Dan Gallancy, Atakama’s CEO/Co-founder, shares the inspiration for starting a cybersecurity company and what it took to fund it.

Episode notes

Melissa and Dan Gallancy , CEO/Co-founder of Atakama , have an in-depth conversation on what it takes to start a company. His journey started in finance, exposing him to how others finance and create businesses. He then jumped into Bitcoin in the early days, which turned to filling the need for a multifactor encryption platform. He details how they financed the company, including personal capital, funding from venture capital, equity crowdfunding, and non-dilutive funding from Lighter Capital.