Hacker News with Generative AI: Funding

GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (github.blog)
Today, we’re announcing the call for applicants for the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a program designed to financially and programmatically improve security and sustainability of open source projects.
Open Source, Security, Funding, GitHub
4 points by wicket 2 days ago | 0 comments
Tessl raises $125M for a zero maintenance, spec-centric AI software dev platform (tessl.io)
Today is an exciting day at Tessl: we’re announcing $125M in funding, including an April $25M seed round led by boldstart and GV, and a new $100M Series A led by Index with participation from Accel. We’re happy to be well-fueled for the big journey ahead, and humbled by this vote of confidence in our mission and team.
AI, Funding, Software Development, Startups
24 points by destraynor 7 days ago | 4 comments
Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects (sentry.io)
Sentry started out as an Open Source side project in 2008. Today we are a Fair Source company with 100,000+ organizations on our SaaS and $100M+ ARR, but we have not forgotten our roots nor the hundreds of Open Source maintainers whose work we depend on for our success. Every year we share our success with the community, and 2024 is no different. This year, our budget is $750,000, up 50% from last year.
Open Source, Funding, Software, Business
137 points by kmelve 9 days ago | 22 comments
Bluesky capitalizes on X woes with funding and user growth (theregister.com)
Bluesky says it has hauled in more than 13 million users, up from about three million when it opened to the public in February 2024.
Social Media, Competition, Funding, User Growth
9 points by PaulHoule 10 days ago | 2 comments
Funding restored for man-page maintenance (lwn.net)
Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar announced in September that he was suspending his work due to a lack of support. He has now let it be known that funding has been found for the next year at least:
Software, Open Source, Community, Funding
105 points by biorach 15 days ago | 63 comments
Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem (colmanhumphrey.com)
Back in late 2020, my good friend Raiden and I co-founded Slight. Over the next two and a half years, we got it off the ground, raised a pre-seed round, and got some customers on-board, but in the end we didn’t have enough traction to raise our seed round. We got close with a few investors (after I talked to many…), but getting close still means the company dies.
Startup, Business, Failure, Funding
155 points by KraftyOne 23 days ago | 73 comments
How we didn't find product market fit (medium.com)
How we didn’t find the Product market fit with $200.000 Pre-seed Funding. Here’s the truth. — Part 2
Startups, Product Development, Funding, Business
41 points by withoutshape 24 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Bookface for Non-YC Founders (socap.ai)
Many problems can be solved 10x better through other founders
Startups, Funding, Entrepreneurship
8 points by ednevsky 27 days ago | 1 comments
Bluesky raises $15M Series A, plans to launch subscriptions (techcrunch.com)
Decentralized social app Bluesky announced on Thursday that it has raised a $15 million Series A round, following its $8 million seed raise last year.
Social Media, Funding, Business, Startups
11 points by lifesaverluke 27 days ago | 0 comments
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users (bsky.social)
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video. We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, co-creator of Kubernetes Joe Beda, and others.
Social Media, Funding, Growth, Decentralization
35 points by mkeeter 28 days ago | 30 comments
Free open source documentation by GitBook that helps fund your project (gitbook.com)
At GitBook, part of our mission is to lift up and support open source projects. Not just because it’s where we started as a company. Because we believe that open source knowledge will empower the next generation of developers to build amazing products.
Open Source, Documentation, Funding, GitBook
15 points by neoziro 28 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Semantic search engine for finding relevant VCs and angels (graph.one)
Semantic Search, Venture Capital, Startups, Funding
11 points by macieklaskus 29 days ago | 6 comments
Writer Underwriting Writer (localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu)
After the Chicago Tribune didn’t replace retiring architecture critic Blair Kamin, he funded his own successor
Journalism, Chicago, Funding, Architecture
48 points by aspenmayer 29 days ago | 5 comments
.txt raises $11.9M to make language models programmable (techcrunch.com)
As we’ve reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. One reason for that is AI doesn’t fit into existing software engineering workflows, because it literally doesn’t speak the same language. For instance, LLMs (aka large language models) require a lot of cajoling to deliver valid JSON.
