Here's the two-hundred twenty-second 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 OpenBB, Cal.com, and Plane in the Top 10 on GitHub, a Harvard Business School study showing the impact of open-source software, Hoppscotch passing 70K stars 🚀, emerging M&A activity, new websites for OpenBB and OSS Capital, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
- clem: "Great research on open-source by @Harvard: - $4.15B invested in open-source generates $8.8T of value for companies (aka $1 invested in open-source = $2,000 of value created) - Companies would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist I suspect that these numbers and impact are even greater for AI than for software (would be great to study!)" Link
📚 COSS Content
W4 Games: "Meet W4 Games at @Official_GDC ! Curious about the real benefits of switching to #GodotEngine? Let's talk! Schedule a meeting with our team at #GDC2025 and explore how #GODOT can power your project." Link
Plane: "Importers are here! Move your work over from: - Jira Cloud + Jira Server - Linear - Asana Want the full scoop? Check our docs: docs.plane.so/importers/over..." Link
JJ: "Total revamp of the @OSSCapital website dropping this week ... Powered by @WordPress entirely. Huge thanks to @photomatt, @WordPressVIP and @automattic." Link
JJ: "Congrats to THREE of our @OSSCapital portfolio companies for trending in the top 10 rankings on @github today, out of hundreds of millions of projects... @openbb_finance, @calcom & @planepowers." Link
AppFlowy: "v0.8.7 is out Starting from this release, AppFlowy Local AI is FREE for everyone to use. We've also integrated Ollama, so now you can use AppFlowy AI features powered by a local model for ultimate privacy and security Please upgrade to the latest version of the desktop app and follow this guide to get started: appflowy.com/guide/appflowy... Linux support will come in the next release." Link
Liyas Thomas: "A huge shout-out to our @github community! We're delighted by the incredible support for the @hoppscotch_io repo, which has helped us surpass 70,000 GitHub Stars." Link
JJ: ".@OpenBB_finance has been killing it. @OSSCapital is proud lead investor since inception and shortly after the open source launch. Creator, Founder and CEO @Didier_Lopes has grown the ecosystem and community from zero to incredible impact across the financial services sector in just a few years. Check out our new website: OpenBB.co" Link
JJ: "The only certain long-term technology trend is the open source transformation of everything." Link
JJ: ""Open Source AI"" Link
Didier Lopes: "We just crossed 90k users. Should we open source our AI agent when we hit 100k?" Link
Kai-Fu Lee: "The biggest revelation from Deepseek is that Open Source has won. For a 1% difference in performance, it will be difficult for OpenAI to justify its price when the competition is free and formidable. -from my interview with Bloomberg" Link
Francisco Delgado: "I was kinda surprised when I sent in my first support request to the @dubdotco team I was just playing around with their API to see what was possible late one Wednesday night A few minutes later the same night @steventey responded saying he's pushed a fix and it'll be live by the morning I had been following Steven's story online for a while now and from the very first day as a customer it's obvious why he's had so much growth and success - beautifully designed app and developer experience - top notch support from Steven himself - consistent social media presence Founder mode: always on" Link
OpenAlternative: "70,000 GitHub stars and counting! Hoppscotch keeps growing! Shoutout to the @hoppscotch_io team openalternative.co/hoppscotch" Link
Plane: "This was yesterday. Today, github.com/makeplane/plane is trending in the top 10 globally. Check out the full list and start us if you haven't already. github.com/trending" Link
W4 Games: "Attending @Official_GDC ? Don't Miss This Talk! If you're at #GDC2025, make sure to catch @john_clayjohn and Albin Bernhardsson (Arm) as they dive into profiling and optimizing #GodotEngine for mobile games using Arm Performance Studio. tinyurl.com/ArmDevSummit" Link
Forward Email: "We are the only open-source email service. Period. Every other solution, including the one you recommended has a closed-source, unaudited back-end. forwardemail.net" Link
AngelList: "AngelList platform highlights: - $171B total assets on platform - 25K+ funds and syndicates supported - 108 unicorns invested in via AngelList - 1.24M+ K-1s delivered - and so much more. Our 2024 Year in Review is live" Link
Plane: "Missed our Pi Day launch? Check out the top announcements we dropped last week! Read on," Link
W4 Games: "We're excited to see more and more people sharing their experiences at #GDC2025 talking about #GodotEngine! If you didn't attend and want to know how to scale your project to #Godot, or maybe you're around the GDC gardens, send us a DM! We'd love to hear about your project!" Link
Didier Lopes: "This is my favorite graphic of the entire website. It depicts well how we think about data, security, control and AI." Link
//Kalos: "Collateralizing @AIWayfinder paths with $PROMPT generates yield from throughput - people asking it to perform that function. Effectively $PROMPT is securing the information the AI agent uses to execute the transaction." Link
JJ: "In the last 14 days alone, > 9 million $TAO (> $2 billion worth) has been traded in alpha tokens (native currency of dozens of subnetworks producing open source digital AI commodities) on Bittensor. TAO.app" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
JJ: "Ever since @IBM started acquiring COSS companies left and right. . . @RedHat @HashiCorp @DataStax, etc." Link
JJ: "M&A is absolutely back ... Nearly $50B in deals in Q1 2025 so far: $32B = @Wiz_io / @Google $6.5B = @AmpereComputing / @SoftBank $3.7B = @Shutterstock / @GettyImages $2.85B = @MoveWorks / @ServiceNow Multi-B = @DataStax / @IBM $1.9B = @DrenBio / @sanofi $1.5B = @NinjaTrader / @krakenfx" Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,611 jobs and 331 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets up 1.91% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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