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COSS Weekly #95

Here's the ninety-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 $94.5M in funding announcements from Startree, Recurve, Privado, and RISC Zero, excitement across tech over Stable Diffusion, and discussions and project updates across the space!


COSS Funding: $94.5M

  • Startree, building real-time analytics for real-time apps, announced their $47M Series B led by GGV Capital. Link

  • Recurve, a platform for virtual power plants, announced their $18M Series B led by Calpine Energy Solutions. Link

  • Privado, embedding privacy into the software development lifecycle, announced their $17.5M funding round led by Insight Partners. Link

  • RISC Zero, building a zero-knowledge VM, announced their $12M Seed led by Bain Capital Crypto. Link


📚 COSS Content


💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

  • Jamin Ball: "HashiCorp quarter -$114M rev (+52% YoY) vs $102M consensus (12% beat) -$111M next Q guidance vs $107M consensus (4% raise) -$10.6M HashiCorp Cloud rev (+186% YoY) -$12m beat this Q, FY guide raised $18m - 134% NDR - 25 months GM adj. CAC payback - 81% GM - (52%) FCF Margin $HCP" Link
  • Jamin Ball: "Mongo earnings call takeaways Positives - No change in new business momentum or sales cycles - Expansion rates remain strong Negatives - Weaker consumption trends for Atlas, particularly in Europe and mid-market digital native customers - August consumption trends similar to Q2" Link
  • Jamin Ball: "HashiCorp commentary on macro. As a reminder they beat Q2 by $12m and raised FY guidance by $18m. This implies they would have raised FY guidance $23m absent any macro impact $HCP https://t.co/3NXYZmIFnc" Link

🛠️ COSS Jobs

  • 7,042 jobs and 239 companies hiring! Link

📊 $COSS - Public Markets

  • $COSS markets down 6.95% last week

  • Latest $COSS markets snapshot below as of market close last Friday courtesy of Koyfin.

Koyfin market data

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