🧵 1. Snowstorm, a project started by Serene to ensure open internet access, raised $3 million in seed funding led by Seed Club Ventures and other investors. #tech
🧵 1. Snowstorm, a project started by Serene to ensure open internet access, raised $3 million in seed funding led by Seed Club Ventures and other investors. #tech
🧵 2. Serene, a former Google engineer, created Snowflake as a pluggable transport for Tor. Now evolved into Snowstorm, it offers faster connections and is not reliant on Tor.
🧵 3. Snowstorm's decentralized approach uses about 100,000 people worldwide to act as brokers, providing privacy and avoiding censorship that traditional VPNs can face.
🧵 4. Inspired by her own difficult childhood, Serene's mission is to keep the internet free and uncensored. Snowstorm's open beta is set to launch this quarter.
🧵 Read more at: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/19/snowstorm/