Here's the one-hundred ninety-fourth 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 $324M in funding announcements for Grafana Labs and Openwater, job opportunities with Hoppscotch and Plane, insights from Godot, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $324M
- Grafana Labs, the observability platform, announced their $270M in funding at $6B+ valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Link
- Openwater, a medical devices company, announced $54M in funding led by Plum Alley Ventures. Link
📚 COSS Content
rustdesk: "reddit.com/r/rustdesk/com..." Link
W4 Games: "Godot 4.3 is here, and it's packed with enhancements for Meta Quest! Dive into improved performance, new features, & more. Ready to take your VR projects to the next level? Learn all about it in our latest blog post! #GodotEngine #MetaQuest3 #gamedev w4games.com/blog/w4-games-..." Link
Didier Lopes: "My OpenBB journey started officially 3 years ago. So I want to celebrate it by sharing 36 lessons I learned over the past 36 months as the founder and CEO." Link
Didier Lopes: "OpenBB 3 year anniversary trending on GitHub" Link
Suraj Vishwakarma: "1M+ views on Dev.to I've always loved writing articles on the platform and sharing with other developers Thanks @ThePracticalDev @bendhalpern for providing a platform where developers can share their thoughts" Link
Jason SaaStr.AI Sept 10-12 Lemkin: ".@datadoghq's first marketing hire scaled all the way to CMO and through IPO and beyond He came to SaaStr Annual to share an epic deep dive on "More Deals with Less Budget" See everyone at 2024 SaaStr Annual Sep 10-12 in SF Bay!!" Link
Grayscale: "Grayscale's @Ray_scale sits down with the co-founders of @opentensor $TAO to explore how the Bittensor Protocol aims to create a global decentralized platform for AI innovation. Tune in August 22 -- 1:00 PM ET. x.com/i/broadcasts/1..." Link
Plane: "No one will remember: - your salary - how "busy you were" - how many hours you worked Everyone will remember: - the time you switch to Plane - left banging-your-head-on-the-wall days on JIRA, Linear, Asana, and ClickUp behind - achieved knowledge-plus-work nirvana" Link
Game Maker's Toolkit: "These are the game engines that people used to make 7,711 game jam games, for GMTK Game Jam 2024. Congrats to @godotengine for the absolutely massive jump from last year!" Link
Steven Tey: "Understanding how your marketing efforts are converting to revenue is one of the most important metrics in marketing. At @dubdotco, we are beta testing a new Conversions product that lets you do exactly that (clicks → leads → sales). DM me if you'd like to try it out!" Link
Juan Linietsky: "Here at Gamescom, when asking indie devs exposing games what technology they are using, the most common answer is "Unity, but my next game will be (or is already) Godot." Link
Hoppscotch: "5 years and counting. Here's to many more bringing developers and APIs together!" Link
JJ: "Open source is eating software faster than software is eating the world... I've been saying this since the founding of @OSSCapital --- I'll break down why this is the defining trend of our era at the largest @WordPress event in the Americas. : us.wordcamp.org/2024/tickets/" Link
Jan Amann: "Probably really late to the party, but I've recently tried @calcom and was immediately convinced. Onboarding was frictionless, and it felt like the product really anticipated what I wanted to configure and helped me do so. Can 100% recommend cal.com" Link
Juan Linietsky: "Takeaways from Gamescom * Godot widely knowm today. * Indies majorly wanting to move to it for their next games. * Larger companies majorly wanting to move away from their current engine, many to Godot, but being more cautious (want to see it more proven). Massive 1yr change." Link
OpenBB: "Woke up to some cool news today OpenBB is back as the #1 GitHub repo in Finance!" Link
Jon Erlichman: "On this day in 1991: Linux was unveiled." Link
JJ: "There are three "grand" phases of maturity that Bittensor will go through: Phase ONE = Incentivize ($10 billion~) the best AI builders alive to continuously create the best SOTA models that are borderless, sanctionless, purely democratic, open source and open weights... audience of maybe 5,000~ people. First 5 years. Phase TWO = Incentivize ALL humans ($100 billion~) to hold $TAO as reserve currency of autonomy, self-sovereignty and boundless innovation. 10 billion people. Next decade. Phase THREE = Incentivize all AI and synthetic species to copy the humans. ️" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,688 jobs and 321 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "We are hiring a Growth PM for @planepowers --- come work alongside superstar brothers @vamsi_kurama and @viharkurama to scale the fastest growing and most beautiful unified open application platform for the future of work!" Link
- Hoppscotch: "We're on the hunt for a Backend Engineer at Hoppscotch who loves tinkering with self-hosted applications. If you enjoy designing and implementing self-hostable solutions as much as we do, and if packaging software and orchestration are your forte, then we want to talk to you! Head over to our job post to learn more about the role and apply if you think you're a good fit: go.hopp.sh/Iyvh7g8 Let's build cool stuff together that runs smoothly on its own ." Link
- Josh Pigford: "New $500 @maybe bounty! github.com/maybe-finance/..." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 0.92% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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