[capableweb]

Where is the company incorporated? In most countries, companies act for profits first. Especially if you raise funding from a few selected ones instead of the wider community.

This statement reads weird too

> We don’t believe in placing artificial constraints on the tool or having functionality behind a paywall. In order to support the open source project, we’ll be building supplemental products and services. This aligns our incentives with the community and our open source users, with a focus on interoperability, performance, and usability.

Supplemental products and services on top of open source projects often require (down the line) the open source project to adapt because it might hurt the bottom line of these supplemental products and services. Since there is no guarantee this won't happen, if the stake is between the company surviving or a feature being open-source vs "supplemental", the people working at the company might have to chose the option against the wishes of their open source users. I don't see how creating a for-profit company is at all in alignment with open source users. Better would have been a Co-op, a non-profit, OpenCollective, or leverage an existing entity like the Linux foundation, that can actually guarantee it for you in contracts and laws.

[leodriesch]

Sebastian actually tried fundraising, but I think the campaign got stuck at about 36k of the 100k goal. https://rome.tools/funding/

VC money is just on another level, although as you said it comes with its own difficulties.