Selected media coverage, conference presentations, industry awards, and commentary on open source, data-driven VC, and investing in startups.

2026

New Endowment Hopes to Raise a Big Pile of Money for Open Source Projects
A VC and Some Big-Name Programmers Are Trying to Solve Open Source's Funding
For Open Source Programs, AI Coding Tools Are a Mixed Blessing
What Tailwind Teaches Us About Open Source in the Age of AI

2025

OpenUK Honours List 2026
Software is Not a Moat Anymore
Panel speaker at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025
Data-Driven VC Landscape 2025 — Top 100 DDVC Thought Leaders
Speaker at Open-Source Investment Masterclass at Cambridge University
Open Source Trends for 2025 and Beyond

2024

Twenty Secures $5M to Challenge CRM Giants with Open Source
Speaker at OFA Academy Symposium 2024 at Harvard University
Keep, an Open-Source AIOps Platform, Raises $2.7M Pre-Seed Funding
A Wave of AI 'Acquihires' Is Coming. Here's Who Could Get Bought
Data-Driven VC Landscape 2024 — Top 100 DDVC Thought Leaders
AI and Data Infrastructure Drives Demand for Open Source Startups
Panel speaker at 0100 Conference DACH 2024

2023

October 2023 Tech EU Report
The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest
11 European Open Source Startups to Watch, According to VCs
Speaker at DevDays Europe 2023
Speaker at Startup Extreme 2023
Which Open Source Startups Rocketed in 2022?

2022

Runa Capital Kicks Off New Fund as It Joins the VC 'Scramble for Europe'
Runa Capital Moves HQ To Luxembourg; Promotes Konstantin Vinogradov to GP
OpenReplay Raises $4.7M for Its Tool to Find Bugs in Sites

2021

Cube RM Raises $8M Round, Led by Runa, to Create Global Tenders Platform
Speaker at Connected Data World 2021
Open-Source Growth and Venture Capital Investment

2020

Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help
Panel speaker at OpenCore Summit 2020