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The author of the post, and the General Partner of the firm is Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab (@sytse on here, and @sytses on Twitter/X)


Yep, more about OCV on https://opencoreventures.com/ TLDR; we start new open core companies around existing open source projects.


Have you had much success with companies post-VC?

eg after they're acquired, IPO'd, or dissolve?

Asking because things seem to still be at an early stage with yourselves (thus far), so not remembering anything that's reached the end of the VC pipeline yet.


It is indeed early stage. The oldest company is Fleet https://fleetdm.com/ who do open source device management and raised at $100m post in 2022 https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/fleet-nabs-20m-to-enable-e...




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