Hey @DavidT
I’m relatively new here and so my informations might not be 100% reliable 
But as I understood things the funding is “safe” because they exchanged it in fiat currency after the crowdsale:
“It raised over $7 million in Mastercoins and Bitcoins. The value of the Mastercoins (half of the currency) subsequently declined, leaving the total from the sale at $5.5 million” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaidSafe)
and the safecoins themselves are pretty safe because of Mastercoin issues and implications for Maidsafe funding