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Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

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Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. For now the company is taking an open source approach to build a community around the tool.

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After spinning out of IBM-acquisition NS1, open source startup NetBox Labs raises $20M

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NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.

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Openbase scores $3.6M seed to help developers find open source components

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In this case, it was finding the right open source components to build his software. “I would say that being part of YC definitely gave us a higher profile, and exposed us to some investors that I didn’t know before. It definitely opened doors for us,” he said. Today, the company announced a $3.65

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From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M to build a protocol that helps open source developers get paid

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Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z

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A profile on Post News. The platform has already secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), as well as Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator. ” A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open-source app networking project, raises $40 million

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Tetrate , the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. The round, led by Sapphire Ventures , underscores the importance of the Istio project and just how critical services that facilitate cross-platform data sharing have become.