- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"topic": "Founder count in acquisition press", "conflict": "Cloudflare acquisition blog names only Ryan Lackey as founder; YC and third-party databases list three founders (Lackey, Berls, Sparks)", "source_urls": ["https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cryptoseal"]}, {"topic": "Founding date", "conflict": "Sources cite 2011 (YC), May 2011 (Ryan Lackey to PCWorld), and Oct 2010 (Ryan Lackey LinkedIn work start)", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cryptoseal", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/448224/u-s-vpn-provider-shuts-consumer-service-in-response-to-lavabit-case.html", "https://linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey"]}, {"topic": "Headquarters / location", "conflict": "YC lists Mountain View; consumer-shutdown reporting placed company in San Francisco", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cryptoseal", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/448224/u-s-vpn-provider-shuts-consumer-service-in-response-to-lavabit-case.html"]}, {"topic": "Total funding amount", "conflict": "YCDB reports $0.3M total; Tracxn redacts amounts; Wikipedia cites Ron Conway plus unnamed VC fund without dollar figures; Cloudflare cites YC plus unnamed security angels", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycdb.co/company/cryptoseal", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/cryptoseal/__aNxiOrwOFt9IW3mpvJnEyGFanMM27bu4DaAEpg86oOM", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Donald_Lackey", "https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/"]}, {"topic": "Start Fund $150k (Yuri Milner / SV Angel)", "gap": "Summer 2011 YC batch was broadly offered $150k convertible notes and most accepted, but no primary source confirms CryptoSeal specifically accepted", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/start-fund-and-sv-angel-invest-9-million-in-new-y-combinator-startups/", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-every-new-y-combinator-startup-150k/"]}, {"topic": "Named VC fund", "gap": "Wikipedia states funding from Ron Conway and a well-known venture capital fund but does not name the fund", "source_urls": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Donald_Lackey"]}, {"topic": "Acquisition price", "gap": "Terms not disclosed in Cloudflare announcement or PCWorld reporting", "source_urls": ["https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/439909/cloudflare-acquires-enterprise-vpn-provider-cryptoseal.html"]}, {"topic": "Team at acquisition", "gap": "Erik Berls LinkedIn shows departure Jan 2013; only Ryan Lackey confirmed joining Cloudflare; fate of other founders at acquisition not documented in acquisition sources", "source_urls": ["https://linkedin.com/in/berls", "https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://linkedin.com/in/tom-sparks-46562"]}, {"topic": "Entity confusion", "gap": "Max Krohn (Keybase co-founder) is unrelated to CryptoSeal despite both working in key management/cryptography", "source_urls": ["https://maxk.org/"]}, {"topic": "Third-party database accuracy", "gap": "Some aggregators (e.g., Tracxn) contain stale or incorrect post-exit status; not used as primary facts beyond redacted round metadata", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/cryptoseal/__aNxiOrwOFt9IW3mpvJnEyGFanMM27bu4DaAEpg86oOM"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/cryptoseal-vpn-shuts-down-rather-than-risk-nsa-demands-for-crypto-keys/", "https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/", "https://blog.cloudflare.com/q-a-with-ryan-lackey/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Donald_Lackey", "https://evertas.com/about/ryan-lackey/", "https://linkedin.com/in/berls", "https://linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey", "https://linkedin.com/in/tom-sparks-46562", "https://maxk.org/", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-every-new-y-combinator-startup-150k/", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/start-fund-and-sv-angel-invest-9-million-in-new-y-combinator-startups/", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/cryptoseal-offers-vpn-as-a-service-for-all-that-secure-data-you-risk-when-using-the-coffee-house-wi-fi/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/cryptoseal/__aNxiOrwOFt9IW3mpvJnEyGFanMM27bu4DaAEpg86oOM", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/439909/cloudflare-acquires-enterprise-vpn-provider-cryptoseal.html", "https://www.pcworld.com/article/448224/u-s-vpn-provider-shuts-consumer-service-in-response-to-lavabit-case.html", "https://www.techdirt.com/2013/10/21/another-us-secure-service-shuts-down-cryptoseal-vpn-goes-dark-to-protect-against-us-surveillance/", "https://www.theregister.com/security/2014/06/19/cloudflare-slurps-cryptoseal/538533", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/cryptoseal", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/a-new-standard-deal", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cryptoseal", "https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-acquires-vpn-service-cryptoseal-shuts-it-down/"]