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Software is being rebuilt for agents, MCP is winning, and the tooling is still early
open source
venture
MCP
AI
Betting on open source agents
AI
open source
The Open Core Paradox
business models
pricing
monetization
Launching RayAI to power multi-agent systems with Ray
company announcement
venture
Selora Homes launches to bring professional home installation and support to Home Assistant
company announcement
venture
Your pricing page should be boring and predictable
marketing
pricing
Postman for MCP: MCPJam launches enterprise testing and debugging platform for MCP servers
company announcement
venture
RamaLama Labs launches to build container lifecycle management for LLMs
company announcement
venture
Creator of Kubetail and YC alum: “Open source is having its Internet moment”
community
catalyst
open source
Building venture-scale open core
venture
business models
From code to community: How Alumnium achieved 13X growth through OCV's Catalyst Program
community
open source
catalyst
Strangers to co-founders: How Kedify’s unlikely founder pairing is evolving autoscaling for the AI boom
cofounders
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Gobii launches to build the ChatGPT of web agents
company announcement
catalyst
venture
OpenCoreEMR launches to modernize healthcare technology
company announcement
venture
Mermaid Chart: From open source project to raising a $7.5M Seed round
cofounders
founder spotlight
fundraising news
Kernelize Inc. launches to bridge the CUDA moat
company announcement
venture
When doing the “right” thing isn’t the right thing
goal setting
venture
Announcing OCV's Catalyst Program
catalyst
open source
community
Open-source creator Anthony Stirling launches Stirling PDF to build the first open-core PDF editing suite
company announcement
venture
Introducing External Secrets: Enterprise Secrets Management
company announcement
venture
Introducing Locust load testing: Event-driven, test-as-code performance testing suite
company announcement
venture
GrapesJS creator founds Grapes Studio Inc. to bring the open-source, multi-project, no-code website editor mainstream
company announcement
venture
Open Charter gives open source users predictability amidst the licensing change trend
open charter
open source
licensing
Duplicati: Zero trust, fully encrypted backup
company announcement
venture
Long-time open source contributor, Dr. Nick Knize, launches Lucenia Inc. for search and analytics
company announcement
venture
Phaser creator Richard Davey launches Phaser Studio to modernize browser-based game-building
company announcement
venture
Don’t listen to feedback from VCs who pass on investing
venture
fundraising
Open source startups with growing communities benefit from passionate people, early signals of PMF, and an existing user base
open source
growth
product
community
AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies
licensing
open charter
In-person marketing events are overvalued
growth
marketing
KEDA maintainer Zbynek Roubalik launches Kedify: Enterprise autoscaling for Kubernetes
company announcement
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Open core split should be based on features, not on code base
engineering
licensing
open source
product
HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies
open charter
licensing
open source
Founder-compensated startups are default dead
business models
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growth
venture
Red Hat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law
licensing
open source
Open core is a misunderstood business model
business models
open source
AI weights are not open "source"
AI
open source
licensing
Artificially constraining your company to one goal creates velocity and creativity
growth
goal setting
The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
business models
licensing
open source
Don't listen to potential customers "if only" requests
open source
product
Why open core will replace proprietary software as the default
licensing
business models
open source
venture
Ramatak: the open core platform for mobile gaming built with Godot
company announcement
Ondsel: making solid modeling tools accessible for everyone
company announcement
venture
A standard pricing model for open core
pricing
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Introducing our first public benefit company, Authentik Security
company announcement
open charter
venture
Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies
business models
licensing
open charter
open source
Why we invested in Mermaid Chart
company announcement
venture
The rise of observability (o11y): Neanderthals with logs to astronauts with instrument panels
engineering
open source
Someone has to pay for the domino
business models
open source
licensing