Impressive results from the @cochatai team: They just launched Deep Research Mode, and posted a normalized DRACO composite of 71.1 – ahead of every frontier model and every fusion configuration published to date! See the full study on CoChat's website: cochat.ai/cochat-deep-resear…

.@richaberman says the internet is collapsing into a handful of agentic applications like Claude and ChatGPT. If your app can be reached by an agent via MCP, API, or CLI, it won’t survive. opencoreventures.com/blog/so…

OCV is starting a company to fix this from the runtime up, building on Hermes Agent. We're hiring a founding engineer to lead it: job-boards.greenhouse.io/ope…

The citizen developer era is here. 36M+ new developers joined GitHub between Sept 2024 and Sept 2025, and monthly active OSS contributors doubled from 84K to 175K, the fastest growth in devs and contributors ever.

AI coding agents are unleashing a wave of open source contributors, and it’s killing closed-source SaaS. A thread 🧵

Open core is taking over software, and any founder building enterprise software today needs a strategy around source code access. Today, we're introducing the Open Core Ventures Source Available License (OCVSAL) v1, a simple source available license designed to protect the proprietary components of a codebase while enabling code access. @sytses & @HeatherMeeker4 explain the OCVSAL and why this is needed now: opencoreventures.com/blog/oc…

SurfSense is the AI workspace built for teams. They just released live shared chats and chat commenting—a first-of-its-kind “chat about the chat” feature that enables Google Docs-style comments and @ mentions within shared queries. Congrats on the launch, Rohan (@mod_setter)! surfsense.com

BetterDB is the observability layer for @valkey_io, the high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. @betterdbhq is the first monitoring platform built specifically for Valkey. Congrats on the launch, Kristiyan! betterdb.com/

RayAI (@RayAI_HQ) extends Ray OSS to help AI agent builders deploy production-ready agents without months of infrastructure work. Built on the distributed compute framework that powers GPT, RayAI transforms laptop prototypes into production systems with a single command—framework-agnostic and cloud-agnostic. Congrats on the launch, @pavitrabhalla

Selora Homes (@SeloraHomes) brings professional installation and support to @home_assistant, the most widely used open source smart home system. They combine extensive device compatibility with professional installation and support. Congrats on the launch, Philippe Lafoucrière! opencoreventures.com/blog/se…

Congrats @p0deje on growing Alumnium 13X during the Catalyst program! 👥 2 to 12 contributors 🌟 29 to 400 stars 🚀 Over 1,200 monthly downloads Read Alex's story: lnkd.in/gaNbBJSz

OCV founders @zroubalik and Jeff Fernandez share their unconventional paths to becoming the co-founders of @kedifyio, and the future of autoscaling technology. 🔗 opencoreventures.com/blog/ho…

OCV’s newest company @Gobii launches today 🚀 Gobii is an AI web agent platform built on the open source framework browser-use. Its web agents can monitor and complete web-based tasks on behalf of a user, bringing AI assistants to the web. Congratulations @ai_christianson on the launch! opencoreventures.com/blog/go…

How is AI changing founder and first hire profiles? Your first hires should already be leveraging AI. Leveraging AI doesn't replace familiarity with code bases or passion for projects, but if engineers haven't experimented with agentic coding, that raises a red flag.

We’re proud to announce that we’ve launched our first OCV public benefit company, Authentik Security, with project founder Jens Langhammer. @authentikio simplifies and streamlines identity management buff.ly/3Dxb4NN

Someone has to pay for the domino - see our thoughts on F/OSS sustainability and various funding models: opencoreventures.com/blog/20…