We are a team of 7. There is the growth, finance, and the tech team, along with our two co-founders.
The tech team has back-end & front-end devs. All with their very own talents and specialties. They are the ones who help build the product that you see today. And debug in under 30 minutes. Yep, they are that reactive 😉
The finance team speaks for itself! This is where the team makes sure that we're not financing weird stuff and that those who use our platform are legit users.
The growth team is probably the most "visible". They're the ones who are contacting you daily and making sure everything is going well. We are based in San Francisco. Every month, we gather together during our team off-site, because we like each other :).
Currently, we do not have any job openings! But hey, if we do, we will be sure to communicate on it.
We find and fund elite developers working on side projects that are so complex that AIs/agents fail to help them code.
Yep, that's us. But how did we come to this?
We started in 2023 by building a platform to contribute to open source.
Over the years, we’ve worked to:
Make it easy for any maintainer to get visibility, contributors, and actual help
Make it easy for any contributor to find a project and a good first issue (without reading 14 outdated READMEs)
Provide a "matching engine" where contributors are recommended projects based on their skills and interests.
Show metrics for maintainers: who’s looking at your project, who applied, and how experienced they are.
We spent years mastering something most companies never crack: finding elite developers and funding their best work.
By 2024, we'd distributed $15M to 400 open source projects, building an expertise in what makes truly exceptional code, and how to fund it without micromanagement.
Then we moved to San Francisco, and the top AI labs pulled us aside with a problem:
They confessed a hard reality: their coding agents were acing toy benchmarks but failing catastrophically on real-world systems, on the kind of intricate, closed-source, deeply contextual code that OnlyDust’s network lived for.
That’s when it clicked.
We reoriented everything toward a new mission: funding engineers whose code breaks AI.
Today, OnlyDust (operating under our Ctrl+G brand for AI labs) partners with the world’s top research teams to turn elite, private codebases into the most rigorous coding benchmarks ever built.
We no longer just fund open source. We fund the impossible, so machines can one day catch up to human ingenuity.
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