TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That is what SeMI Technologies is building with Weaviate, a vector search engine. It is a unique type of AI-first database using machine learning models outputting vectors, also known as embeddings, hence the name vector search engine, said Bob van Luijt, SeMI’s CEO and co-founder. Small notes on big news. SeMI raised a $1.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The latter was impacted by Elon Musk’s Twitter API changes which put an end to third-party Twitter clients , prompting Mehboob to turn his attention to the decentralized and open source Twitter alternative Mastodon. He was also a part of the search monetization discussions, including the initial Google search deal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. million pre-seed round of funding and gave some insights on where it’s at and where it’s going in the months ahead.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The funding is being led by Felix Capital, a big player in e-commerce investing, particularly in Europe, with Philippe Corrot, founder & CEO of Mirakl; Nagi Letaifa, head of engineering at Mirakl; and previous backers Creandum, Earlybird and SquareOne also participating. The front end is the perfect place for integrations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. Berlin-based Xayn wants to change this dynamic — starting with personalized but privacy-safe web search on smartphones.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. In June 2024, the company transformed its existing enterprise AI assistant and search engine into a platform called Work AI platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

million (~$1.8M) seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. UK-based Pimloc has closed a £1.4 Existing investor Speedinvest and other unnamed shareholders also participated in the round.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Hugging Face has raised a $40 million Series B funding round — Addition is leading the round. The company has been building an open source library for natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Existing investors Lux Capital, A.Capital and Betaworks also participated in today’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

This did not go unnoticed in venture circles, who monitor open source projects looking for potential companies to invest in. The launch generated some discussion on Hacker News and Reddit , and quickly built up 2000 stars on GitHub – today the tool is approaching 8,000 stars, a sign that people are liking it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

What’s more, in a time where VC dollars are much harder to come by, they weren’t even looking for this funding. The company’s solution combines open source with a SaaS offering. “So So we have two things that are open source: we have this engine, which is kind of like a Google search for code.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its now parlaying its advancement of business AI into serving as an open-source tools hub for the technology community. It helped recover more than $11 billion in illicit funds and track nearly $25 billion in criminal transactions. million in Series A funding from General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and other investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

.” Voxel51’s core product, FiftyOne, launched in open source in August 2020. “We are fully open-source; new users have unlimited access to the full machine learning stack with unlimited data and usage. Image Credits: Voxel51. ” Voxel51 sees competition from Aquarium Learning and Lightly.AI. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Against this backdrop, Deepset , the startup behind the open source NLP framework Haystack, today announced that it raised $14 million in a Series A investment led by GV with participation from Harpoon Ventures, System.One, Lunar Ventures, and Acequia Capital. Fortune Business Insights pegged the NLP market at $16.53 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Sherpa , a startup from Bilbao, Spain that was an early mover in building a voice-based digital assistant and predictive search for Spanish-speaking audiences, has raised some more funding to double down on a newer focus for the startup: building out privacy-first AI services for enterprise customers. The company has closed $8.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Company co-founder and CEO Mark Grover says the product is actually built on top of the open-source Amundsen data catalogue project that he helped launch at Lyft to manage its massive data requirements. Since it was open-sourced, 35 companies like Brex, Snap and Asana have been using it. Today the company announced a $4.8

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Less than a year after raising its $6 million seed funding round, Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup build.security is being acquired by Elastic. OPA was originally started by startup Styra , which itself has raised $40 million in funding to help build out policy management and authorization technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As a matter of fact, the funding for Benetech to start Bookshare and our Martus human rights software project came from a successful spinoff of our first social enterprise, the Arkenstone reading machines, which we sold to a for-profit for roughly $5 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Prog.ai , as the company is called, allows recruiters to search for developers based on their technical skills, libraries they have used or simply the contributions they have made to projects on GitHub. actually go about inferring skills from public source code? search example. Founded out of San Francisco in 2022, Prog.ai

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Today, it’s Mozilla’s turn to solidify its investment endeavors via a new dedicated $35 million VC fund targeted at early-stage startups. More recently, Mozilla joined a $900,000 pre-seed funding round into password management startup Heylogin. The other two include Block Party , which raised a $4.8

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

BuildBuddy , whose software helps developers compile and test code quickly using a blend of open-source technology and proprietary tools, announced a funding round today worth $3.15 Google open-sourced the core of Blaze , which was named Bazel, an anagram of the original name. So what does BuildBuddy do?

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

They searched these pictures on the web using “an open source facial recognition tool, known to provide reliable results,” and this led to a public Instagram page apparently belonging to Randolph’s girlfriend which contained “numerous images” of the suspect. Image: FBI Affidavit via The Huffington Post.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

.” Specifically, he told me that most headless platforms (which offer back-end infrastructure separate from the front-end shopping experience) allow businesses to build a faster shopping experience, but they’re largely designed for marketplaces where you search, browse and purchase from a traditional product catalog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The duo have built a distributed team of 10 across Asia and Eastern Europe as they gear up to expand beyond the product’s current source available (i.e. not-quite open source) incarnation and into a fully monetizable product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

AutoCloud is the commercial side of the CloudGraph open source project. The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method of attacking markets. announced a $30 million raise for its commercial and open source approach to neural search, for a more early-stage example.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

federal department and its many law enforcement units, which said that the agencies often used cell-site simulators without obtaining the appropriate search warrants. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

This morning r2c , a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project , announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Grep is a tool for searching through plain-text that has been around for decades. There are many ways to generate revenue from open-source software.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

This simple act saves your organization a lot of funds that would’ve otherwise been spent on replacing you. When you focus your attention on better fundraising, you’ll be able to lead the way in your organization raising more and using your funds more efficiently. When you invest in your own training, you may see benefits like: .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games.

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