Tailscale
Also known as Tailscale Inc.
Toronto software company behind the Tailscale mesh VPN, built on WireGuard.
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People
Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw (co-founder and CTO) and 2 others
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- Tailscale makes an open-source mesh VPN and the web service that manages it.
- Clients connect peer to peer over WireGuard and fall back to relays when they cannot.
- Four Google engineers founded it in 2019.
- Its name comes from the 2013 Google paper The Tail at Scale.
Key facts
- Founded
- 20191
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Ontario1
- Funding
- Series A $12 million (November 2020, led by Accel); Series B $100 million (May 2022, led by CRV and Insight Partners); Series C $160 million (April 2025, led by Accel)1
People
Founded by
- Avery Pennarun
- David CrawshawPerson
co-founder and CTO 1
- David Carney
- Brad Fitzpatrick
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