Transatlantic VC investing in early-stage Open Source, AI & Infra. Part of the Red River West family

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localhost(san-francisco) is next week πŸ”₯ Oct 14: the people who maintain, break and ship open source, in one room. No panel, no pitch. Hosted by @sentry, co-organized with @superset_sh, @PlakarKorp, @OpenSpec_ & @commitvc. Word of mouth almost filled the room β†’ luma.com/hddco7hd
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Founders & builders from @WorkOS, @nginx, @PingCAP, @mozilla, @strapijs, @zitadel, @StirlingPDF, Caution, @EntireHQ, Guepard, Confident AI, @papercompute, @modaicdev and more are coming πŸ‘€
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πŸ† #1 OSSCAR Scaling Β· Q2 2026: Headroom Labs Its main repo, Headroom, shrinks tool output, logs & RAG chunks before they hit the model β€” fewer tokens, same answer. πŸ“… Jan 2026 Β· πŸ“ˆ org: ~57K stars (47x+) Β· 152 contribs (9x+) Β· ~1.5M dls (64x+)
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πŸ’‘ ships its own compression model, Kompress-v2-base, on Hugging Face. That's a wrap on OSSCAR Q2 Scaling 🎬 Full ranking β†’ osscar.dev
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πŸ† #1 OSSCAR Emerging Β· Q2 2026: HeyGen @HeyGen Their main repo, HyperFrames, turns plain HTML into video rendered for AI agents. πŸ“… Mar 2026 Β· πŸ“ˆ org this Q: ~34K stars (300x+) Β· 46 contribs (7x+) Β· ~3M dls (150x+)
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πŸ₯ˆ #2 OSSCAR Scaling Β· Q2 2026: nexu Its main repo, open-design, is the open-source, local-first Claude Design alternative β€” any coding agent becomes the design engine, on any model via BYOK. πŸ“… Apr 2026 Β· πŸ“ˆ org this Q: ~91K stars (36x+) Β· 394 contribs (24x+)
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πŸ’‘ Launched days after Anthropic's closed-source Claude Design β€” the open, self-hostable, bring-your-own-model answer. #1 tomorrow β†’ osscar.dev
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πŸ₯ˆ #2 OSSCAR Emerging Β· Q2 2026: omnigent An open-source meta-harness giving Claude Code, Codex & Pi a common Python layer: policies, OS-level sandboxing, shareable live sessions. πŸ“… Jun 2026 Β· πŸ“ˆ org this Q: ~6K stars (14x+) Β· 102 contribs (100x+) Β· ~53K dls (38x+)
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πŸ’‘ Ships "Polly" (a multi-agent orchestrator that writes no code) & "Debby" (a Claude+GPT brainstorm partner). #1 tomorrow β†’ osscar.dev
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πŸ₯‰ #3 OSSCAR Scaling Β· Q2 2026: Graphify Labs @graphify Their main repo: an on-device CLI that maps your codebase into a knowledge graph agents traverse instead of grepping. πŸ“… Apr 2026 Β· πŸ“ˆ org this Q: ~79K stars (3x+) Β· 117 contribs (19x+) Β· ~2.4M dls (30x+)
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πŸ’‘ Documents 71.5Γ— fewer tokens per query vs reading raw files, tagging every edge EXTRACTED / INFERRED / AMBIGUOUS. #2 tomorrow β†’ osscar.dev
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πŸ₯‰ #3 OSSCAR Emerging Β· Q2 2026: Mnemosyne OSS @mnemosyne_oss A zero-dependency, SQLite-backed memory system giving agents long-term context in one file. πŸ“… Apr 2026 Β· πŸ“ˆ org this Q: ~1.4K stars (∞) Β· 49 contribs (49x+) Β· ~40K dls (95x+)
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OSSCAR Q2 2026 Β· Scaling πŸ“ˆ The Top 10 is here β€” ranks #10 β†’ #4 πŸ‘‡ Ranked by @supabase and @commitvc Β· osscar.dev
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6️⃣ jo (@askjoai) β€” a personal AI agent on your Mac that preps your day from mail and calendar overnight 5️⃣ CloakHQ β€” CloakBrowser, a stealth Chromium fork that slips past bot-detection in Playwright
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4️⃣ Cursor (@cursor_ai) β€” the AI-native code editor rebuilt around agents writing most of the code The podium starts tomorrow: #3, then #2, then #1 πŸ† Follow @supabase and @commitvc for the finale
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OSSCAR Q2 2026 Β· Emerging 🌱 The Top 10 is here β€” ranks #10 β†’ #4 πŸ‘‡ Ranked by @supabase and @commitvc Β· osscar.dev
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6️⃣ TinyHumans (@tinyhumansai) β€” OpenHuman, a local-first personal intelligence that remembers your life 5️⃣ DocLang β€” an AI-native, ISO-standard markup mapping documents, audio and video onto LLM tokens
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4️⃣ Refactoring (@tolariamd) β€” Tolaria, a local-first, git-backed desktop app for managing markdown knowledge bases as AI-ready context The podium starts tomorrow: #3, then #2, then #1 πŸ† Follow @supabase and @commitvc for the finale
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