This week in COSS: Funding and M&A activity included Temporal's $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, Arcee AI's $150 million Series B at a valuation above $1 billion, Herdr's $6 million seed round, Tiledesk's €1.1 million funding, Clastix's €2.9 million seed investment, Cisco's strategic investment in Teleport, and Qualcomm's agreement to acquire PickNik.
Other announcements: Kestra launched Kestra 2.0, enabling workflows to be used as AI agent tools; Zed opened the public beta of Delta for collaborative coding with agents; and Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight model that translates camera observations, robot state, and natural-language instructions into physical actions.
We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Authelia, Bonitasoft, Clastix, Herdr, Jitsu, nao Labs, Nexus, PickNik, Revideo, and Tiledesk.
COSS Headlines
Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation as demand grows for reliable AI infrastructure
Companies mentioned: Temporal
Funding · Temporal Blog
Teleport Adds Cisco as Strategic Investor, Announces Partnership
Companies mentioned: Teleport
Announcement · Teleport
Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public Beta
Companies mentioned: Zed Industries
Announcement · Zed Blog
Kestra launches Kestra 2.0
Companies mentioned: Kestra
Announcement · Kestra
Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik to Advance the Future of Open Robotics and Physical AI
Companies mentioned: PickNik
Announcement · Qualcomm Newsroom
Tiledesk raises €1.1 mn to expand open-source AI agent platform
Companies mentioned: Tiledesk
Funding · BEINSURE News
Clastix Closes €2.9 million Seed Round from Mistral, Others
Companies mentioned: Clastix
Funding · Clastix Blog
Arcee AI Raises Series B to Build the Future of American Open Models
Companies mentioned: Arcee AI
Funding · Arcee AI Blog
Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition
Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
Announcement · VentureBeat
Herdr raised a $6M seed
Companies mentioned: Herdr
Funding · Herdr Blog
Featured COSS Companies
Nexus
Open source solutions for verifiable computation
Bonitasoft
Business Process Automation platform
Authelia
Open-source IAM solution.
nao Labs
Open-source analytics agent builder
Revideo
Open-source framework for programmatic video
Jitsu
Open-source event data collection platform
PickNik
Robot motion planning and manipulation software
Tiledesk
Conversational AI platform for customer support
Clastix
Kubernetes platform for fleet-scale operations
Herdr
Agent runtime for coding workflows
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