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COSS Weekly #201

Here's the two-hundred first 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 $44M in funding announcements from Socket and Sidero Labs, a new podcast from Hoppscotch, a 36-hour feature building marathon from Plane, announcements from OpenBB, and more!

Enjoy!


💰 COSS Funding: $44M

  • Socket, a dev-first security platform, announced their $40M Series B led by Abstract Ventures. Link
  • Sidero Labs, reducing friction in managing Kubernetes applications, announced their $4M Seed led by Hiro Capital. Link

📚 COSS Content

  • JJ: "Huge win for @didier_lopes and team @openbb_finance --- welcome Heidi." Link

  • JJ: "Such a wonderful treat to have the legendary Canadian founders of @Shopify and @RedHat join us during the @LiquidAI_ launch this week in Cambridge, Boston. @CaretakerBob and @Tobi are treasures and have created many trillions in value for humanity. We are inspired and blessed." Link

  • Henit Chobisa: "The closing of 36 Hours. All Milestones Reached, Jira, Github, Gitlab, Asana, Slack. Let me show you The Slack Integration @planepowers with thread sync. Create issues directly from Slack Messages and keep the thread in sync with Plane Comments. Absolute '0' hops." Link

  • Plane: "Cool. Now imagine you could group your Custom Props into a panel right next to the default. Cooking now." Link

  • AppFlowy: "v0.7.2 is out, loads of QoL improvements Import from Notion in-app, supporting self-hosters Copy link to block Calendar filters Turn content blocks into other types of content blocks Share and publish pages on mobile Create new subpages while typing using +, @, or,[[" Link

  • Matt Mullenweg: "Today was my 19th year at @automattic. :)" Link

  • JJ: "Awesome new post on decentralized incentivization of growing neural networks in the hidden size dimension --- by the special team (physics post-docs) running Bittensor's subnet 29 (@Coldint_ .. "collective distributed incentivized training"). coldint.io/growing-models..." Link

  • //Kalos: "Wanna know what's cooler... 1. Not needing to know how to code 2. Not being limited to @base 3. Having a wallet on all supported networks 4.Not needing to know how to use bridges 5. Writing and deploying contracts on all supported networks 6. Creating a front end for contracts for people to use 7. Contributing to the knowledge graph and abilities of the agents with custom functions that upgrade all agents That's @AIWayfinder" Link

  • JJ: "I'm in Boston this week with @LiquidAI_. Here's a great primer on what we're up to: medium.com/@researchgraph..." Link

  • Internet Archive: "Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/int..." Link

  • JJ: "Awesome new mobile apps for @planepowers have landed --- the leading open source platform for the future of work! Project management Nirvana has arrived: apps.apple.com/us/app/plane/i..." Link

  • Plane: "Looks like we are trending on GitHub again. Thanks for all the love and support." Link

  • Hamed Bahram: "In this conversation, @steventey shares his journey from being a developer advocate at @vercel to founding @dubdotco, a link management platform." Link

  • JJ: "LFMs (@LiquidAI_ foundation models) are fundamentally explainable !" Link

  • Formbricks: "we've hit a huuuge milestone: 10M responses To celebrate, we're giving away a $100 Amazon voucher to the first person who correctly guesses how many of the 10M responses were gathered on self-hosted Formbricks instances is it 3.33M? or 5.69M? your answer needs to be accurate to the second decimal" Link

  • WordPress: "The WordPress community has reached 1,000 block themes in almost 1,000 days, a milestone that reflects the growth and potential of the Site Editor. #WordPress" Link

  • Plane: "Surprise! We are working non-stop for the next 36 hours to get some of the most-awaited integrations, importers, and Plane Intelligence features to you. In these 36 hours, we will get superbly close to the finish line for, - the Jira importer - the Linear importer - the Asana importer - the GitHub integration - the GitLab integration - the Slack Integration - Pi Chat - Intelligent dedupe - Pages experience We will post updates on this thread every few hours and as we get to our short-short milestones. Stay tuned." Link

  • Hoppscotch: "Introducing Hopp Cast - a fresh, new podcast series by Hoppscotch, coming soon to our YouTube channel We're expanding the conversation beyond APIs to explore the full spectrum of the software development experience. From building developer products and scaling startups to uncovering the latest industry trends and reflecting on the human side of open-source, Hopp Cast is all about giving back to our amazing community. Here's a sneak peek from our first episode, where we chat with @prxtl on topics that go way beyond app deployment and release strategies. Mark your calendars, the episode drops on October 28, 2024, you won't want to miss it!" Link

  • JJ: "Excellent piece by @jaminball on the increased perversion of venture capital (misaligned incentives) over the last 5 years .. and why more GPs optimize for fees vs. producing generational returns. IMHO, here's the solution: Focused (narrow thesis), Small (< $100M fund sizes), Lean (solo / low single-digit decision makers) partnerships. cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judg..." Link

  • JJ: "Contributing to and/or creating open source technology that continuously improves will always be the highest performing investment you can possibly make. ️" Link

  • JJ: "Category creation !! And AI-powered and intent-driven interfaces for all crypto assets and interactions will redefine the current landscape of incumbents --- Coinbase and others already realize this, but the likelihood of being able to design the right abstractions and incentives is low. Not to mention the agility required to innovate the right way." Link


💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.


🛠️ COSS Jobs

  • 4,800 jobs and 327 companies hiring! Link
  • Feross: "That brings us to why we raised: We're actively hiring! Join our world-class team tackling one of the most urgent challenges in software today. We're looking for talent in engineering, product, and sales. Check out open roles: socket.dev/careers 9/10" Link

📊 $COSS - Public Markets

  • $COSS markets down 1.34% last week

  • Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin

Koyfin market data

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