Finnish Startup Tangled Secures €3.8 Million To Scale Global Software Collaboration Platform

Funding round was led by Founders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and existing investor Antler. Angel backers include Thomas Dohmke, Avery Pennarun, Mårten Mickos, and Sami Honkonen.

Founded by brothers Akshay and Anirudh Oppiliappan, Tangled is building a social-enabled platform designed to rethink how developers collaborate across an open, extensible network. The founders previously worked on large-scale distributed systems and code intelligence platforms within Y Combinator-backed startups.

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Tangled argues that while AI-assisted coding has driven a sharp rise in the number of professional developers in recent years, existing tools for contribution and review remain a bottleneck for effective collaboration between humans and AI agents.

To address this, the company is moving beyond centralised legacy systems by building on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, enabling API-less interoperability across an open network. The approach aims to give developers ownership of their work and professional relationships, while allowing both human developers and AI agents to participate natively.

By combining developer tooling with social functionality, Tangled positions itself as a European alternative to platforms such as GitHub, emphasising transparency, openness, and developer sovereignty.

Anirudh Oppiliappan, co-founder of Tangled, comments, “Tangled is built on the belief that code collaboration should be as open and social as the web itself. We are moving beyond the limitations of centralised silos to give developers a platform where they actually own their data and their social graph. This funding allows us to build the foundational layer for software collaboration where both human developers and autonomous AI agents can participate directly in the network.”

About Tangled

Tangled is a next-generation social coding platform reimagining how developers collaborate. Built on an open, extensible network it combines developer tools with social features, enabling seamless interaction between human developers and AI agents while promoting transparency, interoperability and true ownership of code and professional connections.