COSS Weekly – Week of June 8, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim

This week in COSS: Supabase raised a $500M Series F at a $10B valuation led by GIC, DeepSeek is set to raise $7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL, and Martin Scorsese (yes, *that* Martin Scorsese) signed on as partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs. Other highlights include the Fivetran and dbt Labs merger completion, Neo4j’s acquisition of GraphAware, Harness acquiring Codecov from Sentry, and funding chatter for Baseten ($1B at $11B valuation), Socket ($60M Series C), Zyphra ($500M), and Chai Discovery ($400M).

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: SpectorOps, Tremor, Cua, Tyk, dstack, Maxim AI, Malak, Scira, Plunk, and Stella.

 COSS Headlines
Automattic’s CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

Companies mentioned: AutomatticAutomattic

OSS News & Views  The Register
Supabase Series F

Companies mentioned: SupabaseSupabase

Funding  Supabase Blog
Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles

Companies mentioned: BlueskyBluesky

Announcement  TechCrunch
 Featured COSS Companies
Maxim AI
Maxim AI

Creator of Bitfrost, an AI gateway platform

dstack
dstack

Open-source control plane for AI infra

Stella
Stella

Opensource legal workspace

Malak
Malak

Open-source investor relations hub

Scira
Scira

Open-source AI-powered research agent

Plunk
Plunk

Open-source email platform for SaaS

SpecterOps
SpecterOps

Identity attack path management solutions

Tyk
Tyk

Open-source full lifecycle API management

Cua
Cua

Open-source computer-use agent platform

Tremor
Tremor

React components for charts and dashboards

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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