About

Unleashing the potential of collaboration through technology

Bring people together and create impactful solutions

Our Mission

Empower developers to contribute to open-source and collaborate at scale.

At Ovio, we strive to make the open source ecosystem more collaborative and accessible. We’re working both to make contributors feel confident about getting involved and to help maintainers feel empowered to activate their communities.

Our Values

Each of our values are aligned with what will guide us to achieve our mission

Collaboration

Building connections across the world and between sectors. Breaking silos. Fostering the exchange of competencies. This is what gets us up in the morning.

Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that diversity benefits us all, rather than takes away. We want to do our utmost to ensure that everyone can play their part.

Impact

We embrace positive change and work towards impacts, whether it’s through harnessing market forces for social good or helping individuals find their purpose and collaborate.

Trust

Constructive action is grounded in candid communication. Building trust allows us to serve the common good.

Our Founding Team

"After receiving a Master of Arts in Conflict, Security and Development from Sussex University, I started my career as a project manager for multiple social impact organizations around the world such as United Nations.

When I moved to San Francisco, I was shocked by local nonprofits struggling to leverage technology solutions. That is why I decided to co-create Ovio. I am most passionate about refugee rights and women’s rights. My appetite for social justice oriented my career towards humanitarian and social activities."

Tiphaine Boyer

Co-Founder & COO

Our Story

Why we started Ovio

We saw open source software as a path to create positive impact. To do so, our plan was simple: we’d find and showcase impact-oriented projects in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and make them more accessible to every developer.

In looking for these kinds of projects, we noticed some limits to the open source ecosystem, like easily getting an overview of a project and its impact or finding one that matched a contributor’s skills and interests. And we discovered that these limits were not applicable only to do-gooders like us, but were struggles any developer would face. That’s when our mission became clear: we needed to address OSS as a whole! If we succeed in improving collaboration at a global scale, more developers will become contributors, and we can all work together to tackle the most impactful projects.

They support Ovio

Our advisors and supporting partners help make Ovio strong through content expertise and financial support.

The Refiners

The Refiners is a San Francisco-based Seed Fund Program devoted to helping world-class entrepreneurs thrive in the bountiful yet complicated environment of Silicon Valley.

Sophie Durey

Sophie is a social impact investor with years of experience working with entrepreneurs. Today she is a Program Manager at Tamar Capital.

Francois de Kerret

François is the CEO of Simplyk, a free fundraising suite. As an entrepreneur himself, he enjoys helping fellow founders further their mission by sharing his expertise in B2B sales.