To be honest I don’t think VC funding is really a measure of anything. It may be an interesting thing to look at if the VC has funded other privacy invasive projects in the past (because they simply don’t care how they get to monetization) but other than that I can’t really see it meaning anything.
I think the issue for Skiff might have simply been poor management in a couple of areas specifically their funding model from clients (for example giving 100GB away for free to every free user) while generous isn’t going to encourage anyone to pay for the service. Services like these can’t run for free.
The other thing being marketing, they were particularly aggressive and push with being listed on PG - I suspect to inflate their numbers as they knew this Notion thing was going to happen.
That is why we weren’t in a rush to add it, particularly when it it initially had zero data liberation features, among the other issues mentioned in the other thread.