Here's the sixty-seventh issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every Sunday afternoon (Pacific Time) 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).
This last week saw $250M in COSS funding announcements from Voltron Data, Temporal, Kubecost, Permit.io, and KSOC, plus some new thought pieces from JJ, news from Remix and Elastic, and 10K stars for Cal.com!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $250M
Voltron Data, building tools for data science and Apache Arrow, announced their $22M Seed and $88M Series A. The Series A was led by Walden Catalyst. Link
Temporal, helping developers write reliable and highly scalable applications, announced their $103M Series B led by Index Ventures. Link
Kubecost, helping developers use Kubernetes efficiently at scale, announced their $25M Series A led by Coatue. Link
Permit.io, making a full-stack solution for permissions as a service, announced their $6M Seed led by NFX. Link
KSOC, an event-driven SaaS platform for Kubernetes, announced their $6M Seed led by .406 Ventures. Link
📚 COSS Content
VentureBeat: "There are some notable differences between vendor-led and community-driven open source software. Read more from @psawers here: https://t.co/yErVozEORa" Link
The Julia Language: "10 years ago, the original "Why We Created Julia" blog post was published. Today, we released a new blog post highlighting community members sharing "Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later": https://t.co/lhm9YGbq6k #JuliaLang" Link
GitHub: "📣 Our friends @httpie accidentally made themselves private so lost all their stars recently. They fixed it straight away but now we need your help. Check out the project and give them a star for Valentines if you still love them ❤️ https://t.co/kw9lrcKHpE" Link
Manish R Jain | mrjn.eth: "As of yesterday, I have resigned from my position as the CEO of Dgraph Labs, and a board member. This was a long, stressful and painful decision that I have been working on avoiding for the past year. But, I couldn't. https://t.co/WlwdBbYj0s" Link
GitHub: "Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community and used their knowledge and passion to help others. https://t.co/POWdPdWPhV" Link
peerrich.eth 🗓🍊: "SaaS = value capture COSS = value creation https://t.co/03pehJoufh" Link
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "It has been very heart warming and awesome to see @jack stand for open source fundamentals, and for an open future. Great conversation: https://t.co/HtX7JkkgTu" Link
Remix 💿: "📣 Just released: Remix 1.2.0 🎉 - Simpler server builds 👍 - Single-file server builds, compile directly to @Cloudflare workers! 🔥 - Experimental @deno_land support 🦕 - 90 first-time contributors 🤯 - TONS of bug fixes 🐛 Full release notes 👇 https://t.co/MUh0CK2Pu6" Link
Elastic: "Elastic and @amazon have resolved the Elasticsearch trademark infringement lawsuit. Learn more on our blog: https://t.co/738RR78bRD" Link
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "The sheer number of @elastic competitors written in @rustlang or that have performance/overhead-optimized value propositions is... impressive." Link
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "Calendly is the proprietary version of @calcom. Airtable is the proprietary @nocodb. Notion is the proprietary @appflowy. Unity is the proprietary @godotengine. Postman is the proprietary @hoppscotch_io. Bloomberg is the proprietary @gamestonkt." Link
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "🧵 Visualizing @OSSCapital's multi-decade thesis: "Open source is eating software faster than software is eating the world" 👇🏼 https://t.co/Ngl6dcQVxX" Link
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "Latest piece I'm working on ✍️ ... Assessing the engineering centralization and VC influence characteristics of each of the top 5 most "successful" open source databases and public blockchains. 🤓💸 Feedback welcome ahead of dropping the post! https://t.co/O78hQD53w0" Link
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "✨ Shiny congratulations to @calcom on blazing past 10,000 stargazers ✨ https://t.co/Pq0ZFwLvbt" Link
Cal.com: "10,000 Stars ⭐️ 1,000 Forks 🍴 100 Contributors 👩💻 10 months old 📅 1 mission to connect a billion people 🚀 Thank you all! 🎉 Join https://t.co/RyMp9Q5BwD and make history with us https://t.co/0SCZMprVva" Link\
Joseph Jacks (JJ): "Closed source software generates scarcity. Open source software generates abundance. It is paradoxical that blockchains generate monetary scarcity." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
Akamai Technologies: "Big news: Developers will soon have an easier way to build, run, and secure apps and services. Akamai intends to acquire Linode. https://t.co/OaX2bSK3FT https://t.co/QmvuSlsIjj" Link
Snyk: "📢 Exciting news --- Snyk has acquired @FugueHQ! By joining forces, Fugue's capabilities will soon extend the Snyk Developer Security Platform, enabling the industry's first cloud security posture management (#CSPM) tool designed by and for developers. https://t.co/wESbIqjTAv" Link
Keyana Corliss: "Just a little flex from us at @databricks this morning 😎 $800m ARR, 80% growth rate, and 150% net retention rate. Thank you and good day! https://t.co/GoqB33gPXw" Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- Juan Linietsky: "Folks, if you believe companies only look for developers for the two major technologies you are mistaken. If you are a capable Godot developer and are looking for jobs, I suggest you add it to your LinkedIn profile. https://t.co/ZtTmhEwfOe" Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 9.96% last week
Latest $COSS markets snapshot below as of market close last Friday courtesy of Koyfin.
Oldest comments (0)