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Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

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A new report shines a light on the world of commercial open source software (COSS) startups, including which ones are growing fastest, which are raising cash and even which universities are most popular among COSS founders. Runa previously backed a number of companies with open source foundations such as Nginx , MariaDB and N8n.

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Jitsu nabs $2M Seed to build open source data integration platform

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Jitsu , a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 cohort, is developing an open source data integration platform that helps developers send data to a data warehouse. The founders built the open source project called EventNative to help solve problems they themselves were having moving data around at their previous jobs.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.

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Study finds most big open-source startups outside Bay Area, many European, and avoiding VC

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Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. The “ ROSS Index ”, created by Runa Capital , lists the fastest-growing open-source startups with public repositories on GitHub every quarter.

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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. Openbase was a member of the YC 2020 cohort. It definitely opened doors for us,” he said. “Openbase basically helps developers choose from among millions of open source packages,” Grossman told me.

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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

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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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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

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The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To