Thanks for your question. You are right - it is not an easy business to start. Investors are more used to open source projects that are already released and have community adoption that they can measure. We are kinda the opposite - enterprise ready software that wants to go open source.
So we want to make the software open source, but restrict a few modules that would be necessary for enterprise customers, such as security and auditing features.
We have quite a few companies lined up that want to do proof of concept trials with us. So far they are mostly big fintech companies that use it for anti-fraud, also AML/KYC companies that need to match and search lots of data from different sources in real time. Also very large companies that need to solve their "data silo" problem.
Adoption - hopefully they start with the OSS version, play with then want to upgrade to the enterprise version.
One area we have less experience is with which type of OSS licence to use.
So we want to make the software open source, but restrict a few modules that would be necessary for enterprise customers, such as security and auditing features.
We have quite a few companies lined up that want to do proof of concept trials with us. So far they are mostly big fintech companies that use it for anti-fraud, also AML/KYC companies that need to match and search lots of data from different sources in real time. Also very large companies that need to solve their "data silo" problem.
Adoption - hopefully they start with the OSS version, play with then want to upgrade to the enterprise version.
One area we have less experience is with which type of OSS licence to use.