🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-22
Exploring funding insights, the ongoing struggles in the open-source landscape, fighting digital bad guys!
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Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🔥 + 💰 There’s always money in the banana stand applies to open-source alternatives to wildly successful platforms.
Techmeme: Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase that's used by 2M developers, raised a $200M Series D led by Accel at a $2B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
By Allie Garfinkle / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ + 💰 There’s also a never ending battle against the digital bad guys.
Techmeme: Bethesda, Maryland-based AuthMind, which offers observability-based identity protection services to enterprises, raised a $19.3M seed led by Cheyenne Ventures (Dan Primack/Axios)
By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
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