DEV Community: Sabir Ibrahim

COSS Weekly: Together AI raises an $800M series C, SuperPlane raises a $2.6M seed, Aikido acquires Root.io, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Together AI announced an $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI, SuperPlane raised a $2.6M pre-seed round to build an automation engine for AI-driven engineering, and Aikido Security acquired Root.io to strengthen software supply chain security.

Other headlines include a New York Times profile of Together AI, Nvidia adopting OpenBao (an open source fork of HashiCorp Vault), Immich hitting version 3.0, Deutsche Telekom partnering with n8n for AI agent automation, Ververica sunsetting its cloud managed service in favor of sovereign BYOC Apache Flink deployments, a German state deploying Nextcloud statewide to replace Microsoft SharePoint, and a Traefik blog post on the implications of governments switching off frontier AI models overnight.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Immich, Keploy, KorPro, Metabase, Open Mercato, PipeLab, Pluton, SuperPlane, Terrateam, and ZeroRisc.

COSS Headlines

Announcing our $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI

Companies mentioned: Together AI
Funding · Together AI Blog

As Companies Race for Cheaper A.I. Options, This Start-Up Pitches a Solution

Companies mentioned: Together AI
Media Mention · New York Times

Aikido acquires Root to secure the supply chain

Companies mentioned: Aikido Security
Announcement · Aikido Security Blog

SuperPlane Raises $2.6M Pre-Seed to Build the Automation Engine for AI-Driven Engineering

Companies mentioned: SuperPlane
Funding · SuperPlane Blog

Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault

Companies mentioned: HashiCorp
Announcement · TechTarget

What Happens If The Connection Goes Down? Lessons Learned from Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Going Dark

Companies mentioned: Traefik Labs
OSS News & Views · Traefik Blog

Nextcloud Deployed Statewide Across Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Replacing Microsoft SharePoint

Companies mentioned: Nextcloud
Announcement · Tech.eu

Deutsche Telekom Partners with n8n to Deliver AI Agent Automation for Mid-Sized Businesses

Companies mentioned: n8n
Announcement · The Fast Mode

Ververica Sunsets Cloud Managed Service, Doubles Down on Sovereign BYOC Apache Flink Deployments

Companies mentioned: Ververica
Announcement · Ververica Blog

Immich hits 3.0

Companies mentioned: Immich
Announcement · Immich Blog

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Featured COSS Companies

PipeLab

Open-source AI agent firewall

KorPro

Multi-cloud Kubernetes cost optimizer

Pluton

Open-source self-hosted backup solution

Open Mercato

Open-source AI CRM/ERP foundation framework

SuperPlane

Open-source control plane for platform engineering

Immich

Self-hosted photo & video management solution

ZeroRisc

ZeroRisc offers secure silicon device management.

Terrateam

GitOps automation for Terraform & OpenTofu

Metabase

Open-source business intelligence platform

Keploy

AI-powered API testing platform

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COSS Weekly: Timefold raises $13M, Continue.dev acquired by Cursor, Modular acquired by Qualcomm, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: The acquisition trend continued as Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular for nearly $4 billion, Cursor quietly acquired open-source coding assistant Continue, and Elastic acquired AI SRE startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million.

In funding news, DeepSeek closed over $7 billion in funding, Timefold raised a $13M Series A for its scheduling optimization platform, and Moonshot AI has reportedly sought a $30 billion valuation in new funding talks.

In other announcements, Sentient Foundation committed $42 million to advance open-source AGI, Daytona announced it is going closed source, Vercel launched eve (an open-source agentic framework), Zilliz launched Vector Lakebase, Upbound open-sourced Modelplane (a control plane for AI inference), Bluesky COO Rose Wang discussed AI and the company's open-source approach, and ClickHouse announced Silk, a new fiber runtime.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: ArcadeDB, Proton, HitKeep, Passbolt, Nirmata, Paper Compute Co., Plastic Labs, DuckLabs, Blacksky Algorithms, and Earendil Works.

COSS Headlines

Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot

Companies mentioned: Continue
Announcement · The New Stack

Introducing Modelplane: the control plane for AI inference

Companies mentioned: Upbound
Announcement · Modelplane Blog

'AI is taking away what makes us human' says social media boss

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Media Mention · Metro

DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Funding · The Next Web

Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI

Companies mentioned: Elastic
Announcement · SiliconANGLE

Vercel launches eve, an open-source framework that treats agents as directories

Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · The New Stack

Zilliz Launches Vector Lakebase, Extending the World's Most Adopted Vector Database into a Unified Data Platform for AI

Companies mentioned: Zilliz
Announcement · Zilliz Newsroom

Daytona is going closed source. Here's why.

Companies mentioned: Daytona
Announcement · daytona.io

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

Companies mentioned: Modular
Announcement · Modular Blog

Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion

Companies mentioned: Modular
Announcement · WIRED

Announcing Silk: a silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Announcement · ClickHouse Blog

Timefold Raises $13M Series A for Scheduling and Routing APIs

Companies mentioned: Timefold
Funding · Timefold Blog

China's Moonshot AI Seeks $30 Billion Valuation in New Funding Talks

Companies mentioned: Moonshot AI
OSS News & Views · Bloomberg

Sentient Foundation Commits $42 Million to Advance Open Source AGI

Companies mentioned: Sentient Foundation
Announcement · Sentient Foundation News

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Featured COSS Companies

ArcadeDB

Open-source multi-model database supporting graphs, documents, key-value, time-series, and vectors in a single engine.

Proton

Open-source encrypted privacy suite

HitKeep

Privacy-first open-source web analytics

Passbolt

Open source password manager for teams

Nirmata

Kubernetes policy-as-code governance

Paper Compute Co.

AI agent telemetry and runtime infra

Plastic Labs

Open-source memory infra for AI agents

DuckLabs

Enterprise support for DuckDB & DuckLake

Blacksky Algorithms

Decentralized community infrastructure platform

Earendil Works

Open source AI coding agent toolkit

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COSS Weekly: Toyota invests in TIER IV, Ricoh invests in Weaviate, Databricks tops 80% revenue growth, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Databricks reported annualized revenue of $6.9 billion — up over 80% year-over-year — and announced plans to acquire Panther, an AI SOC platform, further expanding its security lakehouse ambitions. Toyota took a 1% stake in autonomous driving startup TIER IV with a technology collaboration MoU; Ricoh invested in vector database startup Weaviate through its RICOH Innovation Fund; and Ant Group's international arm is reportedly considering a $1 billion fundraise.

Vercel launched eve, an open-source agent framework; Chainguard committed $50 million and 100 engineers to securing open source from emerging AI-era threats; OpenCode reached 8 million monthly active users and projects $25 million in annual revenue; Element was recognized as a Digital Public Good; Unleash announced it is moving its open-source core to AGPLv3; ClickHouse celebrated ten years in open source; Aptean acquired ROTOR Software GmbH to expand its dealer management systems offerings; and Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek spoke with Computerworld about digital sovereignty and the growing geopolitical relevance of open source.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Aikido Security, Blaxel, InsForge, Kernel, Moonshot AI, ParadeDB, Robusta, RudderStack, T3 Chat, and Tesseral.

COSS Headlines

Toyota takes Tier IV stake, MoU in regional autonomy push | Automotive World

Companies mentioned: TIER IV
Funding · Automotive World

Evolving Our Open Source Commitment: Unleash is Moving to AGPLv3

Companies mentioned: Unleash
Announcement · getunleash.io

Ricoh invests in AI-native vector database startup Weaviate through the RICOH Innovation Fund

Companies mentioned: Weaviate
Funding · Ricoh

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
OSS News & Views · ClickHouse Blog

Ant Group Looks to Raise $1 Billion For International Growth

Companies mentioned: Ant Group
Funding · PYMNTS

Introducing eve, an open-source agent framework

Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · Vercel Blog

OpenCode Hits 8M Users, a Year from a Toronto Meetup

Companies mentioned: Anomaly
Announcement · Awesome Agents

Aptean Acquires ROTOR To Expand Dealer Management Systems Offerings

Companies mentioned: Aptean
Announcement · Pulse 2.0

Chainguard commits $50M and 100 engineers to save open source from Mythos.

Companies mentioned: Chainguard
Announcement · LinkedIn

Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther, Further Establishing the Security Lakehouse Category

Companies mentioned: Databricks
Announcement · Databricks Newsroom

Databricks revenue growth tops 80% to $6.9 billion annualized

Companies mentioned: Databricks
OSS News & Views · CNBC

Element recognised as a Digital Public Good

Companies mentioned: Element
Announcement · Element Blog

Nextcloud CEO: Open source moves from 'a nerdy audience' to the geopolitical stage

Companies mentioned: Nextcloud
Media Mention · Computerworld

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Featured COSS Companies

Moonshot AI

Open-weight LLM developer behind Kimi

Aikido Security

All-in-one AppSec platform for devs

Blaxel

Perpetual sandbox platform for AI agents

T3 Chat

Multi-model AI chat app and dev tools

InsForge

Agent-native cloud infrastructure platform

Kernel

Open source browser infrastructure for AI agents

ParadeDB

Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres

RudderStack

Customer data platform for real-time data

Robusta

AI-powered observability for Kubernetes

Tesseral

Open source auth infrastructure for B2B SaaS

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COSS Weekly: VoidZero acquired by Cloudflare, Ona acquired by OpenAI, PhoenixAI raises $80M, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: The recent flurry of COSS M&A activity continues as VoidZero was acquired by Cloudflare and Ona was acquired by OpenAI. Meanwhile, on the funding front, PhoenixAI raised an $80M Series B to power its agentic AI database, Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at a €20B valuation, Mindverse raised ~$50M in a Series A, and Databricks is reportedly in talks to raise a fresh round at a valuation of over $165B. In other announcements, JFrog and NanoClaw launched an AI agent security integration, Bluesky announced a new communities feature, Nous Research joined Nvidia’s Nemotron Coalition, and Chai Discovery signed a licensing deal with Pfizer. Databricks announced its new storage ecosystem, Red Hat and IBM committed $5B to securing open source in the AI era, Firecrawl was profiled for its rapid growth, and OpenRouter data has revealed that American AI startups are quietly shifting traffic to Chinese LLMs.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Anyscale, Formbricks, LiveKit, Multica, Ona, OpenSEO, PhoenixAI, Redpanda, Styra, and Ycode.

COSS Headlines

VoidZero is Joining Cloudflare

Companies mentioned: VoidZero
Announcement · VoidZero Blog

Bluesky is getting ‘communities’

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Announcement · The Verge

Databricks in talks to raise funds at over $165 billion, The Information reports

Companies mentioned: Databricks
OSS News & Views · Reuters

Announcing the Databricks storage ecosystem: Governing the enterprise data estate, wherever it lives

Companies mentioned: Databricks, MinIO
Announcement · Databricks Blog

How a San Francisco open-source project became the data layer for global AI

Companies mentioned: Firecrawl
Media Mention · sfweekly.com

Mindverse raises ~$50M Series A led by Meituan, to open-source 750B GLM 5.1 agent model

Companies mentioned: Mindverse
Funding · Dealroom.co

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Funding · TechCrunch

Nous Research Joins Nvidia Nemotron Coalition To Advance Open AI Models

Companies mentioned: Nous Research
Announcement · Digg

OpenRouter data shows American AI startups quietly shifting traffic to Chinese LLMs

Companies mentioned: OpenRouter
OSS News & Views · CryptoBriefing

PhoenixAI Raises $80M Series B Led by Sky9 Capital to Power the Agentic AI Database

Companies mentioned: PhoenixAI
Funding · PhoenixAI Newsroom

Chai Discovery Announces License Agreement with Pfizer to Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI

Companies mentioned: Chai Discovery
Announcement · Yahoo Finance

Ona is joining OpenAI

Companies mentioned: Ona
Announcement · Ona Blog

NanoClaw and JFrog launch 'immune system' to block AI agents from downloading malicious code

Companies mentioned: JFrog, NanoCo
Announcement · VentureBeat

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era

Companies mentioned: Red Hat
Announcement · Red Hat

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Featured COSS Companies

Multica

Open-source managed agents platform

Ycode

Open source visual website builder and CMS

OpenSEO

Open-source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs

PhoenixAI

Cloud analytics platform built on StarRocks

Ona

Privacy-first AI development platform.

Redpanda

Fast, Kafka-compatible streaming platform

Formbricks

Open-source experience management platform

LiveKit

OSS platform for building audio and video apps

Anyscale

AI compute platform built on Ray

Styra

Policy-based access control for software.

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COSS Weekly: Supabase achieves $10B valuation, DeepSeek eyes $7B funding round, Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Supabase raised a $500M Series F at a $10B valuation led by GIC, DeepSeek is set to raise $7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL, and Martin Scorsese (yes, that Martin Scorsese) signed on as partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs. Other highlights include the Fivetran and dbt Labs merger completion, Neo4j's acquisition of GraphAware, Harness acquiring Codecov from Sentry, and funding chatter for Baseten ($1B at $11B valuation), Socket ($60M Series C), Zyphra ($500M), and Chai Discovery ($400M).

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: SpectorOps, Tremor, Cua, Tyk, dstack, Maxim AI, Malak, Scira, Plunk, and Stella.

COSS Headlines

Inference Firm Baseten Eyes Funding Round at $11 Billion Valuation

Companies mentioned: Baseten
Funding · PYMNTS

Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry to Strengthen Software Delivery Governance in the AI Era | Harness Press

Companies mentioned: Harness
Announcement · Harness Press

Mistral CEO Says the Pope's Comments Are a Big Problem for Europe's War on American Tech

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
OSS News & Views · Gizmodo

Artificial Intelligence Lab Zyphra Raising $500 Million To Challenge Nvidia Dominance

Companies mentioned: Zyphra
Funding · Forbes

DeepSeek slated to draw $7 billion in maiden fundraising, sources say

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · Reuters

Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

Companies mentioned: Automattic
OSS News & Views · The Register

Fivetran + dbt Labs Complete Merger to Create the Data Infrastructure for Trusted AI Agents

Companies mentioned: dbt Labs
Announcement · dbt Labs Blog

Neo4j Acquires GraphAware to Launch Intelligence Analysis Alternative to Palantir Gotham

Companies mentioned: Neo4j
Announcement · Neo4j

Supabase Series F

Companies mentioned: Supabase
Funding · Supabase Blog

Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
Announcement · TechCrunch

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
Announcement · TechCrunch

Why Pfizer And Eli Lilly Are Betting On This $1.3 Billion AI Drug Discovery Startup

Companies mentioned: Chai Discovery
OSS News & Views · Forbes

Socket raises $60M Series C at $1B valuation led by Thrive Capital to secure AI-driven software development

Companies mentioned: Socket
Funding · Socket Blog

Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create 6-minute songs

Companies mentioned: Stability AI
Announcement · TechCrunch

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Featured COSS Companies

Maxim AI

Creator of Bitfrost, an AI gateway platform

dstack

Open-source control plane for AI infra

Stella

Opensource legal workspace

Malak

Open-source investor relations hub

Scira

Open-source AI-powered research agent

Plunk

Open-source email platform for SaaS

SpecterOps

Identity attack path management solutions

Tyk

Open-source full lifecycle API management

Cua

Open-source computer-use agent platform

Tremor

React components for charts and dashboards

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COSS Weekly: ClickHouse triples its revenue, OpenRouter doubles its valuation in one year, WordPress' battle with WPEngine rages on, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:10:29 +0000

This week in COSS: ClickHouse tripled its annualized revenue to $250M and is charting a path toward an IPO, OpenRouter more than doubled its valuation to $1.3B after raising a $113M Series B led by Google's CapitalG, and the long-running legal battle between WordPress (Automattic) and WP Engine continues to drag on with no resolution in sight. JFrog reports on the tidal wave of threats to software supply chain security, and OpenClaw continues to gain momentum and competitors. Deepchecks joins Check Point, while Indian startup Flexprice raises a $1.5M seed round.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Fincept, FlexPrice, Inngest, Mike OSS, OpenWhispr, Postiz, Quant-UX, Requestly, Sync-in, and Voltagent.

COSS Headlines

ClickHouse triples annualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
OSS News & Views · TechCrunch

Check Point acquires Deepchecks’ team and technology to advance AI

Companies mentioned: Deepchecks
Funding · CTech

Lyzr AI raises from In-Q-Tel

Companies mentioned: Lyzr
Funding · Axios

Yes, the WordPress battle with WP Engine is still going on.

Companies mentioned: Automattic
OSS News & Views · The Verge

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · VentureBeat

Flexprice raises $1.5m seed funding led by Shastra VC

Companies mentioned: FlexPrice
Funding · The Economic Times (India)

JFrog report recaps a tumultuous year in supply chain security

Companies mentioned: JFrog
Media Mention · The New Stack

OpenClaw passed 300,000 GitHub stars. Then Google launched Spark.

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · The New Stack

Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · The Verge

Starburst bets on semantic context to solve enterprise AI trust problem

Companies mentioned: Starburst Data
Announcement · SiliconANGLE

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Companies mentioned: OpenRouter
Funding · TechCrunch

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Featured COSS Companies

Mike OSS

Open-source legal AI platform

OpenWhispr

Open-source voice-to-text dictation app

Quant-UX

Open-source UX prototyping & research tool

Fincept

AI-powered open-source financial terminal

Sync-in

Open-source file sync and collaboration platform

FlexPrice

Monetization platform for AI/agentic companies

Requestly

Free & open-source API development platform.

Voltagent

Open source TypeScript framework for AI agents

Postiz

Social media management and scheduling tool.

Inngest

AI workflow orchestration platform

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COSS Weekly: OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw Raises $12M, Dust Raises $40M, Sonar Acquires Gitar, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

This week in COSS: NanoCo, the company behind the OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw, turned down a $20M buyout offer and raised a $12M seed round; Dust raised a $40M Series B for its multiplayer AI platform; Sonar acquired Gitar to expand its code verification platform; Mistral AI acquired Emmi AI in an industrial push; and Deno Land continued its challenge of Oracle's JavaScript trademark.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Blindside Networks, Confluent, Dria, EvoMap, NanoCo, Omi, OpenSRE, Parrot Security, Vates, and Workbrew.

COSS Headlines

Oracle lays mines in JavaScript trademark battle

Companies mentioned: Deno
OSS News & Views · The Register

Announcing the Zulip Foundation

Companies mentioned: Zulip
Announcement · Zulip Blog

Mistral AI buys Austrian physics AI startup in industrial push

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Announcement · Reuters

What Marketers Can Learn From A small AI Startup That Said No To Elon

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
OSS News & Views · Forbes

AWS nabs white hot gen AI media creation startup fal, becoming its preferred cloud provider

Companies mentioned: FAL.AI
Announcement · VentureBeat

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead

Companies mentioned: NanoCo
Funding · TechCrunch

Meet the brothers who turned a homegrown AI agent into a $12 million bet on the future of work — in six weeks

Companies mentioned: NanoCo
OSS News & Views · Fortune

Sonar Acquires Gitar, Expanding Code Verification Platform to Include AI Code Review

Companies mentioned: SonarSource
Announcement · Sonar Newsroom

Dust raises $40M Series B to scale multiplayer AI for human-agent collaboration

Companies mentioned: Dust
Funding · Dust Blog

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

Companies mentioned: GitButler
Media Mention · The Register

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Featured COSS Companies

Parrot Security

Debian-based Linux distro for cybersecurity

Blindside Networks

Open-source virtual classroom hosting

Vates

Open source virtualization platform

NanoCo

Creators of OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw

Confluent

Cloud-native data streaming platform

EvoMap

AI agent self-evolution infrastructure

Workbrew

Enterprise Homebrew management platform

Dria

Decentralized AI inference network

Omi

Open-source AI wearable for memory

OpenSRE

Open-source AI SRE agent framework

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COSS Weekly: RadixArk launches with $100M in seed funding, Hermes Agent surpasses OpenClaw, SAP invests in n8n at a $5.2B valuation, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: n8n announces a strategic investment from SAP that doubles its valuation to $5.2 billion, RadixArk launches with $100 million in seed funding to build open infrastructure for frontier AI, and the open source community debates whether AI is a threat or an asset to code security following Cal.com's decision to close its source.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Bubble Lab, Discourse, Insomnia, JumpServer, Karakeep, Legal Data Hunter, ntfy.sh, Pirsch Analytics, Read the Docs, Sayr, Swetrix, Tailscale, Tolgee, Vitality, and Wraps.

COSS Headlines

AI has a sprawling data problem. Airbyte has just launched a tool to fix it.

Companies mentioned: Airbyte
Media Mention · The New Stack

Kilo Code Raises $8M Seed Round to Scale Open-Source AI Coding Agent

Companies mentioned: Kilo Code
Funding · VC Tavern

The Lost Pixel Team Is Joining Figma

Companies mentioned: Lost Pixel
Announcement · lost-pixel.com

How OpenAI scaled to 900 million weekly users with Ory

Companies mentioned: Ory
Media Mention · The New Stack

Our $100M Seed to Build Open Infrastructure for Frontier AI

Companies mentioned: RadixArk
Funding · RadixArk Blog

Announcing SAP’s strategic investment in n8n

Companies mentioned: n8n
Funding · n8n Blog

OpsMill Raises $14 Million in Series A to Fund Product Development & Growth

Companies mentioned: OpsMill
Funding · OpsMill

AI's not going to kill open source code security

Companies mentioned: Cal.com
OSS News & Views · The Register

Cal.com just went closed source over AI, but AI is exactly why open source still wins

Companies mentioned: Cal.com
OSS News & Views · XDA Developers

Hermes Agent Just Took OpenClaw’s OpenRouter Top Spot

Companies mentioned: Nous Research, OpenRouter, OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · RoboRhythms

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Featured COSS Companies

Sayr

Source-available project management tool

Discourse

Open-source community discussion platform

Tolgee

Open-source app localization platform

Read the Docs

Documentation hosting and build platform

Pirsch Analytics

Privacy-friendly, cookieless web analytics

Swetrix

Cookieless, open-source web analytics

Wraps

Open-source AWS email infrastructure

Bubble Lab

AI-native workflow automation platform

Tailscale

Zero-config VPN built on WireGuard

Legal Data Hunter

Open legal data index for 110+ countries

ntfy.sh

Open-source push notification service

Insomnia

Open-source API client & testing platform

Karakeep

AI-powered self-hostable bookmark manager

JumpServer

Open-source PAM platform for secure access

Vitality

AI-powered fitness & nutrition tracker

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COSS Weekly: CopilotKit raises $27M, SAP's COSS shopping spree, Anaconda acquires Outerbounds, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: CopilotKit raised a $27M Series A, SAP announced plans to acquire both Dremio and Prior Labs, Anaconda acquired Outerbounds, IREN acquired OpenStack champion Mirantis, DeepSeek previewed its V4 model and is reportedly targeting a $45B valuation, OpenObserve closed a $10M Series A, Socket acquired Secure Annex, and Ant Group received Chinese regulatory approval to raise $1.5B .

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Amical, Brave, Deciso, DeepSource, Entire, Filigran, Inferact, Inth, NativeLink, RadixArk, Seita, and Tangled.

COSS Headlines

SAP Intends to Acquire Dremio

Companies mentioned: Dremio
Announcement · Dremio Blog

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Companies mentioned: Mirantis
Announcement · The Register

China’s DeepSeek releases preview of long-awaited V4 model as AI race intensifies

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Announcement · CNBC

Socket Has Acquired Secure Annex

Companies mentioned: Socket
Announcement · Socket

SAP to Acquire Prior Labs to Establish a Globally Leading Frontier AI Lab in Europe

Companies mentioned: Prior Labs
Announcement · SAP Newsroom

SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw

Companies mentioned: Prior Labs
Announcement · TechCrunch

China's Ant Group gets green light for $1.5bn fundraising plan

Companies mentioned: Ant Group
Funding · Times of Malta

Mistral, Europe’s answer to OpenAI and Anthropic, pushes its coding agents to the cloud

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
OSS News & Views · The New Stack

Cyera Acquires Ryft to Extend its Agentic AI Security Platform

Companies mentioned: Ryft
Announcement · BusinessWire

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
OSS News & Views · TechCrunch

CopilotKit raises $27M Series A

Companies mentioned: CopilotKit
Funding · CopilotKit Blog

Anaconda Acquires Outerbounds

Companies mentioned: Anaconda, Outerbounds
Announcement · Anaconda

OpenObserve: $10M Series A and the Launch of Observability 3.0

Companies mentioned: OpenObserve
Announcement · OpenObserve Blog

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Featured COSS Companies

Amical

Open-source AI dictation app

Inferact

LLM inference engine commercialization

Filigran

Open-source threat management platform

Brave

Privacy-focused browser and search engine

Entire

Developer platform for human-agent collab

Inth

Open-source developer-first consent banner

RadixArk

AI inference and training infrastructure

DeepSource

AI code review platform

Seita

Open-source EMS for energy flexibility

NativeLink

Open-source build cache and remote executor

Deciso

Open-source firewall and network security

Tangled

Federated social coding platform

More COSS Companies →

Free Workshop: Building a Company Around an OSS Project

Sabir Ibrahim — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:57:14 +0000

Chinstrap Community offers a free 5-week workshop on commercial open source software (COSS) for startup founders, potential founders, and early startup team members.

Dates have now been set for Cohort 4: May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18, and June 25. All dates are Thursdays and all sessions are at 9 am Pacific (GMT-7) and will be offered via Zoom.

This workshop is for anyone who has launched or is considering launching a startup around an OSS project, or anyone who is part of a startup that is considering open sourcing its core product.

Topics covered include:

COSS business and monetization strategy
License choice
Brand management
Community engagement
Go-to-market strategies for COSS

The workshop will be taught by renowned OSS experts Heather Meeker and Sabir Ibrahim.

Note: All Chinstrap Community workshops are offered free of charge. However, in order to facilitate fruitful discussions and engagement, we limit the number of participants. To apply to attend, visit: https://chinstrap.community/workshop/coss-for-founders/

Introducing Cossmology: a Map of the Commercial OSS Universe

Sabir Ibrahim — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:05:59 +0000

Chinstrap Community is proud to introduce Cossmology, a comprehensive, worldwide directory of over 1,000 commercial open source software (COSS) companies.

If you’re working on an OSS project around which you’ve built, or plan to build, a commercial offering, tell us about it by using our Submit feature.

We’ve also launched COSS Weekly, a newsletter that delivers all the latest COSS news, funding rounds, acquisitions, and other headlines to your inbox. No sales pitches, no ads, just all of the week’s most relevant news from the COSS universe (check out our COSS Weekly archive).

We’ve mirrored much of the Cossmology dataset on GitHub (repository, searchable index) so be sure to star us.

Feedback welcome!

COSS Weekly: ComfyUI raises $30m, Warp.dev goes OSS, Portkey acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Palo Alto Networks moves to secure AI agent ecosystems by acquiring Portkey, while Cohere merges with Aleph Alpha to bolster AI capabilities. Two companies go opposite ways on COSS—Warp embraces full open-sourcing, whereas MinIO completes its shift away from open source, prompting users to look for OSS replacements. Meanwhile, ComfyUI raises significant capital to improve AI-generated media and DeepSeek introduces a new model that 'closes the gap' with competing LLMs while preserving its famous advantages in efficiency. The growing use of AI-written software raises new security concerns and sparks competition with emerging agent platforms like OpenClaw and Microsoft's new efforts.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: NestJS, NocoBase, Pretzel AI, ReactiveSearch, Refact.ai, Rio, SeaweedFS, Shuttle, Warp, and Zed Industries.