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Joseph Jacks
COSS startup founder and investor.
Joseph Jacks is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that focuses exclusively on early-stage commercial open-source software (COSS) startups. He established OSS Capital in 2018 and has since been instrumental in leading its investment strategies both in the U.S. and globally.14
In addition to his role at OSS Capital, Jacks has a notable background in the tech industry. He co-founded KubeCon, a significant conference for Kubernetes, which is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). He has also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Quantum Corporation, where he supported the Rook project, the first storage project donated to the CNCF.123
Jacks has held various positions in other prominent tech companies, including Mesosphere, Enstratius (acquired by Dell Software), TIBCO Software, and Talend. He is also the founder of the Open Core Summit, which focuses on the intersection of open-source software and business.25
His investment portfolio includes several notable companies in the open-source space, and he has been actively involved in various initiatives to promote and support the COSS ecosystem.45
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