OpenBB
Founded 2021 by Didier Lopes; OSS investment-research platform — Bloomberg-Terminal-alternative. AGPLv3 + commercial OpenBB Pro. $11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + Y Combinator). AI agent (OpenBB Copilot) launched 2024.
Acquired · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 25 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- OSS investment-research platform with AI agents vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2021 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- openbb 5.0.0 (2026-09-29) registry fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- $11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + YC); assets acquired by OpenBQ, a non-profit (announced 2026-10-01) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest repo fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server repo fix
- Compliance
- soc2-type1, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: OSS investment research + AI agent
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
OSS-first differentiator; AGPLv3 + commercial dual-license; AI agent integrated.
Cons
OSS revenue model still maturing; AI features lag commercial AlphaSense/Hebbia.
Claims & capabilities
$11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + YC); AGPLv3 OSS + OpenBB Pro tier; OpenBB Copilot AI 2024
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — Open Data Platform exposes data to AI agents via MCP servers; Workspace MCP launched 2026-05-26
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (24 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is OSS investment-research platform with AI agents vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2021 by Didier Lopes; OSS investment-research platform — Bloomberg-Terminal-alte… vendor
- Claims / benefits $11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + YC); AGPLv3 OSS + OpenBB Pro tier; OpenBB Copilot AI 2024 vendor
- Created 2021 (founded) vendor
- Latest release openbb 5.0.0 (2026-09-29) registry
- License Apache-2.0 repo
- GitHub openbq-org/OpenBB — ~74.8k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding $11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + YC); assets acquired by OpenBQ, a non-profit (announced 20… vendor
- Customers / scale Indie traders + university research + small hedge funds vendor
- HQ New York vendor
- Founders / pedigree Didier Lopes (CEO; ex-Truvalue Labs) vendor
- Code/weights release AGPLv3 OSS vendor
- MCP support yes — Open Data Platform exposes data to AI agents via MCP servers; Workspace MCP launch… repo
- Optimised for OSS investment research + AI agent vendor
- Pros OSS-first differentiator; AGPLv3 + commercial dual-license; AI agent integrated. vendor
- Cons OSS revenue model still maturing; AI features lag commercial AlphaSense/Hebbia. vendor
- Project & sources openbb.co/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications soc2-type1,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages python,rest repo
- protocol-support mcp-server repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- License “AGPLv3 + commercial” → “Apache-2.0” source
- Latest release “not applicable — wrong section” → “openbb 5.0.0 (2026-09-29)” source
- Funding / ownership “$11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + YC)” → “$11M seed 2022 (OSS Capital + YC); assets acquired by OpenBQ, a non-profit (announced 2026-10-01)” source
- MCP support “not applicable — wrong section” → “yes — Open Data Platform exposes data to AI agents via MCP servers; Workspace MCP launched 2026-05-26” source
Related systems
Referenced by (1)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a openbb toolkit (agno.tools.openbb). (verified 2026-10-29)