Here's the two-hundred seventh 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 $693M for Tenstorrent, major news for LiquidAI, Plane, & Godot, an opportunity for a technical docs writer in AI x Crypto, and more exciting ecosystem news.
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $693M
- Tenstorrent, an AI hardware builder on RISC-V chips, announced their $693M Series D led by Samsung Securities and AFW Partners. Link
📚 COSS Content
Brian Armstrong: "Reminder that you can earn $RSC on @ResearchHub by contributing to science - Write peer reviews - Answer scientific questions - Submit interesting pre-prints One professor in Brazil told us they are earning more writing peer reviews on ResearchHub than in their day job." Link
Vihar Kurama: "hyper mode on @planepowers!! must try. available on both community and commercial editions." Link
JJ: "Happy to report @hoppscotch_io is growing fast, crossing millions in ARR, PROFITABLE, well into millions of users + we're now hiring founding growth / marketing / sales teams. All from zero 3 years ago led by a very lean team of 12 folks. @LiyasThomas is a total superstar." Link
Steven Tey: "November was a solid month for @dubdotco: ◆ Clicks tracked → 18M ◆ Links created → 112K ◆ Total active domains → 5,273 ◆ MRR went up by 11.5% Excited to keep the momentum going in December" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "got a demo of @planepowers from @vamsi_kurama today and i must say its seriously impressive jira meets notion but open source and looking nice?!" Link
JJ: "Big announcements next week." Link
Plane: "v0.24.0 drops with instant page loads, private storage, and admin superpowers Your experience with our Community Edition will never be the same again." Link
Armin W. Thomas: "Today, we report advances in automated neural network architecture design and customization that we have been working on @LiquidAI_, offering an end-to-end process to tailor architectures to the demands of any task, metric, and hardware." Link
Niko McCarty: "Indian gov't is buying a subscription to 13,000 academic journals, and then making them all available to "18 million students, faculty, and researchers" for free. The cost is $715 million over 3 years. It includes Elsevier, Nature, and AAAS. Have any other countries done this?" Link
Steven Tey: "After almost a year, we just shipped a fresh coat of paint to dub.co Here's why we did it" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "someone asks for a Loom alternative, 20+ immediately recommend @Cap we're building something special here anyway... so much to do. Back to it." Link
Godot Engine: "It's been over 10 years now that #Godot has been developed in the open, with code contributions from 2,800 users. Today, we reached the issue #100,000 on GitHub: github.com/godotengine/go..." Link
JJ: "100% sure that @planepowers is the fastest growing open source startup in history and maybe tracking to be the fastest growing software company (that doesn't rent its foundation models, that's a different species) in history, too. It's an honor to work closely with Vamsi Kurama and Vihar Kurama as founding partners last year --- @OSSCapital is so privileged." Link
Didier Lopes: "We have a very bottom-up approach to pay for software at OpenBB Each person has the autonomy to decide which software to use at each point in time I particularly love when the team asks to use products from friends and people I look up to Today that happened - we are now on the Pro tier of @dubdotco from @steventey" Link
const: "very inefficient way to make a super computer" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "this morning I celebrated the first couple hours of my birthday by implementing SAML SSO into @Cap" Link
JJ: "Such an incredible career and journey. Congratulations to Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses) on building @GitLab from zero to tens of billions in value creation for his shareholders, and much more for the world." Link
Sid Sijbrandij: "On today's earnings call, I announced my transition from @GitLab's CEO to the Executive Chair of the Board. I want more time to focus on my cancer treatment and health. My treatments are going well, my cancer has not metastasized, and I'm working towards making a full recovery." Link
Joscha Bach: "@LiquidAI_ has won the Nevy Award (emerging tech company of the year). So proud of our team!" Link
JJ: "Going on a podcast today. Guess the topic." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,130 jobs and 328 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "If you are a superstar technical docs writer with a background in AI and crypto, please DM me." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 7.96% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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