely used, critically important open-source technologies. Today, that means Erlang/OTP, Scala, the JVM ecosystem, JavaScript, and the tooling holding it all together. Tomorrow, it means whatever finance comes to depend on next.

Erlang / OTP Scala Java / JVM JavaScript Developer tooling Core libraries

Individuals, project teams, communities, and organisations can all apply. If your open-source project is essential to the finance ecosystem but falls outside the categories above, we still encourage you to reach out.