The company behind OpenProject
OpenProject GmbH
OpenProject is made by OpenProject GmbH, a privately held company in Berlin that develops it as open source software. It earns money from its paid Enterprise edition, hosting, and training and consulting, while the Community edition is free to download and run.
openproject.orgRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
OpenProject at a glance
- Chief executive
- Niels Lindenthal
- Based in
- Berlin, Germany
- Team
- A remote team spread across Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Greece, the USA, Nepal, Kenya, Panama and Romania, according to its about page, which gives no headcount
- Ownership
- Privately held
OpenProject's CEO and founders
The people OpenProject GmbH names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held: its June 2026 press release on the msg partnership calls both companies Germany-based and privately held, and its imprint names OpenProject GmbH, registered in Berlin, with Niels Lindenthal as CEO. openproject.org
- Based in
- Berlin, Germany openproject.org
- Team
- A remote team spread across Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Greece, the USA, Nepal, Kenya, Panama and Romania, according to its about page, which gives no headcount openproject.org
- Hiring
- 4 open roles on its job board, read Oct 18, 2026 openproject-gmbh.jobs.personio.com
- Reseller program
- Free to join. Resellers get the Enterprise edition at 25% off for their customers and keep all revenue from their own services and implementations, and commit to bringing one paid customer per quarter. openproject.org
Jobs at OpenProject
OpenProject has 4 open roles, most in Sales & Key Accounts (1), Customer Success (1) and Development (1). Pick one to read it and apply on OpenProject’s own site.
- Customer Support & Success SpecialistApply
Customer Success · Remote · posted Aug 27, 2026
- (Senior) Account Manager - EuropeApply
Sales & Key Accounts · Remote · posted Aug 20, 2026
- Speculative Application - if you couldn't find the right role among our job postingsApply
People & Organization · Remote · posted Mar 19, 2026
- Senior Ruby on Rails DeveloperApply
Development · Remote · posted Feb 5, 2026
Read from OpenProject’s job board on Personio on Oct 18, 2026 and checked every day. Applications go to OpenProject, not to us.
OpenProject on social media and the web
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/openproject
- YouTubeyoutube.com/c/OpenProjectCommunity
- Blueskybsky.app/profile/openproject.bsky.social
- Redditreddit.com/r/openproject
- GitHubgithub.com/opf/openproject
- Blog · openproject.org
- Changelog · openproject.org
- Newsletter · openproject.org
- Community · community.openproject.org
- Roadmap · openproject.org
- Careers · openproject.org
Only accounts OpenProject GmbH links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact OpenProject GmbH
The ways OpenProject GmbH publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
OpenProject news and launches
- Oct 15, 2026OpenProject 17.9.2
- Oct 1, 2026OpenProject 17.9.1
- Sep 30, 2026OpenProject 17.9.0
- Sep 2, 2026OpenProject 17.8.0
Media kit
The OpenProject GmbH media kit
Everything on this page as a designed PDF to keep or pass on: the facts, the people, the funding with a chart of every round, the products with their grades and pictures, the news and every official channel. Put together by ToolGPA, not by OpenProject GmbH.
Questions about OpenProject the company
Who is the CEO of OpenProject?
Niels Lindenthal is OpenProject GmbH's founder and CEO, according to openproject.org, as read on Oct 18, 2026.
Who founded OpenProject?
Niels Lindenthal is named as a founder of OpenProject GmbH.
Who owns OpenProject?
Privately held: its June 2026 press release on the msg partnership calls both companies Germany-based and privately held, and its imprint names OpenProject GmbH, registered in Berlin, with Niels Lindenthal as CEO.
Where is OpenProject based?
OpenProject GmbH gives its base as Berlin, Germany.
How many people work at OpenProject?
A remote team spread across Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Greece, the USA, Nepal, Kenya, Panama and Romania, according to its about page, which gives no headcount.
Is OpenProject hiring?
Yes. OpenProject’s job board listed 4 open roles on Oct 18, 2026, most in Sales & Key Accounts (1), Customer Success (1) and Development (1). You apply on its own site: https://openproject-gmbh.jobs.personio.com/
Is OpenProject on social media?
OpenProject GmbH links to its own accounts on LinkedIn, YouTube, Bluesky, Reddit and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from OpenProject GmbH's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from OpenProject GmbH’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.
