Here's the two-hundred twenty-fifth 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$220M in funding announcements from Tailscale and Tessell, Cloudflare acquire Outerbase and Honeycomb acquire Grit, Cal.com hiring a new Head of Platform, updates from TAO.app, Godot, and Plane, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $220M
- Tailscale, a zero-config VPN, announced their $160M Series C, led by Accel, CRV, and Insight Partners. Link
- Tessell, a cloud DBaaS platfornm , announced their $60M Series B led by WestBridge Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Link
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "As we continue to grow our truly world-class team of superstars ... We're super thrilled today to welcome Yasmine Ibrahim as our founding CCO (Chief Compliance Officer) at @LatentHoldings. Yasmine joins us with 9 years of AML experience having served in banking and stablecoin compliance, previously at Tether for the last 6 years. Latent's roadmap is focused on minimizing friction for on-boarding the world to Bittensor in service of democratizing permissionless AI for everyone. One critical aspect of this is stablecoin rails, tools and products --- which we will be sharing more about soon." Link
Cal.com: "We're excited to announce v5.2 with many goodies! cal.com/blog/v5-2 Salesforce enhancements, speed improvements, referral program, and more" Link
JJ: "Don't want to hype this too much... but I'm extremely excited to share that @latentholdings will be unveiling our first subnet next week. First subnet launched by the folks who maintain Bittensor docs, CLI, SDK, and a lot (most?) of the chain core itself. Let's just say it will be very spiritually aligned with the origins of the network. More soon." Link
JJ: "... developers who haven't abandoned @unitygames yet say they're preparing for the day they might have to --- despite the best efforts of the new Unity CEO and his team. "The Venn diagram of developers who use Unity and the developers I know who are evaluating @godotengine --- it's close to a perfect circle" ..." Link
Steven Tey: "This is a fantastic thread featuring some of our best features at @dubdotco Crazy part -- there's still so much to build: ◆ A/B testing (beta -- DM for access) ◆ Google Ads/SEO conversion tracking (WIP ) ◆ Deep link attribution ◆ Partner network ...and many more. We're building the all-in-one platform for growth marketing on top of our existing attribution infra -- and we'd love for you to give us a try!" Link
Corentin: "Dub is just so good, there's no competition In my opinion, it beats all link shorteners on the market, and it's fully open-source. → Real-time event streams → AI-powered insights and filtering → UTM builder, device & geo-targeting, link cloaking → Custom domains (even on the free plan!) → Dynamic redirects & bulk link management → Branded QR codes with logo customization → Password protection & link expiration → Custom link previews → Conversion tracking (clicks, leads, sales) → Run your own referral program & payouts → Easily import links from Bitly, Rebrandly, etc. → Easily import/export links from/as CSV @steventey and his team at @dubdotco built an amazing product and are constantly shipping new features, make sure to check them out!" Link
Forward Email: "@fwdemail is STILL the ONLY email provider with a PERFECT score across all major security tests. 100% open-source, in-memory processing, sandboxed mail, quantum-resistant encryption---Gmail, Proton, Tuta, and others can't match... forwardemail.net/technical-whit..." Link
Rayon Labs: "Wanted a comparison? You've got it. TLDR: Gradients is cheaper AND better. Some come close to the performance (Google Vertex) but at high cost per hour. Some come close to the cost (togetherai) but not even close to the performance. v3 Out Now. gradients.io" Link
WordPress: "Exciting news! WordPress 6.8 "Cecil" has arrived, celebrating the innovative spirit of jazz legend Cecil Taylor. This release enhances your experience with faster speeds, improved security, and a revamped Style Book for better design control. Dive into the bold new features today!" Link
Ventura Labs: "Ventura Labs Ep. 38 - Maciej Kula Maciej (@mcjkula) is the Co-Head of education at Latent Holdings (@latentholdings) and Founder of Learnbittensor.org (@learnbittensor) Timestamps: 2:02 - Introduction 2:57 - Maciej Kula meets Bittensor 6:00 - The Journey into Bittensor 8:43 - Understanding Bittensor: A Decentralized AI Network 11:55 - TAO and Alpha Halving: Key Concepts Explained 14:52 - The Dynamics of Miner Registration and Price Effects 18:07 - Exploring the Sum of Prices and Market Dynamics 20:47 - The Impact of Inactive Subnets on Pricing 24:08 - The Future of Bittensor and Community Insights 39:07 - Understanding Complexity in Bittensor 40:28 - Navigating Changes Post-dTAO 42:28 - Optimal Strategies for Alpha 48:39 - Exploring Proxy Wallets and Their Risks 52:40 - Future Use Cases for Proxy Wallets 55:11 - Common Questions and Community Engagement 59:40 - Advice for Newcomers to Bittensor 1:02:16 - Liquid Alpha: Understanding Its Impact" Link
