Infield

Two big releases this week for our customers at Infield ➡ 🗒 : 1. A dependency digest that includes new versions of your dependencies that came out this week, upgrades performed on your repo this week, and any dependencies added/removed. 2. Support for internal packages maintained by your organization.

Our founder Stephen Pike was a guest on The Data Exchange Podcast this week discussing how engineering teams should think about their reliance on open source software, the application of LLMs to the problem of upgrading, and why he thinks a human-in-the-loop approach is best. https://lnkd.in/dBveqq72

We loved chatting with Jeremy Smith about his love for Rails and the Ruby community. Check out the interview here! https://lnkd.in/ejc6Vwjd

Yesterday, we partnered with nextNYC and Charlie O'Donnell for How I Raised My Seed, a round panel discussion with the founders at BoldVoice, Infield, and Compyl. Our biggest takeaways for founders trying to raise? ✔ Filter out investors by asking the right questions. What’s your check size? What kind of companies do you fund? What industries? ✔ When negotiating your term sheet, take as much money as you can possibly get. It might seem tempting to minimize your funding to give away less equity, but consider this - everything may take 2x as long and costs 3x more than you expect. ✔ It’s all about networking. Leverage everyone you can think of - friends, family, college roommate - no one is off the list. Once you get more comfortable having these conversations, you will be able to identify potential investors from those who may not be suitable. ✔ Don't get boxed in by traditional labels. Fundraising stages are subjective. They're less about intrinsic meaning and more about articulating a startup's growth plans to potential investors. Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, B, C, call it what you need to reflect your company's unique milestones and strategic goals. ✔ No one knows your story better than you! As a founder, own your narrative and stay true to what got you started. Look out for more takes from NYC founders like Allison Pike.🗽 ❤️

This week Allison Pike speaks with Will McGugan of Textualize.io about his contributions to the Python community!

Once a Maintainer is back, kicking off the year with an interview with Robert Mosolgo. Robert is the creator and maintainer of graphql-ruby, a Ruby implementation of GraphQL. We loved chatting with Robert about how he got into open source, why he thinks computer languages are a breeze compared to human languages, and how life is going on his family farm. https://lnkd.in/ebe-ZANa

We're excited to be featured in The New Stack today! The focus on our data pipeline and framework-specific approach to upgrades is great to see. https://lnkd.in/eKQ5AcEX

We're thrilled today to announce our public launch in Ruby, Python, and Javascript alongside our $3 million seed round led by Foundation Capital with participation from Y Combinator and Firsthand Alliance! Special thanks to Lauri J. Moore, Steve Vassallo, and Simon Chan plus an amazing team of angels like Austin Ogilvie 🗽, Michael Babineau, Jordan Zamir, Adam Gross, Jeremy Baksht, Jonathan Siddharth, Charlie Hecht, Kevin Hsu, Cecilia Ziniti and Sachin Wadhawan. Dependency management sucks. We're here to make it better. https://lnkd.in/e6dWjJ7a

We loved chatting about James Lamb about his work on machine learning framework LightGBM and how he got into open source software. Check out James' interview and the rest of our Once a Maintainer series below!