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Ubuntu - About the company

Ubuntu is a funded company based in London (United Kingdom), founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth. It operates as an Open source desktop operating system. The company has 131 active competitors, including 6 funded and 4 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Neverware, GNU and DBOS.

Company Details

Open source desktop operating system. It is an open-source, solution-driven orchestration tool that helps users deploy, manage and scale environments on any cloud. It is an open-source operating system that can be used to run from the desktop to the cloud, and internet-connected things.
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ubuntu.com
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Founded Year
2004
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Employee Count
1 - 10 as on Jul 01, 2024
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Ubuntu's funding and investors

Ubuntu is a funded company. Ubuntu has 1 institutional investor.

Ubuntu's founders and board of directors

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The founders of Ubuntu is Mark Shuttleworth. Mark Shuttleworth is the CEO of Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu's employee count trend

Ubuntu has 1 - 10 employees as of Jul 24. Here is Ubuntu's employee count trend over the years:
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Ubuntu's Competitors and alternates

Top competitors of Ubuntu include Neverware, GNU and DBOS. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Ubuntu, ranked by Tracxn score:
Rank
Company Details
Short Description
Total Funding
Investors
Tracxn Score
1st
Logo for Ubuntu
Ubuntu
2004, London (United Kingdom), Funding Raised
Open source desktop operating system
-
52/100
2nd
Logo for Neverware
Neverware
2011, New York City (United States), Acquired
Upgrade PCs/Macs with ChromeOS Flex: secure, cloud-based, and easy to manage
$14.2M
50/100
3rd
Logo for GNU
GNU
1983, United States, Unfunded
Operating systems for computing control
-
-
44/100
4th
Logo for DBOS
DBOS
2023, Cambridge (United States), Seed
Cloud based integrated serverless solutions for application development
$8.5M
44/100
5th
Logo for Arch Linux
Arch Linux
2002, Canada, Unfunded
Linux-based open source operating system for desktops
-
-
43/100
6th
Logo for Debian
Debian
1993, United States, Unfunded
Unix-like open source operating system for desktop
-
-
43/100
7th
Logo for Insyde Software
Insyde Software
1998, Westborough (United States), Public
Manufacturer of UEFI firmware solution for embedded applications
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43/100
8th
Logo for Unicon
Unicon
1993, Karlsruhe (Germany), Acquired
Platform offering enterprise operating system
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-
43/100
9th
Logo for CentOS
CentOS
2004, Raleigh (United States), Unfunded
Community-driven free software effort delivering a robust open-source Linux platform
-
-
42/100
10th
Logo for Tongxin Software
Tongxin Software
2019, Beijing (China), Series A
Provider of desktop and server operating system
$168M
42/100
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Ubuntu's Investments and acquisitions

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News related to Ubuntu

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Media has covered Ubuntu for a total of 14 events in the last 1 year, 14 of them have been about company updates.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS beta sports GNOME 50 and the Linux kernel 7.0Notebookcheck Publishing GmbHMar 27, 2026Ubuntu
Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Arrives with Linux 6.17 Kernel and MoreNotebookcheck Publishing GmbHSep 19, 2025Ubuntu
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