Here's the one-hundred thirty-ninth issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.
We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw $24.5M in funding announcements from Nomic AI, Inngest, Polar, Chipflow, Primal, and Helicone, upcoming announcements for Open Core Summit keynotes, Godot leading the gaming industry, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $24.5M
- Nomic AI, building open-source AI tools, announced their $17M Series A led by Coatue. Link
- Inngest, a workflow platform for devs, announced their $3M Seed led by GGV. Link
- Polar, providing pledges for open-source backlogs, announced their $1.8M pre-seed led by Mischief & Abstract. Link
- Chipflow, a platform for open-source chip design, announced their £1.2M pre-seed led by Fontinalis Partners. Link
- Primal, building apps on Nostr, announced their $1M Seed led by Ten31 and Hivemind Ventures. Link
- Helicone, a monitoring platform for generative AI, announced their $500K funding round. Link
📚 COSS Content
Ramin Hasani: "3 hours ago on @Forbes, Daniela Rus tells you about our invention Liquid nets! @mlech26l, myself, @xanamini & Daniela at @MIT_CSAIL pushed the expressivity boundary of DL systems to a new regime beyond what was achievable before. https://t.co/OB5knI8Ivh" Link
JJ: "When there are 5+ actively maintained fast growing open source alternatives attempting to disrupt a given $$$$ proprietary incumbent, there is vastly sufficient evidence for the following things having a very high propensity for being true: --- One of the open alternatives could... https://t.co/rhqGoWMVFE" Link
Juan Linietsky: "GMTK Game Jam weekend, Let's wait for official numbers, but I can't seriously believe this. Completely out of this world! https://t.co/uAb51mOTrv" Link
JJ: "Announcing 🔥🔥🔥 keynotes next week! https://t.co/RkPxi63XV5" Link
JJ: "Pretty epic. https://t.co/HlWHWFJzjP" Link
JJ: "🧠🔥 https://t.co/C7pvmrDMyv https://t.co/7oZDaMDpXX" Link
W4 Games: "The @W4Games team will be at @gamescom in August, sponsoring a @godotengine ecosystem booth together with @RamatakInc. We're excited to meet you there and show more of our upcoming #GodotEngine products announced at GDC: 🕹️ Console ports ☁️ Cloud services https://t.co/RiU5eGDFb9" Link
Liyas Thomas: "Rescue your APIs from pesky bugs!! 🐛 This caped UFO will swoop in like a debugging superhero 🛸 Get https://t.co/fSCuklXF1n now ⚡️ https://t.co/Bc6aMPdThP" Link
AppFlowy: "v0.2.6 is out https://t.co/QqEaUGYGe9 What's your favorite Google font? Roboto, Open Sans, Poppins, or Noto Sans Mono? You can now use any @googlefonts in @appflowy. https://t.co/axmwWhoH5e" Link
Wasmer: "The gates are open! 🎉 We're letting people in to try Wasmer Edge 🚀 How would you use Wasmer Edge ? P.S. Interesting replies get their invites fast tracked 💨 #Wasm #Wasix #Wasmer #Cloud #edge #edgecomputing" Link
Alexis Ohanian 🧠: "The world if everyone contributed to open-source software https://t.co/WDUgH0oyfF https://t.co/xlzOPGOUSr" Link
Kiran: "@tekbog Have you heard about our lord and savior @hoppscotch_io https://t.co/XgLY3p9Fqo" Link
Together AI: "We've got BIG news! We just launched Together API & Together Compute --- a full stack for developers to build with open-source AI 🚀 Sign up to fine-tune & run 50+ of the world's leading open-source models like RedPajama, LLaMA, Falcon & Stable Diffusion: https://t.co/IMjX88xORK https://t.co/JGa071pkep" Link
Sid Sijbrandij: "Contrary to what some may believe, open core is a way to sustain open source in the long run. If open core companies follow some basic principles, we can overcome common misconceptions about the model and make more software more open. https://t.co/BhfWWHdqzr" Link
Didier Lopes: "This is the new course built by @pyquantnews and @mdancho84 : Build algo trading strategies with Python (that actually profit) It features prominently @openbb_finance and other python libraries. If you are serious about becoming a quant, THIS IS IT! https://t.co/hBYG97JZNZ" Link
Peer Richelsen 🗓🍊⚡️: "really cool story https://t.co/bUnmM8g4K2" Link
Enias Cailliau: "🚀Just made my first (of many) contributions to @a16z's AI companion repo! 🎉 Their repo is spreading like wildfire. Already at a whopping 2.3K stars ⭐️ Thank you @stuffyokodraws & @martin for making it happen. Full steam ahead! 🚢 https://t.co/vjJPGmLcYp" Link
Replit ⠕: "State of AI Development - 34000% growth in AI projects - @OpenAI dominance - Rise of Open Source with @huggingface - The growth of @LangChainAI - And more Read more: https://t.co/jmfuhIaQCT" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Slashdot: "Meta To Release Open-Source Commercial AI Model To Compete With OpenAI, Google https://t.co/7LEQ4EAzIB" Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 3,451 jobs and 288 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets up 6.68% last week
- Latest $COSS markets snapshot below as of market close last Friday courtesy of Koyfin.
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