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fosrlWhat its open source looked like when it raised

Identity-aware VPN and tunneled reverse proxy for remote access based on WireGuard®.

Website
pangolin.net
Repository
fosrl/pangolin
First commit
Stars today
22,568
Forks
770

The round

$500K Seed announced 1 May 2025

$0.5M
ALT Capital · Bessemer Venture Partners · Forum Ventures · Sangeen ZEB · Matrix · S28 Capital · SaaS Venture Capital · Slack Fund · Y Combinator · Allen Gannett · Edith Harbaugh · OTT Kaukver
Source: other, startupintros.com

The repository was 7 months old on the day the round was announced.

Monthly reconstruction

GitHub stars, 1 Jan 2025 – 1 Jul 2026

19 observations · one per month

3,0105,8908,78011,670 1 May 2025 — round announced 7,814 13,160 Feb ’25Apr ’25Jun ’25Aug ’25Oct ’25Dec ’25Feb ’26Apr ’26Jun ’26
Stars, reconstructed month by month Funding announcement

What the curve says

Growth was faster before the announcement

In the 120 days to 1 May 2025 the repository added 6,298 stars. In the 365 days after, it added 5,325 — a rate 3.6× lower.

7,814
stars on 1 May 2025, the last reading before the round
52.5/day
1 Jan 2025 – 1 May 2025, before
14.6/day
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026, after

What this does not show

  • Stars measure attention, not revenue, adoption or retention.
  • Each point is a month-end reading reconstructed from public event data, not a direct observation. Movement inside a month is invisible here, and the level can be understated.
  • A single launch post can produce a step like this without any change in usage.

We have been recording fosrl/pangolin since 1 Jan 2025.

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