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OCV’s new source available license is a simple alternative to closed-source licenses
Sid Sijbrandij and Heather Meeker
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Feb 12, 2026
Launching RayAI to power multi-agent systems with Ray
Erica Lindberg
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Nov 5, 2025
Selora Homes launches to bring professional home installation and support to Home Assistant
Erica Lindberg
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Oct 30, 2025
Your pricing page should be boring and predictable
Sid Sijbrandij
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Oct 20, 2025
Channel partners can amplify success, but they don’t create it
Sid Sijbrandij
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Oct 2, 2025
Postman for MCP: MCPJam launches enterprise testing and debugging platform for MCP servers
Erica Lindberg
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Sep 29, 2025
HTTPS for AI: Garak launches end-to-end LLM security platform
Erica Lindberg
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Aug 18, 2025
RamaLama Labs launches to build container lifecycle management for LLMs
Erica Lindberg
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Aug 6, 2025
Creator of Kubetail and YC alum: “Open source is having its Internet moment”
Alex Smith
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Jul 30, 2025
Building venture-scale open core
Sid Sijbrandij
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Jul 28, 2025
From code to community: How Alumnium achieved 13X growth through OCV's Catalyst Program
Alex Smith
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Jul 21, 2025
Strangers to co-founders: How Kedify’s unlikely founder pairing is evolving autoscaling for the AI boom
Erica Lindberg
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Jul 16, 2025
Gobii launches to build the ChatGPT of web agents
Erica Lindberg
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Jun 2, 2025
OpenCoreEMR launches to modernize healthcare technology
Erica Lindberg
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May 12, 2025
Mermaid Chart: From open source project to raising a $7.5M Seed round
Erica Lindberg
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May 7, 2025
Kernelize Inc. launches to bridge the CUDA moat
Erica Lindberg
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May 1, 2025
RA.Aid: OCV Catalyst Program inaugural project sees 9X growth
Alex Smith
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Apr 28, 2025
Every startup needs an AI strategy
Erica Lindberg
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Apr 21, 2025
5 Takeaways: Selling Open Core to the Government with Sid Sijbrandij
Sid Sijbrandij
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Feb 21, 2025
When doing the “right” thing isn’t the right thing
Betty Ma
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Jan 14, 2025
Announcing OCV's Catalyst Program
Open Core Ventures
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Jan 9, 2025
Let demand steer early-stage open core product development
Sid Sijbrandij
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Jan 7, 2025
Open-source creator Anthony Stirling launches Stirling PDF to build the first open-core PDF editing suite
Erica Lindberg
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Sep 16, 2024
Introducing External Secrets: Enterprise Secrets Management
Erica Lindberg
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Aug 26, 2024
Introducing Locust load testing: Event-driven, test-as-code performance testing suite
Erica Lindberg
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Aug 22, 2024
Technical founders need a demand-focused co-founder from the start
Sid Sijbrandij
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Aug 12, 2024
GrapesJS creator founds Grapes Studio Inc. to bring the open-source, multi-project, no-code website editor mainstream
Erica Lindberg
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Jun 28, 2024
Open Charter gives open source users predictability amidst the licensing change trend
Sid Sijbrandij
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May 15, 2024
Duplicati: Zero trust, fully encrypted backup
Erica Lindberg
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May 13, 2024
Long-time open source contributor, Dr. Nick Knize, launches Lucenia Inc. for search and analytics
Erica Lindberg
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Mar 20, 2024
Phaser creator Richard Davey launches Phaser Studio to modernize browser-based game-building
Erica Lindberg
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Dec 11, 2023
Don’t listen to feedback from VCs who pass on investing
Sid Sijbrandij
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Nov 30, 2023
Open source startups with growing communities benefit from passionate people, early signals of PMF, and an existing user base
Sid Sijbrandij
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Nov 22, 2023
AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies
Sid Sijbrandij
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Nov 1, 2023
In-person marketing events are overvalued
Betty Ma
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Oct 23, 2023
KEDA maintainer Zbynek Roubalik launches Kedify: Enterprise autoscaling for Kubernetes
Erica Lindberg
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Oct 2, 2023
Open core split should be based on features, not on code base
Sid Sijbrandij
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Sep 19, 2023
HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies
Sid Sijbrandij
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Aug 23, 2023
Founder-compensated startups are default dead
Sid Sijbrandij
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Aug 15, 2023
Red Hat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law
Sid Sijbrandij
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Aug 3, 2023
Open core is a misunderstood business model
Sid Sijbrandij
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Jul 14, 2023
AI weights are not open "source"
Sid Sijbrandij
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Jun 27, 2023
Artificially constraining your company to one goal creates velocity and creativity
Sid Sijbrandij
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Jun 5, 2023
The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
Sid Sijbrandij
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Apr 14, 2023
Don't listen to potential customers "if only" requests
Sid Sijbrandij
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Mar 9, 2023
Why open core will replace proprietary software as the default
Sid Sijbrandij
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Feb 28, 2023
Ramatak: the open core platform for mobile gaming built with Godot
Erica Lindberg
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Feb 9, 2023
Ondsel: making solid modeling tools accessible for everyone
Open Core Ventures
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Jan 23, 2023
A standard pricing model for open core
Sid Sijbrandij
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Jan 4, 2023
Introducing our first public benefit company, Authentik Security
Erica Lindberg
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Nov 3, 2022
Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies
Sid Sijbrandij
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Oct 21, 2022
Why we invested in Mermaid Chart
Erica Lindberg
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Oct 10, 2022
The rise of observability (o11y): Neanderthals with logs to astronauts with instrument panels
Victor Adossi, EIR
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Jun 22, 2022
Someone has to pay for the domino
Victor Adossi, EIR
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Apr 4, 2022
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