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Does anyone know much about OCV? I haven't heard much about this firm, but the investment model seems really intriguing. I also appreciate that the article on

Does anyone know much about OCV? I haven't heard much about this firm, but the investment model seems really intriguing. I also appreciate that the article on staying open source and maintaining trust is written by a VC firm. That's really putting your money where your mouth is.

neon_electro 3y ago
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)
- sytse 3y ago
  Yep, more about OCV on https://opencoreventures.com/ https://opencoreventures.com/ TLDR; we start new open core companies around existing open source projects.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    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.
    - sytse 3y ago
      It is indeed early stage. The oldest company is Fleet https://fleetdm.com/ 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-enterprises-to-manage-their-devices/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/fleet-nabs-20m-to-enable-e...