Scarf pioneered usage intelligence for open source

Our Values

What we believe

We believe that if open source is part of your business, open source should be a part of your success. Usage analytics, which has historically been taboo in open source, can actually add tremendous value for your project, community, and commercial business. We believe that transparently sharing usage data aligns with the value of “open” in Open Source, and should be embraced, rather than discouraged.  

We are creating a world where users can contribute to any project, just by using it. 

As open source community members ourselves, we know privacy is key – which is why Scarf never retains personally identifiable information (PII). Our commitment to responsible data practices are why we are used by some of the largest open source projects and foundations in the world.

Leaders

We are building a global team of open source enthusiasts and experienced leaders

Avi Press

Founder & CEO

Investors

Hear it from our customers

Scarf makes it easy to understand how quickly new versions of Linkerd are being adopted and which components are being deployed—data that the container registries have and don't share with us otherwise.

Oliver Gould

Co-Founder / CTO Buoyant

It's much more popular than we thought. At this stage, we have about 9 million Docker downloads. By monitoring the SDK and game server downloads, we can understand the popularity of different SDKs and the specific uses of the game server, which we couldn't do before. Project observability improves your targeting and allows you to discover new companies for ABM campaigns

Mo Firouz

Co-founder of Heroic Labs

It’s important for us to understand who is using [our OSS web framework] IHP. Before using Scarf we’ve mostly relied on the data set of existing customers. . . . It only took us a couple of minutes to integrate the Scarf Gateway. Identify potential customers hidden within your OSS users, creating a new category of leads, Open Source Qualified Leads (OQLs)

Marc Scholten

Founder of Digitally Induced

Outbound outreach to Open Source Qualified Leads saw 2x higher response rates as compared to our outreach campaigns without Scarf data.

Dave Donahue

Head of Strategy, Unstructured

Today, we track over 36,000 users visiting the documentation. We can see those who are very actively engaged in the ongoing process. This helps us reach out to people in those organizations, effectively guiding our outreach process.

Mark Fussell

CEO and founder of Diagrid, co-creator of Dapr

I wish I installed [Scarf] the day we launched our docker file.

Peer Richelsen

Co-CEO, Chairman

[We have] been using Scarf to understand how Redpanda is being adopted, and most importantly, how to prioritize engineering efforts for the product. Turns out the world loves Redpanda + Kubernetes more than we thought!

Alexander Gallego

Founder & CEO, Redpanda Data

Scarf proved to be a valuable tool for Nestybox ... It’s one of the few tools that we used weekly and considered critical to better understand Nestybox’s users and potential customers.

Cesar Talledo

Co-Founder of Nestybox (Acquired by Docker)

The list of companies that surfaced from our data in Scarf was important for fundraising to show real-world usage. Showing that big companies were not only downloading Budibase but downloading every new version we released was huge.

Michael Shanks

Co-Founder & CEO at Budibase