Here's the two-hundred twentieth 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$75M in funding announcements from SpecterOps, an innovation call from OSS Capital, Hoppscotch #1 on GitHub, updates from Appflowy and Plane, content from Heather Meeker's Chinstrap Community, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $75M
- SpecterOps, an adversary-focused cybersecurity company, announced their $75M Series B led by Insight Partners, Ansa Capital, and M12. Link
- JJ: "Need a COSS / open core alternative to W&B more than ever .... Great time to build this! Keen to fund. Please DM if you are doing this." Link
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "Thanks @SimonHoiberg for covering why @nocodb and @planepowers are so awesome..." Link
Hoppscotch: "We are trending #1 on GitHub" Link
Amrith: "Every other startup I come across uses @calcom So I built a site inspired by work with @linear dot com for Cal" Link
JJ: "Extremely impressed by our @planepowers SEO rankings --- top 4 organic Google results on first page even without the dot com." Link
AppFlowy: "Check for Updates on desktop Starting in v0.8.4, our desktop app can check for updates. Depending on your platform, it will either update the app directly or take you to our download page. Update now to enable this feature! appflowy.com/download" Link
Plane: "Our Commercial Edition, now housing our Pro and upcoming Business plans, is now even slicker and will soon support Coolify, Portainer, and other deployment methods to cover the needs of large and diverse teams. developers.plane.so/self-hosted" Link
W4 Games: "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Dominik Gotojuch from @robotgentleman reveals why #GODOT is the perfect fit for their unique game #developmentsofware vision. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/lmgJcvLlAi4 #GodotEngine" Link
JJ: "Thanks Bittensor." Link
Steven Tey: "February was a month of hypergrowth for @dubdotco. ◆ Clicks tracked → 30M (+32%) ◆ Links created → 1.7M (+765%) ◆ Conversions tracked → $60K (+400%) ◆ Revenue went up by 63% Excited to take this to the next level in March!" Link
Matt Mullenweg: "I had the good honor of being on @lennysan's podcast, which I wrote about here: ma.tt/2025/03/lennys... Check it out! Was a great conversation, covered a lot of ground." Link
Hoppscotch: "Hoppscotch v2025.2.0 is here! Our latest release is live---packed with 2 major announcements and many improvements. Check out what's new" Link
Liyas Thomas: "Hoppscotch is trending on GitHub" Link
Elie Steinbock: "Just tried out @dubdotco partners. Very clean. Not that I expected anything less from @steventey" Link
James LePage #Cloudfest: "WordPress should (and will) be the best vector database offering on the market... It's already the best CMS, with the best content editor." Link
Andras Bacsai: "A great video by @SimonHoiberg on the benefits of self-hosting and tips on saving money. Go watch it! (link next)" Link
JJ: "Be customer obsessed, not "capital war-chest" obsessed ... there is not a SINGLE example you can show me of a top 10 technology company in history that that played the "raise and crush" game to get to greatness. They ALL focused on customers and scaled from CUSTOMER capital." Link
W4 Games: "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with @ByttenStudio Discover why this BAFTA-nominated studio chooses #GodotEngine! Join Jay Baylis, studio director, as he shares insights on their journey and why #Godot is their engine of choice. Watch here: youtu.be/Fi0MDFEuakA" Link
JJ: "The ultimate pill is open source." Link
Bindu Reddy: "In 3 months Open Source models will over take Closed Source - R2 is expected next month - Llama-4 will be competitive with o1 and 3.7 - Qwen will drop one other update Together they can build on each others' innovations to top the leaderboards" Link
Plane: "On March 14, 2025, we will retire Plane One, our first paid upgrade launched over a year ago. New customers and existing users can choose from one of our subscription plans available on both our Cloud and self-hosted Plane." Link
Heather Meeker: "chinstrap.community/github-on-buil... #community #coss #github #githubrepo #opensource #oss" Link
JJ: "The most common piece of horse shit that VCs spew to try and justify their existence ... "If you don't talk to us or take our money, we will fund a competitor!"." Link
W4 Games: "Are you a #GodotEngine developer working with @Meta or creating #vrgames ? Discover how the latest #Godot XR MetaToolkit Extension update can enhance your workflow and unlock new possibilities! Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/GodotMetatoolk..." Link
NIK: "BREAKING: Microsoft has begun cutting ties with OpenAI and is now testing models from xAI, Meta and DeepSeek for replacements in Co-pilot it's so fucking over" Link
JJ: "Ozempic alternative (all natural and open source) just discovered. Ozempic added $500 BILLION to the market cap of @novonordisk since it started selling in December 2017." Link
Bailey Pumfleet: "Everyone wants to know the secret to growing fast. Here's the truth: There is no secret. Just: - Ship constantly - Listen to users - Fix what's broken - Repeat Yeah sure, you need to think of new ideas, but consistency wins every time. More ideas come when you're doing rather than thinking. It's boring. But it works." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- JJ: "So @CoreWeave founders own < 3% of company and sold $500M in secondary before IPO. Classic pump and dump. Public investors will hold a heavily inflated bag of financial engineering. Hard pass. S1 from earlier: sec.gov/Archives/edgar..." Link
- JJ: "Part of me thinks this should actually be illegal. Zero chance price / market manipulation are not introduced with this level of secondary perversion." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,651 jobs and 330 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets down 5.32% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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