🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-08
Tariffs Tuesday? I’ll let other newsletters handle that…
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.
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
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.
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
By Todd Bishop / GeekWire. View the full context on Techmeme.
