TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Streamlabs has promised to remove “OBS” from the name of its livestreaming software, Streamlabs OBS, following backlash from streamers and the open-source livestreaming platform OBS Studio. It also notes that “Streamlabs OBS is built on top of the OBS open-source platform” and that its own platform is also open-source.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Image Credits: Tea.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Once they do show up, users can expect to see small highlighted boxes at the bottom of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads posts, as well as options to contribute their own notes in the drop down menus on all Meta platforms. Notes will not have author names attached to them and will be capped at 500 words. "We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Bitwarden , an open source password manager for enterprises and consumers, has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by PSG, with participation from Battery Ventures. ” Open source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch. Password hygiene.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On a business level, it’s a no-brainer that Adobe has snapped up a rival whose design collaboration tools have picked up significantly more traction than Adobe’s home-grown XD platform. ” Penpot’s choice of using open source-based technology to tackle this was intentional.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University. DGX Cloud provides short-term access to large compute clusters, giving researchers the flexibility to innovate.

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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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

At its founding, OpenAI was initially meant to operate as a not-for-profit group with an open-source ethos. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk’s xAI receives another $6B in funding as Grok app looms "It's time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," Musk's lawyer said to WSJ in a statement. "We

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Project Connected Home over IP — the ambitious attempt to bring together Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance with a unified, open-source smart home platform — has just posted its latest update on the project. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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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

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

APRIL 11, 2023

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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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email. There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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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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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Plus, the open-source NVIDIA RTX Remix modding platform has now been released, and NVIDIA ACE technology enhancements are bringing to life next-generation digital humans and AI agents for games.

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TechSpot

APRIL 14, 2023

The platform is designed to make it much easier for modders to remaster DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 games with modern tech like path tracing, DLSS, user-created assets, and AI-enhanced textures. Nvidia announced RTX Remix back in September. Read Entire Article

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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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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

billion if you want," Altman wrote on the social media platform Musk owns. billion if you want Sam Altman (@sama) February 10, 2025 "Its time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," Musk said in a statement his attorney shared with The Journal.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 19, 2025

Mythica announced that Sprocket Games and Unleashed Games will open source key aspects of their projects throughMythicas platform. Read More

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Those platforms store text in single documents. That’s because the open source tool is built on a graph database to allow the system to build semantic connections between documents, whether notes, research, information or PDF markups. Logseq is entirely different. Logseq stores inter-connected information in infinite graphs.

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TechSpot

MAY 8, 2023

AGESA, or AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture, has been performing platform initialization procedures on AMD UEFI-based motherboards since the first generation of Zen CPUs. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

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. They have data scientists at big-name companies like Uber, Delta Dental and John Deere using the open-source product already.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

But a startup out of Poland with a platform for front-end developers to build composable e-commerce sites has just raised $20 million on the back of strong interest in the market. ” Indeed, companies like Shopify and headless e-commerce platforms like Commercetools have changed the game for both smaller and larger merchants.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Merchants building businesses on giant marketplaces often have to think inside the marketplace’s box, but Medusa , a one-year-old e-commerce startup from Denmark, is going after e-commerce platforms, like Shopify and WooCommerce, with its open source alternative aimed at the JavaScript developer community.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

LibLab, which bills itself as an “SDK-as-a-service” platform for engineers, today announced that it raised $42 million in Series A funding from Insight Partners with participation from Zeev Ventures, Stepstone, Sheva, and Rainfall. “The core ‘code-gen’ technology will be open-sourced soon. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

LottieFiles , a platform for JSON-based Lottie animations, has raised a Series A of $9 million. The platform includes Lottie creation, editing and testing tools, and a marketplace for animations. LottieFiles’ core platform and tools are currently pre-revenue, with plans to monetize later this year.

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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 Developers relied — and many continue to do so — on open-source CLI tools such as curl and HTTPie.

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Engadget

APRIL 17, 2025

In 2025, Discord launched a nonprofit coalition called Roost with the express purpose of developing open-source child safety tools. Discord, like other social platforms, has faced scrutiny before, and the pressure seems like it's only going to increase.

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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. It is an immersive, interactive, and social platform where people can create avatars to represent themselves, buy and sell virtual property, and interact with other users in real-time. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. It costs millions to build a tech platform. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. A tech start-up.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 14, 2025

OpenAI reshaped the enterprise AI landscape Tuesday with the release of its comprehensive agent-building platform a package combining a revamped Responses API, powerful built-in tools and an open-source Agents SDK. While this announcement might have been overshadowed by other AI headlines

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In the past few weeks, we have witnessed a surge of third-party platforms integrating DeepSeek, a powerful new AI model that is swiftly reshaping the landscape of artificial intelligence in China. Context: DeepSeeks R1 release has disrupted the global AI industry with its open-source nature and low integration cost.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

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. Semgrep (formerly r2c) lands $53M investment to grow code security platform by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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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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