I find it funny that a report like this makes mention of Dataflow as a ‘spyware vendor’ (we are not, in fact! we only do research, and thus count as a ‘supplier’, a category they even bothered to distinguish only to not use it for us) and part of an ‘Italian cluster’ (we do not work with or have any control from any Italian company or related party in that list at all, and basically blacklisted the whole Italian private industry).

https://dfrlab.org/2024/09/04/mythical-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-report/

But also: Dataflow was not founded in 2022 and was founded by me (as entity, later joined by our other 4 co-founders), not Ofer Cohen. The ‘funding is mysterious’? We’ve been saying in public talks exactly how we’re funded: fully bootstrapped, using cash made selling items I found when the company began. The capital increase mentioned here is funny as well since it’s a utility subsidiary 100% owned by us. We increased the capital ourselves to finance operations, it’s not that deep. It’s 100k.

@qwertyoruiop the interactive graph crashed my browser

The funny thing is they quote some random website that very likely scrapes LinkedIn as ‘source’ for our ‘Org Chart’, since it shows the 9 people in the whole org that have LinkedIn, lmao. Getting founders and starting year *wrong*?Probably as surface level research as you possibly can, since in Italy all this data is publicly available under some token administrative fee. Did the Atlantic Council put an intern on this?

(to be fully correct, the cofounders all ended up putting up some capital when they joined to acquire shares, but it is fair to say the company from day one has been funded entirely off the cash flow the company itself made, and never paid a dividend in it’s lifetime)