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Everyone wants to invest in open-source startups now

27/06/2021 11:20 AM | Click to read full article

Something that has been cropping up more and more in my inbox are venture rounds from startups with an open-source backbone. Essentially, startups have roots in an open-source project, often with the progenitors of that open tech inside the company itself.

The trend of venture interest in OSS has been building for some time. The Confluent IPO and the recent wave of funding rounds for startups in the space seem to indicate that market appetite for such companies has reached a new, higher plateau.

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