COSS Weekly – Week of June 1, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim

This week in COSS: ClickHouse tripled its annualized revenue to $250M and is charting a path toward an IPO, OpenRouter more than doubled its valuation to $1.3B after raising a $113M Series B led by Google’s CapitalG, and the long-running legal battle between WordPress (Automattic) and WP Engine continues to drag on with no resolution in sight. JFrog reports on the tidal wave of threats to software supply chain security, and OpenClaw continues to gain momentum and competitors. Deepchecks joins Check Point, while Indian startup Flexprice raises a $1.5M seed round.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Fincept, FlexPrice, Inngest, Mike OSS, OpenWhispr, Postiz, Quant-UX, Requestly, Sync-in, and Voltagent.

 COSS Headlines
Lyzr AI raises from In-Q-Tel

Companies mentioned: LyzrLyzr

Funding  Axios
Yes, the WordPress battle with WP Engine is still going on.

Companies mentioned: AutomatticAutomattic

OSS News & Views  The Verge
Flexprice raises $1.5m seed funding led by Shastra VC

Companies mentioned: FlexPriceFlexPrice

Funding  The Economic Times (India)
JFrog report recaps a tumultuous year in supply chain security

Companies mentioned: JFrogJFrog

Media Mention  The New Stack
OpenClaw passed 300,000 GitHub stars. Then Google launched Spark.

Companies mentioned: OpenClawOpenClaw

OSS News & Views  The New Stack
Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw

Companies mentioned: OpenClawOpenClaw

OSS News & Views  The Verge
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Companies mentioned: OpenRouterOpenRouter

Funding  TechCrunch
 Featured COSS Companies
Mike OSS
Mike OSS

Open-source legal AI platform

OpenWhispr
OpenWhispr

Open-source voice-to-text dictation app

Quant-UX
Quant-UX

Open-source UX prototyping & research tool

Fincept
Fincept

AI-powered open-source financial terminal

Sync-in
Sync-in

Open-source file sync and collaboration platform

FlexPrice
FlexPrice

Monetization platform for AI/agentic companies

Requestly
Requestly

Free & open-source API development platform.

Voltagent
Voltagent

Open source TypeScript framework for AI agents

Postiz
Postiz

Social media management and scheduling tool.

Inngest
Inngest

AI workflow orchestration platform

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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