How does your startup contribute back?Everything we do[1][2] at Fogbeam Labs is Open Source. And I mean, really, truly Open Source, not "faux-pen source". Our code is on GitHub, most everything is Apache ALv2 licensed, the issue tracker is public, and we use open mailing lists / IRC for project communication.
We try to avoid the "throw it over the wall" style of development in that sense. The biggest wart with our approach right now is that we don't have a lot of community collaborators who aren't part of Fogbeam, so there's not a lot of discussion with "the community". But that's because we haven't grown much of a community yet to discuss with.
We are also open to receiving pull requests / patches and don't ask for a CLA or any copyright assignment. The only expectation is that any contributions are licensed under the Apache ALv2 or corresponding license (which will always be a mainstream, OSI approved OSS license, not some weird license we make up ourselves).
[1]: http://fogbeam.github.io/
[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam