This week in COSS: Feldera announced $21.5 million across its Series A and Seed rounds; Firecrawl raised a $75 million Series B; OpenAI offered to invest nearly $13 billion in Hugging Face before the latter was acquired by Nvidia; and M&A activity also included Baseten's acquisition of Blaxel, Aptean's acquisition of FleetGO, and Bolt.new's first acquisition, Dokai.
Other announcements included Dash0 joining the Agentic AI Foundation, Arcee AI partnering with Bolt on Forge, and Firecrawl introducing Alexandria; China also opened an investigation into DeepSeek and Moonshot over reports of user data reaching Anthropic, while Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg named a new board after the old board's unsuccessful attempt to oust him.
We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Cacti, Code Machine, DevCycle, Dograh, DroneDB, Langfuse, Osaurus, StreamNative, SUSE, and Traverse Research.
COSS Headlines
Aptean Adds Leading End-to-End Logistics Suite for Road Transport Through Acquisition of European Based FleetGO from Main Capital Partners
Companies mentioned: Aptean
Announcement · Aptean
Arcee Partners with Bolt on Forge | Arcee AI | Building Open Intelligence
Companies mentioned: StackBlitz, Arcee AI
Announcement · Arcee AI
China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports
Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Media Mention · The Next Web
Announcing our Series A and Seed
Companies mentioned: Feldera
Funding · Feldera
Dash0 Joins the Agentic AI Foundation
Companies mentioned: Dash0
Announcement · Dash0
Introducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B
Companies mentioned: Firecrawl
Funding · Firecrawl Blog
Blaxel is joining Baseten to build the future of agentic infrastructure
Companies mentioned: Baseten, Blaxel
Announcement · Baseten Blog
OpenAI reportedly offered to invest $100 million in Hugging Face after its agents hacked the platform.
Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
Funding · The Verge
Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him
Companies mentioned: Automattic
Announcement · The Next Web
Bolt.new Makes Its First Acquisition: Dokai
Companies mentioned: StackBlitz
Announcement · Bolt.new Blog
Featured COSS Companies
Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability and tracing
SUSE
Open source software solutions for enterprise IT
DevCycle
OpenFeature-native feature management platform
Cacti
RRDTool-based graphing solution
Code Machine
Multi-agent AI coding orchestrator
DroneDB
Geospatial data management platform
Dograh
Self-hosted voice-agent platform
Osaurus
Local AI agents for Mac
StreamNative
Cloud data-streaming platform
Traverse Research
Open-source GPU tools and benchmarks
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