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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 2

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And now we’re getting our first look at them through Demo Day. The first day’s demos included a healthy dose of artificial intelligence and open source, which is different from years past that were dominated by new fintech companies. Check out our favorites from the second day of demos below and see for yourself.

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Everything you need to know about YC Demo Day Winter 2022, part 2

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The second day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day is now behind us, and the TechCrunch team is recovering from watching hundreds of pitches in quick succession. Recall that nearly 400 companies presented at YC Demo Day from a cohort of 414 in total. TechCrunch’s YC Demo Day favorites, part 2.

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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. Godot editor demo. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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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. Grossman says that being part of YC helped him meet investors, especially on Demo Day when hundreds of investors listened in. It definitely opened doors for us,” he said. Today, the company announced a $3.65 The database includes 1.5

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Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative

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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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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

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We’re excited about the Apple event, and Y Combinator has its demo day. The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. Hey, hey, hey!