The intelligent Openvibe app that integrates more open social networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr and Threads, has just had a push towards its future development. Tuesday, the company has announced that it has received $ 800,000 external investments in a round led by the VC Czech founders, which includes the support of WordPress.com and the Mother Tumblr company, Automatic, as well as Tensor Ventures.
Czech founders VC and the former CTO of Mews Jan Široký have also invested separately from his company.
Launched in 2024, Openvibe initially supported three of the most important open social networks, which they all operate using different protocols: Mastodon uses ActivityPub, Bluesky has worked on protocol and Nostr feeds a series of third -party apps. Openvibe later added support for Instagram threads, since the app became further integrated with ActivityPub and opened to the developer community.
As CEO Matej Svantcer explained at that moment, the idea behind his app was to offer users a more friendly and easy to use gateway “on the open social web. Due to the different protocols that these networks use, can Being difficult for new arrivals who end up having to change apps or limit their involvement to their favorite platform.
But Openvibe does not only allow people to stay in touch with friends in all these services in a combined temporal sequence, also allows post-post on multiple networks simultaneously.
With the capital added, Svantcer provides for accelerating product development, expanding the base of openvibe users, working on additions with other social platforms, perfecting the user interface and more.
In addition, it is worth noting the Investment of Automotic, since the company historically supports projects in the open source space, in particular those designed to compete with Big Tech. (Unfortunately, the CEO of Automotic and the co-creator of WordPress Matt Mullenweg has created a lot of division and drama within the WordPress community in recent months, which questions his commitment for open source values.)
However, the signs of Openvibe fundraising that exists a little appetite among investors for the support of apps and services that are taking advantage of the new open social protocols. Recently, for example, the investor and the celebrity entrepreneur Mark Cuban sent a call for video apps that are based on Bluesky to the protocol. Bluesky also collected funding, more recently his Serie A from $ 15 million last autumn.
OpenVIBE is available as a free App on iOS and Android, but provides to then introduce a subscription plan to generate revenue.
