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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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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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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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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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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

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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. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies.

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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 Tea is the brainchild of Max Howell , creator of popular open source package manager Homebrew , and Timothy Lewis. “Open source supply chain security is critical for many enterprises today.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

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Several high-profile angel investors were also involved, including Scott Banister, one of the co-founders of PayPal, and Jeff Hammerbacher, a Cloudera founding employee. “ Together team is committed to creating a vibrant open ecosystem that allows anyone from individuals to enterprises to participate.”