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4slug: seed
5title: announcing our €3,8M seed round
6subtitle: and more on what's next
7date: 2026-03-02
8image: https://assets.tangled.network/blog/seed.png
9authors:
10 - name: Anirudh
11 email: anirudh@tangled.org
12 handle: anirudh.fi
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17Today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) financing round led by
18[byFounders](https://byfounders.vc), with participation from [Bain
19Capital Crypto](https://baincapitalcrypto.com/),
20[Antler](https://antler.co), Thomas Dohmke (former GitHub CEO), Avery
21Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale), among other incredible angels.
22
23For the past year, we've been building Tangled from the ground up --
24starting from first principles and asking ourselves what code
25collaboration should really look like. We made deliberate,
26[future-facing technology](https://anirudh.fi/future) choices. We chose
27to build on top of the AT Protocol as it helped us realize a federated,
28open network where users can own their code and social data. We shipped
29stacked PRs to enable more efficient contribution and review workflows.
30What started off as a side project, grew to over 7k+ users, who've
31created over 5k+ repositories.
32
33Our vision for Tangled has always been big: we want to build the best
34code forge ever, and become foundational infrastructure for the next
35generation of open source. Whatever that looks like: hundreds of devs
36building artisanal libraries, or one dev and a hundred agents building a
37micro-SaaS.
38
39And finding the right investors to help us acheive this vision wasn't
40something we took lightly. We spent months getting to know potential
41partners -- among which, byFounders stood out immediately. Like us,
42they're community-driven at their core, and their commitment to
43transparency runs deep -- you can see the very term sheet we signed on
44their website! With these shared fundamental values, we knew byFounders
45were the right people to have in our corner and we're incredibly excited
46to work with them.
47
48## what's next
49
50We're heads down building. For 2026, expect to see:
51
52* a fully revamped CI (spindle v2!) built on micro VMs to allow for
53 faster builds and more choice of build environments. Oh, and a proper
54 Nix CI -- we know you want it.
55* protocol-level improvements across the board that'll unlock nifty
56 things like repo migrations across knots, organizations, and more!
57* a customizable "mission control" dashboard for your active PRs,
58 issues, and anything else you might want to track.
59* a migration tool to help you move off GitHub
60* all things search: code search, repo search, etc.
61* platform and infrastructure performance improvements & more global
62presence
63* Tangled CLI!
64
65If all this sounds exciting to you: we're growing our team! Shoot us
66[an email](mailto:team@tangled.org) telling us a bit about yourself and
67any past work that might be relevant, and what part of the roadmap
68interests you most. We can hire from (almost) anywhere.
69
70New to Tangled? [Get started here](https://docs.tangled.org/). Oh, and
71come hang on [Discord](https://chat.tangled.org)!
72
73A sincere thank you to everyone that helped us get here -- we're giddy
74about what's to come.