Tailscale has raised $160M
a year ago
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- Tailscale raised $160 million in Series C funding led by Accel, with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.
- The funding aims to accelerate efforts in removing friction, scaling networks without complexity, and making identity the core of secure connectivity.
- Tailscale's identity-first networking approach focuses on connecting people and services rather than just IP addresses.
- The AI industry and companies like Perplexity, Mistral, and Hugging Face use Tailscale to manage GPU connections and secure workloads across clouds.
- Tailscale plans to expand engineering and product teams to support growing demand and maintain free support for free customers.
- Investors include Accel's Amit Kumar, Anthony Casalena of Squarespace, and returning investors like CRV and George Kurtz of Crowdstrike.