When was Xen Project founded?

Xen Project was founded in 2003.

Where is Xen Project located?

Xen Project is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

How many employees does Xen Project have?

As of Sep 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Xen Project is 9.

Where does Xen Project rank among its competitors?

Xen Project ranks 4th amongst 21 active competitors, of which 2 are funded. It stands 8th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Red Hat, which secured $370K in Jan, 2023.

Who are the top competitors of Xen Project?

Xen Project's top competitors include Red Hat, iWeb and Virtual Iron Software. Among them, Red Hat secured the most recent funding round in January, 2023.

Xen Project - 2026 Company Profile, Funding, Competitors & Financials

Company Details

Xen Project: Open Source hypervisor project is being used by the largest of the cloud service providers today, such as AWS, Google cloud, Rackspace, Verizon cloud and ingrained into OpenStack. It is today been provided as part of Linux distribution under GNU License. In 2007, Citrix completed the acquisition of XenSource and maintained its development efforts and provides enterprise editions (support) as part of Xen family of products. In 2013, it was moved to Linux foundation as a open source collaborative project

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Founded Year

2003

Location

London, United Kingdom

Stage

Funding Raised

Investors

DCVC

Ranked

4^th among 21 active competitors

Employee Count

9 as on Sep 30, 2026

Similar Companies

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Xen Project is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Reports
Linux Labs Limited CIN: 8163495 , Germany, Active	Jul 30, 2012	-	2 (As on Jul 31, 2018)

Xen Project is a funded company. Xen Project has 1 institutional investor.

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Xen Project's employee count trend

Xen Project has 9 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Xen Project's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Xen Project include Red Hat, iWeb and Virtual Iron Software. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Xen Project, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Red Hat 1993, Raleigh (United States), Acquired	Openstack distribution and cluster management platform	-	Intel, Berkshire Hathaway & 9 others	71/100
2nd	iWeb 1996, Montreal (Canada), Acquired	Cloud hosting, server hosting and virtualization	$4.28M	Goldman Sachs, Stifel & 6 others	54/100
3rd	Virtual Iron Software 2003, Lowell (United States), Acquired	Software for server virtualization & virtual infrastructure management	$41.5M	Goldman Sachs, Sapphire Ventures & 5 others	42/100
4th	Xen Project 2003, London (United Kingdom), Funding Raised	Open Source \| Server Virtualization	-	DCVC	38/100
5th	oVirt 2013, Raleigh (United States), Public	Open-source virtualization solution for enterprise infrastructure management and community collaboration	-	-	38/100
6th	Beijing Trend Technology 2019, Haidian (China), Series B	GPU resource pooling and virtualization solution designed to support AI computing	-	China Merchants Bank, Prosperity7 Ventures ... & 9 others	36/100
7th	ScaleMP 2003, Fort Lee (United States), Series D	Virtualization for high-end computing	$18M	Leumi Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners ... & 6 others	35/100
8th	Sanrad 2000, Mahwah (United States), Acquired	iSCSI based server virtualization, storage hardware	$13M	Foundation Capital, Sequoia Capital & 1 others	35/100
9th	X-IO 1995, Colorado Springs (United States), Acqui-Hired	Innovator in the storage industry \| VDI	$120M	TCV, Westway Capital & 10 others	34/100
10th	TidalScale 2012, Santa Clara (United States), Deadpooled	Cloud based platform offering big data servers solutions	$91.3M	Infosys, HWVP & 8 others	34/100