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COSS Weekly #96

Here's the ninety-sixth 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 $155M from Bitwarden, Gravitee, QA Wolf, and Raftt, exciting news from Stability AI and NASA, and content about leading COSS projects!

Enjoy!


COSS Funding: $155M

  • Bitwarden, the password manager, announced their $100M funding led by PSG. Link
  • Gravitee, an asynchronous API platform, announced their $30M Series B led by Riverside Acceleration Capital. Link
  • QA Wolf, an automated QA solution, announced their $20M funding round led by Inspired Capital. Link
  • Raftt, a provider of cloud development environments, announced their $5M Seed led by Aleph. Link
  • Stability AI, the makers of Stable Diffusion, rumored to be raising $100M at $1B valuation, with reported interest from Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Link

📚 COSS Content

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "Massive upgrade dropped for the leading open source neuroscience toolkit // @hubermanlab 🧠 🧐 ✅" Link

  • Cassidy: "Who is hiring DX (developer experience) folks + dev advocates? I know a handful of really experienced, awesome folks (as well as some people newer to the role) who are looking! Please share location/remote, job posting links, any details about the team, etc!" Link

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "Wow. @NASA just defaulted to open source @risc_v processors by @SiFive for all future space missions from the moon to Mars! 🚀 https://t.co/yKoJMetmXILink

  • COSS Community 🌏: "@aleph @royiarchy @SarafGahl @rafttio @Calcalistech https://t.co/wmqhM1T9xi" [Link](https://twitter.com/aleph/status/1567277364530548736)

  • Umbrel ☂️: "ayyyy folks, guess what?! you can now transform your umbrel into your own powerful media server --- aka become your own netflix 🔥 thanks to the 7 new apps launched in the umbrel app store today --- plex, jellyfin, transmission, sonarr, radarr, lidarr and prowlarr 🚀 https://t.co/7GNVMHieeGLink

  • OpenBB 🦋: "Europe: Wake me up when S̶e̶p̶t̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ Winter ends https://t.co/UTHYznL195Link

  • Lindsay Clark: "Open source databases are a big deal. They command the lion's share of developer attention and the market for managed services, consultancy and support is worth billions. The problem is, there's a big argument about what they are 🧵 1/11 https://t.co/gaZE0U47raLink

  • Emad: "Stable Diffusion 1.5 beta now available to try via API and #DreamStudio, let me know what you think. Much more tomorrow... https://t.co/eosxNTuOvLLink

  • Lightbend: "#Lightbend Changes its Software Licensing Model for #Akka Technology. Read blog to learn more: https://t.co/leYAqM1uxk #Microservices #Java #Scala #Cloud" Link

  • Jessica Lin: "Was a blast speaking w/ @pauldix @InfluxDB on 4 C's: Hot Takes on Infra + OSS Cos 1⃣ On-prem is not dead! 2⃣ Your OS community is not your top of funnel 3⃣ Make a plan about what you'll monetize (or not) 4⃣ Sometimes iterative changes work - but other times, you need bold bets https://t.co/QtX7hgAR5MLink

  • COSS Community 🌏: "@kenrickcai https://t.co/wihT2sF3G4" [Link](https://twitter.com/kenrickcai/status/1567650842047823872)

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "On a long enough timescale, everyone will be a startup founder. On a long enough timescale, every company will start as an open source project." Link

  • GitHub: "When @liyasthomas created Hoppscotch, he built it from a developer's point of view: there's no gateway, firewall, landing page, or friction for developers of all levels to get started. https://t.co/Iy8vyoOTffLink

  • Emad: ""Queen". #RIP #AIArt #StableDiffusion https://t.co/s8En4Hc3b6Link

  • Emad: "Open source AI is the way Congrats to @amasad and the @Replit team. Amazing things to come as we help the next billion code. https://t.co/tOKkFk3AhKLink

  • Ryan Florence: "If you want your OSS project to gain traction there's really only one thing you need to do: Document it well. - 10m quick start - Realistic examples that can be copy/paste/tweaked - Contextualized code samples for every API - Guides to put APIs together into a real use case" Link

  • Glenn Solomon: "Excellent interview by @alex of @HashiCorp CEO @davidmcj on why open source startups have PLG as a natural growth model: "our goal with open source is actually to drive standardization for users --- we think it's good for everybody." https://t.co/ckiGeCTPio via @techcrunchLink

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: ".@StableDiffusion is to images what PageRank was to web pages. That's the best way IMO to understand how profound the @StabilityAI mission is. Synthesized, open source search for the entire exploration space of visual possibilities (known unknowns, not only known knowns)." Link

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "I remain surprised that @OSSCapital is the only VC focused exclusively on open source founders. When will this change and more COSS-dedicated investors will emerge?" Link

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "YIKES... Who's working on open source alternatives to @otter_ai ? 🤨 https://t.co/VZClMqHtwl https://t.co/GcPJT8lZZALink

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "Here's all (52) of the new COSS unicorns minted over the last few years. 🦄 10% databases, 20% app dev (various categories), 20%~ data infra (various)... many other sectors! 👀 🔥 Full dataset here: https://t.co/j6pHreNFJH // ⁦@COSS_Community⁩ https://t.co/E7H0kJQAcPLink

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "We need "Nutrition Facts" for software. Our bodies are fundamentally affected by what we put in them. The same is true with our brains and the software we consume. Open source can unlock this. What is the digital equivalent of a calorie ... carb ... sugar? https://t.co/ORSTixJhymLink

  • Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: "Given the rate of improvement vastly outpacing humans, ALL software founders must now factor in the implications of @StabilityAI's #StableDiffusion and implement changes in development accordingly. Those who don't will become quickly irrelevant, much faster than most realize." Link


💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

  • Jamin Ball: "GitLab quarter: - $101M rev (+74% YoY) vs $94M consensus (7% beat) - $106M next Q guidance vs $103M consensus (3% raise) - Raised FY guide by $12.5m - >130% DBNR - 19 months GM adj. CAC payback - 87% GM - (37%) FCF Margin $GTLB" Link

  • Sid Sijbrandij: ".@paulg I always loved your tweet below 🙂 Today we announced our quarterly earnings and crossed over $100m of quarterly revenue. About 2.5 years ago this was under $100M annually. Thanks to all our customers, contributors, users, partners, and team members for making this happen https://t.co/B6AnGPuDSALink

  • Jamin Ball: "GitLab on the effects of macro they're seeing: tldr - no observed impact. They did call out "approximately $17 million of incremental expenses related to the resumption of travel and in-person customer and marketing events, as well as new public company costs." $GTLB " Link


🛠️ COSS Jobs

  • 7,056 jobs and 239 companies hiring! Link

📊 $COSS - Public Markets

  • $COSS markets up 9.71% last week

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

Koyfin market data

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