COSS Weekly – Week of September 21, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim

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This week in COSS: Funding and M&A activity included Temporal’s $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, Arcee AI’s $150 million Series B at a valuation above $1 billion, Herdr’s $6 million seed round, Tiledesk’s €1.1 million funding, Clastix’s €2.9 million seed investment, Cisco’s strategic investment in Teleport, and Qualcomm’s agreement to acquire PickNik.

Other announcements: Kestra launched Kestra 2.0, enabling workflows to be used as AI agent tools; Zed opened the public beta of Delta for collaborative coding with agents; and Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight model that translates camera observations, robot state, and natural-language instructions into physical actions.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Authelia, Bonitasoft, Clastix, Herdr, Jitsu, nao Labs, Nexus, PickNik, Revideo, and Tiledesk.

 COSS Headlines
Teleport Adds Cisco as Strategic Investor, Announces Partnership

Companies mentioned: TeleportTeleport

Announcement  Teleport
Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public Beta

Companies mentioned: Zed IndustriesZed Industries

Announcement  Zed Blog
Kestra launches Kestra 2.0

Companies mentioned: KestraKestra

Announcement  Kestra
Clastix Closes €2.9 million Seed Round from Mistral, Others

Companies mentioned: ClastixClastix

Funding  Clastix Blog
Herdr raised a $6M seed

Companies mentioned: HerdrHerdr

Funding  Herdr Blog
 Featured COSS Companies
Nexus
Nexus

Open source solutions for verifiable computation

Bonitasoft
Bonitasoft

Business Process Automation platform

Authelia
Authelia

Open-source IAM solution.

nao Labs
nao Labs

Open-source analytics agent builder

Revideo
Revideo

Open-source framework for programmatic video

Jitsu
Jitsu

Open-source event data collection platform

PickNik
PickNik

Robot motion planning and manipulation software

Tiledesk
Tiledesk

Conversational AI platform for customer support

Clastix
Clastix

Kubernetes platform for fleet-scale operations

Herdr
Herdr

Agent runtime for coding workflows

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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