Here's the two-hundred thirteenth 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 $2M in funding announcements from Dub, the world's first open-source quantum computer, an LLM designed for the semiconductor industry, exciting releases, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $2M
- Dub, the link shortener and conversion tracker, announced their $2M Seed led by OSS Capital. Link
- JJ: "Excited to announce that @OSSCapital led the $2M founding seed in @Dubdotco --- created by former @Vercel DevRel superstar @StevenTey (CEO). We are very honored to work with Steven in his mission to massively upgrade the internet. Congrats also to all the awesome angels who joined us: @rauchg @balajis @tod @koenbok @soleio @PaulYacoubian @jornvandijk @CuffeJamie @eoghan @_felx @pierre_burgy @peer_rich @alexhbass @damengchen @zenorocha @AndraVomir @thomaspaulmann" Link
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "Dub Conversions: Server-side link analytics that tracks clicks → signups → sales in real-time. Native integrations w/ payment & auth providers + AI reporting. Finally solving the marketing attribution black box for influencer campaigns, PLG, + cust. journey analytics. LFG!" Link
Jarrett Vaughan: "Bitcoin, Decentralization & Revolutionizing AI! On this episode of @TheWeb3Prof Podcast, we host @const_reborn Jacob Steeves, co-founder of Bittensor, to explore: Bitcoin's Cultural Roots Decentralizing AI with Blockchain From Vancouver to Peru---A Visionary's Journey Don't miss how Bittensor is reshaping AI and why decentralization is the future. Listen Now youtube.com/watch?v=9I5vWg... #Web3ProfPodcast #Bittensor #BitcoinCulture #DecentralizedAI #Web3" Link
AppFlowy: "Busy shipping to kick off 2025, so we're a bit late to the 2024 Wrapped game Highlights from an incredible year: Cloud: From local-only to cloud-enabled Self-hosting: Thousands now self-host their data Collaboration: Real-time editing, Google Docs style Cloud Pro Plan: More features for power users Mobile: Launched on App Stores AppFlowy AI: Work with AI inside AppFlowy Web: AppFlowy in your browser at appflowy.com" Link
Matt Trifiro: "Are commercial interests a threat---or the key to making open source truly unstoppable? Read my thoughts about it here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur..." Link
Christopher Nguyen ⽗: "Independent evaluation of #SemiKong v1.0 by Francis Benistant, now available on GitHub. Check it out! Refresher on SemiKong: ・ai.meta.com/blog/aitomatic... ・tomshardware.com/tech-industry/... ・venturebeat.com/ai/aitomatics-... github.com/FBTCAD/SemiKon..." Link
Indian Tech & Infra: "India is the biggest source of unicorn founders for the US." Link
Fish | Datura: "Calling all subnet owners. You can now change your subnet name, logo, bio, website, github, social links, roadmap, pitch deck, achievements, and make announcements for your customized page on taomarketcap. Feel free to checkout taomarketcap.com/subnets/51 as an example. This will help all owners get the most important information across to your subnet/subnet token investors." Link
The ResearchHub Journal: "Science should belong to scientists, not publishers. That's why we created the ResearchHub Journal: an open-access platform where authors get rapid, constructive feedback through expert open peer reviews---and reviewers are paid for their work. blog.researchhub.foundation/the-researchhu..." Link
Dub.co: "Introducing real-time webhooks for Dub. Leverage webhooks to connect Dub with your data stack and workflows. Featuring native integrations with @segment, @zapier, @slackhq, @tinybirdco, and more." Link
Forward Email: "It's 2025 & we're the ONLY 100% open-source email service for 500,000+ domains and @Canonical @netflix @linuxfoundation @ThePHPF @foxnewsradio @disneyadsales @jquery @LineageAndroid @Ubuntu @Cambridge_Uni @UofMaryland @swarthmore @TuftsUniversity @flydotio @6a6763 @izs @dhh" Link
TechCrunch: "Dub.co is an open-source URL shortener and link attribution engine packed into one tcrn.ch/40gae3v" Link
Steven Tey: "Today marks exactly 1 year since @dubdotco started as a company. Since then, we've reached 900+ paying customers, 1M+ links created, and 150M+ clicks tracked. To celebrate that, we're launching a new About page to showcase our company vision, values, team, and investors" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "HUGE new @Cap update coming out tomorrow. Tons of UI and performance improvements, fixes, 60FPS/Export resolution picker & more. Windows version ready. Almost a full month of work." Link
Steven Tey: "Today marks the end of @dubdotco's first-ever launch week. We shipped 3 big announcements in the last 3 days: ◆ Dub Conversions ◆ Real-time webhooks ◆ New About page + 1-year anniversary A full recap of what we launched" Link
vitalik.eth: "Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo. Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating." Link
Tom's Hardware: "SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM --- it claims to bring new chips to market 30% faster trib.al/D6YVSw2" Link
Dr Singularity: "This is BIG. Open source AI has been around for a long time, and now we will also have open source quantum computers... The world's first open-source trapped-ion quantum computer has been unveiled ..." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,354 jobs and 328 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 3.57% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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