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---
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atroot: true
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template:
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slug: seed
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title: announcing our €3,8M seed round
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subtitle: and more on what's next
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date: 2026-03-02
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image: https://assets.tangled.network/seed.png
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authors:
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- name: Anirudh
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email: anirudh@tangled.org
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handle: anirudh.fi
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---
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Today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) financing round led by
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[byFounders](https://byfounders.vc), with participation from [Bain
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Capital Crypto](https://baincapitalcrypto.com/),
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[Antler](https://antler.co), Thomas Dohmke (former GitHub CEO), Avery
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Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale), among other incredible angels.
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For the past year, we've been building Tangled from the ground up --
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starting from first principles and asking ourselves what code
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collaboration should really look like. We made deliberate,
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[future-facing technology](https://anirudh.fi/future) choices. We chose
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to build on top of the AT Protocol as it helped us realize a federated,
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open network where users can own their code and social data. We shipped
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stacked PRs to enable more efficient contribution and review workflows.
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What started off as a side project, grew to over 7k+ users, who've
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created over 5k+ repositories.
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Our vision for Tangled has always been big: we want to build the best
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code forge ever, and become foundational infrastructure for the next
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generation of open source. Whatever that looks like: hundreds of devs
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building artisanal libraries, or one dev and a hundred agents building a
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micro-SaaS.
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And finding the right investors to help us acheive this vision wasn't
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something we took lightly. We spent months getting to know potential
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partners -- among which, byFounders stood out immediately. Like us,
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they're community-driven at their core, and their commitment to
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transparency runs deep -- you can see the very term sheet we signed on
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their website! With these shared fundamental values, we knew byFounders
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were the right people to have in our corner and we're incredibly excited
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to work with them.
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## what's next
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We're heads down building. For 2026, expect to see:
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* a fully revamped CI (spindle v2!) built on micro VMs to allow for
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faster builds and more choice of build environments. Oh, and a proper
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Nix CI -- we know you want it.
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* protocol-level improvements across the board that'll unlock nifty
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things like repo migrations across knots, organizations, and more!
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* a customizable "mission control" dashboard for your active PRs,
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issues, and anything else you might want to track.
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* a migration tool to help you move off GitHub
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* all things search: code search, repo search, etc.
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* platform and infrastructure performance improvements & more global
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presence
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* Tangled CLI!
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If all this sounds exciting to you: we're growing our team! Shoot us
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[an email](mailto:team@tangled.org) telling us a bit about yourself and
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any past work that might be relevant, and what part of the roadmap
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interests you most. We can hire from (almost) anywhere.
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New to Tangled? [Get started here](https://docs.tangled.org/). Oh, and
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come hang on [Discord](https://chat.tangled.org)!
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A sincere thank you to everyone that helped us get here -- we're giddy
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about what's to come.