Pri: "'Software should be beautiful.' @dubdotco Still one of my favorite product launch videos till date. Working on another one with the team. Coming super soon!" Link
JJ: ""Top" VCs are all hedge funds... the circle of life is complete." Link
Martin Donadieu - oss/acc: "Just bought @TryCompAI to finally get SOCII approved!" Link
JJ: "Our vision for TAO.app has barely been revealed... we are building the one-stop-shop destination for ALL Bittensor information (quantitative and qualitative) and execution (mining, staking, building, launching) related activity. Explorer = 5% of iceberg." Link
Solana: "looking absolutely sick @AIWayfinder is an incredible product too. can't wait for Colony to go fully live!" Link
Vamsi Kurama: "Plane MCP is now Open source This marks one of the first tiny but important steps towards our massive AI roadmap. For best support use Claude Desktop, we would keep improving support for various tools and interfaces shortly. GitHub: github.com/makeplane/plan..." Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "they grow up so quickly @calcom" Link
W4 Games: "We've just launched support for PlayStation 5! Now you can port your #GodotEngine game in just one click---with W4 Consoles. Porting has never been easier. Just build, click, and go! Learn more: w4games.com/w4consoles #Gamedev #PlayStation5" Link
Steven Tey: "New @dubdotco integrations page just dropped Featuring native integrations with @stripe, @zapier, @segment, @raycastapp, @shopify, @clerkdev, and many more." Link
Lewis oss/acc: "and we're open source if you need soc 2, iso 27001, gdpr or literally any other framework you can just get started without a sales/demo call rn trycomp.ai" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "be a legend. support open source projects." Link
Didier Lopes: "Tracking github repositories and OSS companies on OpenBB cc @COSS_Community @OSSCapital @JosephJacks_" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "i read a lot of "VC vs bootstrapped" here having done all four: - unprofitable bootstrapped - profitable bootstrapped - low growth, bad investors VC - high growth, great investors VC here is my tier list of my own personal experience:" Link
JJ: "We now have a discord server for TAO.app users ... please join here and share your feedback!" Link
Didier Lopes: "It took us a very long time to have OpenBB workspace be what it is today. But I love to see how different apps are starting to being built on it - without us having to touch on any data licensing. This is an example of a DTCC Swaps Trade for a client :)" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "we've been working on a loom -> @Cap importer. directly imports all of your videos, spaces, members etc. migrate all of your data, and then use Cap with your own domain (+ S3 storage if you wish). if you're interested in trying it out, DM me!" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Cloudflare acquired Outerbase, an AI platform to work with any database. Link
- Honeycomb acquired Grit, a software maintenance tool for cleaning tech debt. Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,6242 jobs and 333 companies hiring! Link
- Alexis Ohanian: "Our portfolio company @calcom is hiring for a leadership position. Don't miss out on the Head of Platform role and work with the team to help developers adopt scheduling infrastructure and APIs!" Link
- Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "i'm hiring a Head of Platform, to join our leadership team and lead our cal.com/platform developer-focussed API and React SDK you will directly report to @BaileyPumfleet and me, and work closely with Keith, our head of engineering you need a ton of technical skills, but also go-to-market experience and interest ex-founders preferred, but not required must have managed small teams in the past excellent english language skills, as it requires a lot of calls internal and externally pls apply or repost app.withrapha.com/job/1379?r=f49..." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets down 2.33% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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