TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. Stefanescu said the goal is to provide a platform to open up the process and make it easier for companies to exchange information in 3D formats. Today the company announced a $5.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A new report shines a light on the world of commercial open source software (COSS) startups, including which ones are growing fastest, which are raising cash and even which universities are most popular among COSS founders. Runa previously backed a number of companies with open source foundations such as Nginx , MariaDB and N8n.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

New NVIDIA NIM microservices for AI guardrails part of the NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails collection of software tools are portable, optimized inference microservices that help companies improve the safety, precision and scalability of their generative AI applications. In customer service, its helping resolve customer issues up to 40% faster.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

ARMO , the Tel Aviv-based company behind Kubescape , the popular open source Kubernetes security platform, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. New investor Hyperwise Ventures as well as existing investors Pitango First and Peled Ventures also participated in this round.

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Engadget

APRIL 17, 2025

The lawsuit claims that Discord has "misled parents about the efficacy of its safety controls and obscured the risks children faced when using the application." In 2025, Discord launched a nonprofit coalition called Roost with the express purpose of developing open-source child safety tools.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

million Series A to help companies build apps on top of Airtable databases; Appsmith secure a $41 million Series B to power customized internal business apps; Retool attract a $45 million cash injection for a similar proposition; and Thunkable lock down a $30 million investment for a no-code mobile app development platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. ” This “verticalization” is important in terms of building a platform that people actually want to use.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

At the time, GitLab, which had originally built the service to improve its own data lifecycle platform, Alphabet’s GV and a number of angels, invested $4.2 today, the 17-people company is returning to its original vision of becoming an end-to-end platform. million in seed funding. million to extend its seed round to $12.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“ Together team is committed to creating a vibrant open ecosystem that allows anyone from individuals to enterprises to participate.” Prakash previously founded social media search platform Topsy, which was acquired in 2013 by Apple, where he later became a senior director. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 1, 2013

If there was a dictionary definition of an application developer that’s in this market for all the right reasons, it would point to PicNet and call it a day. Tagged: applications , Common Ground , Nonprofit , Nonprofits , nptech , Salesforce. But let’s talk favorite feature of the software.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious , Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics , the company behind the widely-used robotics software packages Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). doors and elevators). doors and elevators).

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Today a startup called Prisma that’s built a platform — based around a server-side library — that lets users write in the languages that are most intuitive to them, but lets that work carry across their organizations’ wider ecosystem of apps, is announcing $40 million in funding to continue expanding its business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

MLOps platform Iterative , which announced a $20 million Series A round almost exactly a year ago, today launched MLEM, an open-source git-based machine learning model management and deployment tool. Iterative raises $20M for its MLOps platform.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. With generous funding we recently received from the Hewlett Foundation and from Hewlett Packard Company, SocialCoding4Good is taking off!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 APIs provide a way for developers to connect their applications to other internal and external applications.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Arnav Sahu is an investor at Y Combinator Continuity, YC’s growth-stage investing platform. Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of open source models. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies. Arnav Sahu.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Commercial data centers are also transforming to meet the demands of AI and high-performance computing applications. introduced novel multi-modal AI chips for edge computing; they can analyze inputs from text, computer-vision images, and audio for use in self-driving vehicles, robotics, smart retail, healthcare, and other applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Appsmith , which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Unlike some upstart tech companies that we have seen in the internal application market, Appsmith doesn’t sport a no- or low-code approach.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

One of the most effective tools we’ve developed to achieve this is Gesso, an open-source front-end starter kit and design system, built entirely in-house by the Forum One team. Next.js: For decoupled web applications, Gesso offers a Next.js

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. We look forward to sharing an update soon! Potential and growth of our tool.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One solution would be selected to receive technical development leadership and guidance toward application and organizational sustainability. As RHoK Global December 2012 event is taking place this weekend (December 1st and 2nd) worldwide, Benetech and SocialCoding4Good are thrilled to be participating once again.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But when he was at his last job running engineering at Virta Health, he noticed that his developer team had to work hard deploying infrastructure, and it distracted them from their primary job building applications. He began by building an end-to-end platform, but eventually abandoned that idea for a more modular approach.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 Today, the company is announcing its acquisition by New Relic , the publicly traded monitoring and observability platform. Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Salto , a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows you to configure SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot with code, is coming out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $27 million Series A round. Salto makes the core of its service available as open source. Image Credits: Salto.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need. These are business applications that companies tend to build themselves to give them access to data in a more streamlined and visual way.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal , a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised an $18.75 “Before microservices, coding applications was much simpler,” Temporal’s Fateev told me. million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In addition, the company today officially launched its Cilium platform (which was in stealth until now) to help enterprises connect, observe and secure their applications. The open-source Cilium project is already seeing growing adoption, with Google choosing it for its new GKE dataplane, for example.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Tetrate , the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. As the microservices revolution picks up steam, it’s indispensable to use Istio for managing applications built with microservices and deployed on containers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its solution extracts unstructured data from databases, converts more than 30 file types into LLM-ready formats, and loads the results into vector databases for RAG applications. By continuously providing real-time, up-to-date data, Unstructureds platform ensures that LLMs are tailored to specific organizational knowledge.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Vercel , the company behind the popular open-source Next.js Given the open-source nature of the Next.js framework and then built a serverless platform that specifically caters to this framework and allows developers to focus on building their front ends without having to worry about scaling and performance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Vine, Twitter’s shuttered video-sharing platform that launched three years before TikTok, is much like my old jacket: Back in the day, it earned compliments, but if I wore it out now, it’d just look janky as hell. I heard the application fees for many visas and green cards are going to increase substantially.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Numerous companies exist substantively to power this labelling process, one of which is German startup Kern AI , which has built a platform for NLP developers and data scientists to not only control the labelling process, but automate and orchestrate tangential tasks and allow them to address low-quality data that comes their way.

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