COSS Weekly – Week of July 13, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim

This week in COSS: Ollama raises a $65M Series B, Bespoke Labs announces a $40M Seed and Series A, and Vercel acquires Better Auth.

In other news, Bluesky drops the interim tag for CEO Toni Schneider, Entire announces a new Git hosting network, OpenClaw becomes a non-profit foundation, Synthetic Sciences releases an open source AI workbench for scientific research, Automattic champions open source in a new documentary, and the Linux Foundation partners with COSS companies like Chainguard and Red Hat to launches a new OSS security initiative.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Aptabase, Bespoke Labs, BlueRock, Building Humane Technology, Deta Surf, DoryLab, Prisma, Superlog, Synthetic Sciences, and Vendo.

 COSS Headlines
Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth

Companies mentioned: VercelVercel, Better AuthBetter Auth

Announcement  Vercel Blog
An Entirely New Git Hosting Network

Companies mentioned: EntireEntire

Announcement  Entire Blog
Introducing the OpenClaw Foundation

Companies mentioned: OpenClawOpenClaw

Announcement  OpenClaw Blog
Ollama: all aboard open models

Companies mentioned: OllamaOllama

Announcement  Ollama Blog
Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider promoted to full-time, permanent CEO

Companies mentioned: BlueskyBluesky

Announcement  Toni Schneider Blog
Automattic Champions Open Source in New Documentry Film

Companies mentioned: AutomatticAutomattic

OSS News & Views  Variety
 Featured COSS Companies
BlueRock
BlueRock

AI agent security and observability

Vendo
Vendo

Embedded AI agent for SaaS products

Building Humane Technology
Building Humane Technology

Open-source framework for humane tech

Aptabase
Aptabase

Privacy-first analytics for apps

Superlog
Superlog

AI-native observability that fixes bugs

Bespoke Labs
Bespoke Labs

RL environments for reliable AI agents

DoryLab
DoryLab

AI-native SQL studio for databases

Prisma
Prisma

Serverless Postgres database with ORM

Deta Surf
Deta Surf

Open-source AI notebook and browser

Synthetic Sciences
Synthetic Sciences

Foundation models for scientific research

Sabir is an attorney, entrepreneur, and expert on COSS. In his roles as corporate counsel at Amazon and Roku and associate at Greenberg Traurig, he advised nearly all of the Big Five technology companies on complex open source matters. Currently, he is founder and managing attorney of OptimEdge Legal, where he advises technology clients of all sizes on matters related to open source and other technology law issues.


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