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ZenGo raises $20 million for its secure crypto wallet app
ZenGo, a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. ZenGo is a non-custodial wallet, which means that the company doesn’t manage your crypto assets for you you remain in control.
Other investors include Distributed Global and Austin Rief Ventures. Existing investors Benson Oak, Samsung Next, Elron, Collider Ventures, FJ Labs and others also participated in today’s funding round.
What makes ZenGo different from other wallet apps is that the company is trying to build something that is more secure than your average crypto wallet while remaining simple to use and understand. It competes with other non-custodial wallets, such as Coinbase Wallet (not Coinbase.com), Argent, etc.
How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew : How I Built This with Guy Raz
Six years ago, Morning Brew started out as a fun business newsletter Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief wrote for their classmates out of their University of Michigan dorm room. The company now has over 2.5 million subscribers with multiple newsletters and a podcast, and last year Business Insider paid about 75 million dollars for a majority stake in Morning Brew. Alex and Austin talk to Guy about the organic unpaid marketing they relied on in college to build up their readership, and they predict shifts in how we will consume news in the next five years. These conversations are excerpts from our
ETtech Morning Dispatch on 25 Jan. 2021: Top tech news to start your day
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Last Updated: Jan 25, 2021, 08:42 AM IST
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From Indian IT’s post-pandemic outlook to NITI Aayog’s plan to create India’s Alibaba for MSMEs, here’s a look at the top tech news to start your day.
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Good morning, ETtech reader.
Today, we are looking at the Indian IT industry’s outlook on overseas business after the pandemic abates, as well as startups’ pushback against WhatsApp’s new privacy policy. Also in the news are NITI Aayog’s plans for creating India’s Alibaba for MSMEs, and the upcoming Budget 2021 and what it should entail for the country’s startup ecosystem.
The growth, according to Lieberman, was not linear. During his Jan. 16 appearance on
Motley Fool Live, Lieberman and Motley Fool marketing manager Margaret Powell discussed a concept he calls the balloon effect, and what it means for young companies looking to rapidly expand their reach.
Alex Lieberman: The last thing I ll say is this idea of the balloon effect, which I ve written about is, I think the Morning Brew has experienced this. I think that even in some ways, it s something that The Fool has experienced over The Fool s history. When I think about famous YouTubers like MrBeast or David Dobrik, the way that the balloon effect works is, a company is relentlessly focused on creating great products and getting customers organically for a long period of time. So let s say a business has been around for 10 years. Basically, the idea of the balloon effect, just for eight of those years, the business isn t getting a lot of recognition, it isn t that massive yet, it s growin