NetBox Labs July 2025 Newsletter
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A Letter from Our CEO
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This month at NetBox Labs, we announced our $35M Series B funding round, led by NGP Capital with new investors Sorenson and Headline, along with participation from the world class array of existing open source investors that’s been backing NetBox Labs from the start. This is a tremendous achievement just two years after our Series A funding. Thank you. From the start, the NetBox Labs team has been 100% committed to building a scalable and sustainable business model that remains true to our open source roots. We’ve worked to establish a virtuous circle of investment in open source: we build commercial products around our open source core that deliver value to organizations operating critical infrastructure at scale, and we reinvest the revenue from those commercial products in our open source projects to deliver value to the community. The community grows, new organizations adopt NetBox and decide to leverage our commercial products, and the cycle continues. We have built a scalable and sustainable business model that enables us to continually grow our investment in open source. You can read more about our open source philosophy here. Our community is at the heart of every decision we make. “Community first” is one of four core values at NetBox Labs. And I’m proud that even as we’ve grown our commercial business extremely rapidly, we’ve stayed true to that value and to our virtuous circle strategy. The team that works on open source and open core products at NetBox Labs has grown fast: there are dozens of full time staff dedicated to our open projects – NetBox, Diode, Orb, and more. Now what? We’ll add more fuel to our virtuous circle. NetBox Labs will grow even faster, and we will invest in our projects and community at greater scale. We will deliver more projects and products into the NetBox ecosystem, and we will continue to support the rapidly expanding set of users, use cases, ecosystem extensions and integrations, partners, and contributors to NetBox and our other projects. We are investing more – and attracting more investment – because our model for sustaining and scaling open source works, and because the world needs NetBox. Infrastructure and networks are growing more critical and complex in every facet of business and society. AI is hungry for infrastructure. Every organization continues to digitize at a compounding rate. Operating, understanding, automating, and securing all that infrastructure is the work of our community, and our work serves you. Our mission at NetBox Labs is to make it easier to build and manage complex networks and infrastructure. We’re just getting started, and we’re thrilled to pursue this mission together with you, our community. Best, -Kris |
NetBox News & Ecosystem Highlights |
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NetBox Event Streams: Real-Time Automation & NetSecOps Visibility NetBox Event Streams provides real-time updates on infrastructure changes—enabling instant integrations with tools like Splunk and Elastic, automating device onboarding, and giving security teams live network insights. Explore the blog post to see how Event Streams powers faster response, reduced manual effort, and seamless collaboration between network and security teams. NetBox Branching v0.6.0: Now with Seamless Upgrade Support NetBox Branching now supports upgrades with open branches—making it easier than ever to manage infrastructure changes without disrupting active work. Read the blog post to see how v0.6.0 enables safer collaboration, smoother NetBox 4.3 upgrades, better plugin compatibility, and production-ready branching workflows across your team. NetBox Custom Objects Now in Public Preview NetBox Custom Objects—our no-code way to extend the NetBox data model—is now available in public preview. Read the announcement to learn how this powerful new feature lets you model your own objects without writing plugins, and how to get started. NetBox + Cisco Meraki Integration Now in Private Preview A new integration between NetBox and Cisco Meraki is now in private preview, enabling full sync of cloud-managed devices, IPs, VLANs, and wireless networks into your source of truth. Read the announcement to see how this integration improves visibility, reduces drift, and aligns Meraki infrastructure with your NetBox environment. NetBox Labs Raises $35M Series B NetBox Labs has secured $35M in Series B fundin, reinforcing our commitment to sustainable open source investment. Read the full announcement to learn how this funding will accelerate our virtuous circle strategy. |
NetBox Community News |
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August Community Meetup – Our next meetup is scheduled for Tuesday August 12, 2025 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST / 8:00-9:00 am PST / 15:00 UTC. As ever there will be NetBox feature updates, plus awesome demos from fellow community members! Register here. |
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Key Community Links 👩💻 Speak at a NetBox Meetup | 💬 Join NetDev Slack Channel | 🎙️ Listen to NetBox Heroes |
🛳️ NetBox OSS Releases |
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NetBox v4.3.4 – 2025-07-15 – The last month saw two new releases with over 20 bug fixes and several key improvements, including:
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Events & Trainings at a Glance |
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AutoCon 4 (November 17 – 21, Austin) Austin here we come! Hosted by the Network Automation Forum, AutoCon returns this November to explore why full network automation adoption remains elusive. Join us along with top engineers, developers, and industry leaders for cutting-edge discussions, workshops, and networking events. Sign up to stay updated on everywhere we will be in Austin in November — and don’t forget to schedule a meeting with our team! |
