OpenVibe A clever app, which integrates multiple open social networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr and Threads, has recently gained an acceleration to its future development. The company on Tuesday announced that it received out of an investment of $ 800,000 in a roundabout led by Czecha Founders VC, which includes support from WordPress.com and Tumblr Parent Company, Automattic, as well as Tensor Ventures.
At Czechan Founders VC and former CTO of Mews Jan Širok also invested separately from their company.
Launched in 2024OpenVibe initially supported three of the more prominent open social networks, all operating on different protocols: Mastodon uses ActivityPub, Bluesky works at protocol, and Nostr-Powers some third-party programs. OpenVibe later Added Support for Instagram threadsAs this app further integrated with ActivityPub and opened to the developer community.
As CEO Matej Svancer explained at the time, the idea behind his app was to offer users more friendly and “easy use” to the open social site. Due to the different protocols that these networks use, it can be difficult for newcomers who end up having to change programs or limit their commitment to just their favorite platform.
But OpenVibe not only leaves people to stay connected with friends through all of these services in a combined timeline, it also allows cross-posting to multiple networks at the same time.
With the added capital, Svancer plans to accelerate product development, expand the OpenVibe user base, work on integrations with other social platforms, refine the user interface and more.
In addition, Automattic’s investment is worth noting how the company Historically dorsas projects in the Open source spaceParticularly those designed to compete with Big Tech. (Unfortunately, Automattic CEO and WordPress fashion maker Matt Mullenweg created a lot of division and drama within the WordPress community Over the past few months, which has some questioning his A compromise to open source values.)
Still, OpenVibe’s fundraising signals signal that there is some appetite among investors to support programs and services that use the new open social protocols. Recently, for example, a festive investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban released a call for video programs Building on Bluesky’s at Protocol. Bluesky also raised funding, Most recently its $ 15 million of series a Last autumn.
OpenVibe is available as a free app iOS And Android but plans to later introduce a subscription plan to generate revenue.
