--- title: The Funding Announcement We Never Made | daily.dev description: Bruno, the local-first, git-native API client, revealed it quietly raised $3M from Silverton Partners about a year ago without a public announcement. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-funding-announcement-we-never-made-joknszzvh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Funding Announcement We Never Made | daily.dev og:description: Bruno, the local-first, git-native API client, revealed it quietly raised $3M from Silverton Partners about a year ago without a public announcement. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-funding-announcement-we-never-made-joknszzvh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jokNszZvh.png og:image:alt: The Funding Announcement We Never Made og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Funding Announcement We Never Made **[Bruno Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/usebruno)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bruno, the local-first, git-native API client, revealed it quietly raised $3M from Silverton Partners about a year ago without a public announcement. The founders explain their decision to focus on building rather than publicizing, describe how they made several previously paid features (gRPC, WebSocket, response visualization, terminal mode, file mode) free instead of adding restrictions, and outline continued investment in Bruno Desktop, CLI, VS Code integration, and a new open format called OpenCollection for portable API workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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