Forem: Sabir Ibrahim

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

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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.

COSS Headlines

Unkey raised $4.5M to ship APIs, not infrastructure

Companies mentioned: Unkey
Funding · Unkey

AI-written software creates hassles for wary security teams

Companies mentioned: ProjectDiscovery
Media Mention · CIO Dive

Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · TechCrunch

OpenClaw Struggles to Grow Up After Overnight Success

Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
OSS News & Views · The Information

MinIO Is Done With Open Source, What Are Your Options?

Companies mentioned: MinIO, RustFS, SeaweedFS
OSS News & Views · It's FOSS

Evolving Our License for Long-Term Sustainability

Companies mentioned: Directus
Announcement

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

Companies mentioned: ComfyUI
Funding · TechCrunch

Warp is now open-source

Companies mentioned: Warp
Announcement · Warp Blog

I Switched from OpenClaw to Hermes Agent. Here’s What Nobody Told Me.

Companies mentioned: Nous Research
Media Mention · Medium

How Superlinked's Ben Gutkovich Is Solving the AI Infrastructure Problem Most Teams Don't See Coming

Companies mentioned: Superlinked
Media Mention · Forbes Councils

Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha

Companies mentioned: Aleph Alpha
Announcement · TechCrunch

DeepSeek previews new AI model that 'closes the gap' with frontier models | TechCrunch

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Announcement · TechCrunch

ComfyUI raises $30M to scale open-source AI for creative production

Companies mentioned: ComfyUI
Funding · ComfyUI Blog

Stability AI Announces $101M in Funding for Open-Source AI

Companies mentioned: Stability AI
Funding · BigDATAwire

Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents

Companies mentioned: Portkey
Announcement · Palo Alto Networks

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Featured COSS Companies

SeaweedFS

Distributed object store and file system

NocoBase

Open-source no-code/low-code app builder

Warp

AI-powered agentic development terminal

ReactiveSearch

Open-source search API gateway and UI toolkit

Rio

Python web app framework, no JS required

Shuttle

Cloud platform for Rust backend deployment

Refact.ai

Open-source AI coding assistant & agent

NestJS

Progressive Node.js framework

Zed Industries

Fast, collaborative code editor with AI

Pretzel AI

AI-native open-source Jupyter alternative

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COSS Weekly: Hugging Face on Open vs. Closed, Orkes Raises $60M, DeepSeek seeks $20B valuation, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This week in COSS: Orkes raised $60M to build more reliable AI workloads, while Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. Supabase is reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $10 billion, ClickHouse expanded its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, and Forbes declared that open source AI is moving from sideshow to strategy.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Activeloop, Arcee AI, Artillery, Chromatic, Dash0, Instill AI, Lightning AI, Lost Pixel, Octopus, Transactility, TrustGraph, and Wave Terminal.

COSS Headlines

Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages

Companies mentioned: Bluesky
OSS News & Views · Engadget

Khoj Cloud - Service Deprecated

Companies mentioned: Khoj
Announcement · Khoj

ClickHouse expands strategic collaboration with Google Cloud

Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Announcement · ClickHouse Blog

Infleqtion Awarded $2 Million DARPA Contract for Heterogeneous Quantum Software

Companies mentioned: Infleqtion
OSS News & Views · Quantum Computing Report

Announcing the LangChain + MongoDB Partnership

Companies mentioned: LangChain, MongoDB
Announcement · LangChain

Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion

Companies mentioned: Supabase
Funding · The Information

Open Source AI Is Moving From Sideshow To Strategy

Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
Media Mention · Forbes

Orkes raises $60M for more reliable AI workloads

Companies mentioned: Orkes
Funding · Axios

Tencent, Alibaba in talks to invest in DeepSeek at over $20 billion valuation

Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Funding · Reuters

App host Vercel says it was hacked and customer data stolen

Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · TechCrunch

AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters

Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
OSS News & Views · Hugging Face Blog

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Featured COSS Companies

Activeloop

GPU-native database for AI agents

Artillery

Load testing & E2E testing platform

Dash0

OpenTelemetry-native observability platform

Chromatic

Visual testing and UI review platform for Storybook, Playwright, and Cypress.

Instill AI

AI workspace for document intelligence

Lost Pixel

Open-source visual regression testing

Lightning AI

AI cloud platform for developers

Octopus

AI-powered open-source code review tool

Wave Terminal

AI-native open-source terminal

TrustGraph

Graph-native AI context platform

Transactility

Commercial licensing and support for jPOS

Arcee AI

Open-weight AI models and enterprise agentic AI

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COSS Weekly: Cal.com Goes Closed Source, Mistral Borrows $830M for Data Centers, OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, and more

Sabir Ibrahim — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:15:45 +0000

This week in COSS: Mistral raised $830 million in debt financing for AI data center expansion, OpenAI acquired Promptfoo signaling a growing focus on AI security, and Cal.com made waves by going closed source in a move that sparked debate about the future of open source software security. Self-hosted AI automation stacks featuring n8n, Dify, and Ollama are gaining traction, while PrestaShop announced a formal collective restructuring process and Starburst unveiled an AI-powered front end aimed at replacing conventional BI dashboards. We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: ACI.dev, Beanbag, Builderz, Cachix, Code Machine, DataChain, Flox, HTTPie, Manticore Software, and Redgate Software.

Featured COSS Companies

Redgate Software
Database DevOps tools and solutions

Manticore Software
Open-source fast database for search

Cachix
Nix binary cache hosting service

Builderz
AI agents & blockchain dev agency

ACI.dev
AI tooling governance platform

DataChain
AI data warehouse for unstructured data

Beanbag
Open source code review tools for teams

Code Machine
Multi-agent AI coding orchestrator

HTTPie
Human-friendly API testing tools

Flox
Reproducible dev environments built on Nix

More COSS Companies →