Founders / David Crawshaw
David Crawshaw
David Crawshaw is a co-founder of Tailscale, an AI infrastructure and compute company based in Toronto. David Crawshaw co-founded Tailscale with Avery Pennarun, David Carney and Brad Fitzpatrick. Tailscale is listed in the portfolio of Panache Ventures.
Co-founder of Tailscale.
Tailscale
Secure networking; AI-era infra; acquired Border0.
- Role
- Co-founder
- HQ
- Toronto, ON
- Founded
- 2019
- Status
- Active
- Website
- tailscale.com
Co-founders: Avery Pennarun, David Carney, Brad Fitzpatrick
Investors: Panache Ventures
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Data as of November 10, 2026.