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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

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. Red Hat Inc.

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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

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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.

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Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M in VC backing

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Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on. So what’s its story?

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How Cloud Defense Free is Cheaper than Open Source/DIY CSPM

Firemon

We are big supporters of open-source security tools and even employ some of them ourselves. Deploying and managing the infrastructure and software updates becomes your responsibility. Going Free Instead of OSS When we made the decision to contribute to the community, we contemplated open-sourcing all or part of our platform.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service

TechCrunch

Du, a Harvard dropout, and Mojicam, who skipped college altogether, met after the former emailed the latter about speaking at an open-source conference. After a launch on Product Hunt in 2019 offering “complex automation made easy, and with no code,” Bryant Chou, a founder at WebFlow, put money into the company.