One of the founders of WhatsApp, invests 50 million dollars in Signal

In recent years, the Signal platform has become one of the most used by all those who are afraid that their conversations could be intercepted, being politics and the business sector its main users.

But since its launch, Signal has tried to come up with all possible platforms without having to resort to venture capital companies, since their independence and transparency would be affected, but without money it is very difficult to advance a platform that has become a benchmark in secure communications.

Since the creation of Signal, the average number of engineers who have been working on the project has been 2,3, sometimes reaching up to 7 full-time people collaborating in the development of the service and applications. Signal is working to be able to offer support to the maximum number of platforms, it wants to integrate into the largest possible number of services to be able to assist more users and achieve that everyone can communicate completely securely.

Signal has never taken venture capital funds or sought investment, because we think that putting profit first would be incompatible with building a sustainable project that puts users first. As a consequence, Signal has suffered at times from our lack of short-term resources or capacity, but we've always felt that those values ​​would lead to the best possible long-term experience.

So that the platform can continue to develop without conditions, the co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, has donated 50 million dollars, money with which the platform will not only be able to continue operating independently, but will also allow it to continue expanding the ecosystems in which it is available so that over time the number of users increases.

Starting with seed funding of $ 50.000.000, we can now increase our team size, our capacity, and our ambitions. This means less uncertainty on the path to sustainability and strengthening our long-term goals and values. Perhaps most importantly, Brian's summation brings to our team an incredibly talented and visionary engineer with decades of experience building successful products.


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  1.   Serge Rivas said

    It seems very correct that they donate money to companies with these clear objectives.