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>>> Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time collaborator Ben Noordhuis.

Why is the Mozilla Corporation an investor in a Chrome based technology startup ?

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Deno poses itself partially as node with web standards, Mozilla likes when things are webby
Well, Deno is using Rust extensively and V8 is the only "Chrome" part.
Didn't Mozilla fire a substantial amount of their Rust developers?

And all Servo developers according to: https://paulrouget.com/bye_mozilla.html

No, they laid off a substantial amount of their Rust team, but the number of overall developers employed by Mozilla was quite small.

Mozilla continues to be interested in Rust even though they did that, they’re a founding sponsor of the Rust Foundation, for example, and are continuing to use Rust even though they do not employ people to work on the language itself.