Generative AI, Programming, Funding
28 points by cpfiffer 34 days ago | 7 comments
Two Years of the Sovereign Tech Fund: 25 million $ for open source (sovereigntechfund.de)
Today marks the second anniversary of the Sovereign Tech Fund. There were many significant occasions to remember: momentous investments, thriving initiatives, and speaking at the United Nations.
Open Source, Funding, Technology, Germany
5 points by sabas_ge 34 days ago | 0 comments
Funding.json (floss.fund)
funding.json is an open manifest (JSON schema) that acts as a signaling and discovery mechanism for projects seeking funding. It is a self-contained manifest file that FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) projects, developers, and communities can host on their websites or repositories to describe their financial requirements in a structured, machine-readable manner.
Open Source, Funding, Software, JSON
4 points by rishikeshs 36 days ago | 0 comments
FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects (floss.fund)
We are excited to announce the launch of a dedicated fund aimed at providing financial assistance to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS) projects globally, with an annual commitment of $1 million.
Open Source, Funding, Software, Non-profit
418 points by joice 36 days ago | 108 comments
Blue Energy secures $45M funding for modular nuclear power plant (power-technology.com)
Blue Energy, a US-based company specialising in nuclear power plants, has completed a $45m Series A fundraising round co-led by Engine Ventures and At One Ventures.
Nuclear Power, Funding, Energy, Startups
3 points by mpweiher 42 days ago | 0 comments
The Joides Resolution may have sailed its last expedition (theguardian.com)
The Joides Resolution has contributed to our understanding of climate crisis, the origin of life, earthquakes and eruptions. But funding cuts mean it may have sailed its last expedition
Science, Climate Change, Research, Ocean Exploration, Funding
25 points by cyberlimerence 43 days ago | 3 comments
AI Winter (wikipedia.org)
In the history of artificial intelligence, an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research.
Artificial Intelligence, History, Funding
11 points by sandebert 44 days ago | 2 comments
Mayorkas warns FEMA doesn't have enough funding to last through hurricane season (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday.
Politics, Disaster Relief, Funding, Hurricane Season
13 points by lando2319 49 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI just raised $6.6B to build ever-larger AI models (theverge.com)
OpenAI just closed a historic funding round, taking in a $6.6 billion investment at a $157 billion valuation, to continue pursuing its mission to build artificial-general intelligence according to a company blog post.
Artificial Intelligence, Funding, Business
15 points by thunderbong 50 days ago | 2 comments
OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B (techcrunch.com)
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Business, Funding
6 points by gniting 50 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B (nytimes.com)
OpenAI said on Wednesday that it had completed a $6.6 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just nine months ago.
OpenAI, Valuation, Funding, Business, Artificial Intelligence
236 points by gmaster1440 50 days ago | 425 comments
FreeBSD and Samba Got Funded by German Sovereign Tech Fund (theregister.com)
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), which is backed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, is funding open source work again. This time, the recipients are the FreeBSD Foundation and SerNet, which is one of the backers of the Samba Project.
Open Source, Funding, Germany, FreeBSD, Samba
6 points by assiniboine 50 days ago | 0 comments
Pydantic – Series A and Logfire Release (pydantic.dev)
Python, Software, Funding, New Releases
8 points by scolvin 51 days ago | 2 comments
Qodo raises $40M Series A for quality-first code generation and testing (techcrunch.com)
At first glance, Qodo, the startup previously known as CodiumAI, may appear to be yet another AI code generation tool. But the team, which is announcing a $40 million Series A round led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg today, is just as much focused on generating code as on generating the tests and code quality in general.
Funding, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Testing
1 points by benocodes 52 days ago | 0 comments
FreeBSD, Better Laptop Support with Investment Backed by AMD, Dell and Framework (phoronix.com)
Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer.
FreeBSD, Operating Systems, Hardware, Collaboration, Funding
7 points by BSDobelix 54 days ago | 0 comments
AI startups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies (ft.com)
AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies
AI, Startups, Funding, Technology, Business
4 points by Brajeshwar 54 days ago | 1 comments
Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k (ente.io)
Ente has been accepted into the Mozilla Builders accelerator program!
Privacy, Open Source, Photography, Technology, Funding
78 points by microsoftedging 54 days ago | 38 comments