This entity’s initiator and ultimate beneficiary is Suji Yan, with no venture capital involved. Suji Yan also runs several other companies, which have institutional investors involved. These information are public info.
Regarding the entity name on Pawoo news 'Social Coop Ltd' - this have no relationship with instance social.coop . Apologies to the social.coop community on the name conflict and this is not our brand name, and we have no plan to use it. We have to use offshore entity to facilitate pawoo transaction, so this new entity was used at the last moment and media report verified our deal through co. registry, which is public record.
We will upgrade mastodon.cloud to mastodon v4 in upcoming weeks. Sorry for the inconveniences. We will also testing and plan the upgrade for mstdn.jp and later pawoo.net.