🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-08
Funding insights: Tailscale impresses as a VPN exception amid a tricky drone warfare landscape.
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Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🛜 + 💰 I am a happy long time Tailscale customer and this is pleasing to see as they are the only exception I have to saying VPN stands for Vexing Productivity Neutralizer.
Techmeme: Toronto-based Tailscale, which offers an enterprise mesh VPN service, raised $160M led by Accel, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1B in May 2022 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
By Katie Roof / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤖 + 💰 I am reminded of Mr. Rogers looking for the helpers among the increasingly dystopian drone warfare landscape.
Techmeme: Emergency response drone maker Brinc raised $75M led by Index Ventures, taking its total funding to $157.2M; Motorola will become a distributor of Brinc drones (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
By Todd Bishop / GeekWire. View the full context on Techmeme.
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