Top UK open source companies to watch

Seldonhas created an open source machine learning platform called Seldon Core that’s designed to help businesses run and manage machine learning projects at scale.

Data scientists can use the platform to deploy models using any machine learning toolkit or programming language and integrate them into their own apps and services.

Canonicalis best known as the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions. It was created alongside Ubuntu to help it reach a wider market and it remains the leading provider of support services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise.

The company was launched in London in 2004 by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and now over 500 staff in more than 30 countries, and offices in four continents.

Tyk is an open source API gateway that organisations including Cisco, Trip Advisor and USA Today use maintain, manage, monitor, promote and protect their APIs in a user-friendly interface.

It can be installed on-premises, purchased as a cloud service, or as a multi-cloud deployment.

Easy Softwareproduces open source business software with visual outputs that are designed to be easy to use.

The software it offers includes Easy Project and Easy Redmine project management tools and Calculoid, a tool for quickly creating web calculators and pricing pages.

Siriushelps organisations introduce, run and manage infrastructures based on open source software by providing them with strategic consultancy, deployment and systems integration, training, 24-hour support, managed service provision, and outsourcing

In October 2012, the Weybridge-based company was awarded a place on the UK government G-Cloud programme, allowing it to provide open source products and services through the government’s Cloudstore.