TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Openbase founder Lior Grossman started his company the way that many founders do — to solve a problem he was having. In this case, it was finding the right open source components to build his software. He decided to build something to solve the problem, and Openbase was born. Today, the company announced a $3.65

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. “Developers care about that.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. The companies that dominate this space have existed for many years, and Stefanescu said they have had little motivation to innovate around file-sharing or open source.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The company was growing fast and had a serious data problem. Part of the problem was just the sheer scale of Uber’s data, which made it difficult if not impossible to shift around using the data lake technology that was available at the time. What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 1, 2024

Open source pioneer Bruce Perens gets one thing right and most things wrong in a recent interview on the future of open source. He’s absolutely correct that “our [open source] licenses aren’t working anymore,” even if he’s wrong as to why. (He In 2024, we need open source to catch up with these technologies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

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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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. Kubernetes security is a complex problem. That’s something Tiger Global partner John Curtius also noted.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Today, the company has 23 employees. The company previously raised a $4 million seed round in 2021.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 18, 2024

Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project. To read this article in full, please click here

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

“I’d wager that the tech is the least of their problems.” None of those are driving factors, but a comprehensive team slide that explains why a specific group of people is qualified to attack a particular problem is far more compelling, writes Haje Jan Kamps. ” Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. Nonprofit organizations often tackle complex problems with hard-to-communicate ideas and sometimes, static, 2D images and videos aren’t enough to explain the problem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2014, Østhus faced this problem of feature management at Finn, the company where he was working. He released Unleash as open source on GitHub the following year and nurtured the project for the next several years as he continued working at his day job as an engineer. So in his spare time, he started working on a solution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Given the tremendous barrier to entry, is it worth considering whether open source foundation models could level the playing field and also address concerns about privacy and bias? Series A deck Image Credits: Fibery (opens in a new window) Based in Cyprus, workflow and knowledge management platform Fibery raised a $5.2

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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 and Europe. .

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

To alleviate these challenges, in “ ArchGym: An Open-Source Gymnasium for Machine Learning Assisted Architecture Design ”, accepted at ISCA 2023 , we introduced ArchGym, which includes a variety of computer architecture simulators and ML algorithms. learning rate, warm-up steps, etc.).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The design also requires users to include a link, adding a layer of credibility to the note (although the link may not be a reliable source). Meta uses an Xs open-source algorithmwhich may evolve later as they learn more about how it all really works, Meta saysto determine whether the note is helpful and unbiased.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It is an open source system with many vendors having their own Android versions (with their own vulnerabilities and patching problems)," Eset security awareness specialist Ondrej Kubovi? One area focused on within the report is the current state of Android malware. "It told The Register.

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Engadget

APRIL 18, 2025

Proton also has more than 8,600 servers to choose from across 110 countries, so you shouldn't have any problem finding one that best suits your preferences. ProtonVPN is also open source, meaning that anyone with enough knowhow can take a look under the hood and validate Proton's technical claims. ProtonVPN has a no-logs policy.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Since then, Musk has filed several lawsuits against the ChatGPT maker, claiming that it had lost track of its "open-source" roots, and instead becoming beholden to corporate incentives and multibillion-dollar deals. Many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff, now this.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 18, 2024

As FirstMark investor Matt Turck expresses it, “The problem is only getting worse as the software industry transitions from subscription-based to consumption-based revenue models. Once upon a time, few companies needed metering or usage-based billing. What started as a trickle is becoming mainstream.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. Since then, that open source project has been downloaded over 40 million times.

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 24, 2025

My Talk at George Washington University Continue reading on Medium

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool. My firm belief is that tech will play a key role in solving just about every social problem imaginable. I can assure you that I am not retiring.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But it threatened the survival of countless old games and animations — a problem for web preservationists and anyone who fondly remembers platforms like Newgrounds. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser.

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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. The problem was that with so much data, employees had to kludge together systems to confirm the data validity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That’s one of the problems that five ex-Google employees are trying to solve. Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas and Kim Lewandowski founded Chainguard in October after working together on building open source tools at Google.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This is a huge problem. This is where fully open APIs based on open source software are a great help and the technology of the future. Fully open APIs give any developer the same level of control and freedom in the cloud as open source brought to the software industry, with no adverse effects.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software self-sabotage.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Starting with OpenAIs pivotal o1 model, researchers began to apply more computing power to the real-time reasoning a model does just after a user prompts it with a problem or question. It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Stéphane Nasser is co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses. OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses to help founders more efficiently find the right investors — and vice-versa. Occurrences. Local affinity or bias.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects. Giving developers permission to contribute to open source can make them feel more valued.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. They included trapped-ion specialist Quantinuum and neutral atom-focused startup Atom Computing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The two founders, CEO Martin Mao and CTO Rob Skillington, created the open-source M3 monitoring project while they were working at Uber, and left in 2019 to launch Chronosphere, a startup based on that project. Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable, cloud-native monitoring tool.

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