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We hired a Gobii AI agent to manage OCV's tedious, repetitive FinOps tasks

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Introducing the Catalyst Spring 2026 Batch: Catalyst v1

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The Open Core Paradox

OCV’s new source available license is a simple alternative to closed-source licenses

Sid Sijbrandij and Heather Meeker

Launching RayAI to power multi-agent systems with Ray

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Selora Homes launches to bring professional home installation and support to Home Assistant

venture

Your pricing page should be boring and predictable

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Channel partners can amplify success, but they don’t create it

Startups

Postman for MCP: MCPJam launches enterprise testing and debugging platform for MCP servers

venture

HTTPS for AI: Garak launches end-to-end LLM security platform

RamaLama Labs launches to build container lifecycle management for LLMs

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Creator of Kubetail and YC alum: “Open source is having its Internet moment”

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Building venture-scale open core

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From code to community: How Alumnium achieved 13X growth through OCV's Catalyst Program

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Strangers to co-founders: How Kedify’s unlikely founder pairing is evolving autoscaling for the AI boom

Gobii launches to build the ChatGPT of web agents

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OpenCoreEMR launches to modernize healthcare technology

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Mermaid Chart: From open source project to raising a $7.5M Seed round

Kernelize Inc. launches to bridge the CUDA moat

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RA.Aid: OCV Catalyst Program inaugural project sees 9X growth

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Every startup needs an AI strategy

AI

5 Takeaways: Selling Open Core to the Government with Sid Sijbrandij

Startups

When doing the “right” thing isn’t the right thing

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Announcing OCV's Catalyst Program

Open Core Ventures

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Let demand steer early-stage open core product development

Open-source creator Anthony Stirling launches Stirling PDF to build the first open-core PDF editing suite

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Introducing External Secrets: Enterprise Secrets Management

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Introducing Locust load testing: Event-driven, test-as-code performance testing suite

venture

Technical founders need a demand-focused co-founder from the start

GrapesJS creator founds Grapes Studio Inc. to bring the open-source, multi-project, no-code website editor mainstream

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Open Charter gives open source users predictability amidst the licensing change trend

Duplicati: Zero trust, fully encrypted backup

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Long-time open source contributor, Dr. Nick Knize, launches Lucenia Inc. for search and analytics

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Phaser creator Richard Davey launches Phaser Studio to modernize browser-based game-building

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Don’t listen to feedback from VCs who pass on investing

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Open source startups with growing communities benefit from passionate people, early signals of PMF, and an existing user base

AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies

In-person marketing events are overvalued

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KEDA maintainer Zbynek Roubalik launches Kedify: Enterprise autoscaling for Kubernetes

venture

Open core split should be based on features, not on code base

HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies

Founder-compensated startups are default dead

venture

Red Hat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law

Open core is a misunderstood business model

AI weights are not open "source"

AI

Artificially constraining your company to one goal creates velocity and creativity

The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat

Don't listen to potential customers "if only" requests

Why open core will replace proprietary software as the default

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Ramatak: the open core platform for mobile gaming built with Godot

Ondsel: making solid modeling tools accessible for everyone

Open Core Ventures

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A standard pricing model for open core

Introducing our first public benefit company, Authentik Security

venture

Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies

Why we invested in Mermaid Chart

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The rise of observability (o11y): Neanderthals with logs to astronauts with instrument panels

Victor Adossi, EIR

Someone has to pay for the domino

Victor Adossi, EIR