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Ryder raises $3.2M in a seed round led by billionaire investor Tim Draper.
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Ryder One offers crypto security in under 60 seconds.
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Funding will support production, engineering and marketing team growth, and a major marketing campaign.
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Ryder plans to enable tap-to-pay and everyday crypto transactions via a companion app.
Ryder, the company behind the user-friendly crypto hardware wallet Ryder One, has secured a significant seed investment to accelerate its growth.
Ryder Raises $3.2M Seed Round Led By Tim Draper
Ryder, has closed a $3.2 million seed funding round. The wallet is designed to give users complete crypto security in under 60 seconds, aiming to make managing digital assets simpler for everyone.
The funding round was led by Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates. Other participants included venture capital firms Borderless, Semantic, Smape, and VeryEarly, as well as angel investors Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, and Joe McCann, CEO of Asymmetric.
Funding To Expand Ryder One And Boost Growth
The funds will help Ryder increase production, grow its engineering and marketing teams, and continue improving its flagship product, Ryder One. The investment will also support a major marketing campaign to boost visibility and strengthen the brand.
“We created Ryder because we experienced firsthand how fragile and intimidating self-custody can be,” said Louise Ivan Payawal, co-founder and CEO of Ryder. “For too long, crypto has relied on seed phrases – a single piece of paper that could decide the fate of your entire wallet,” he added.
Marvin Janssen, Ryder’s CTO, explains that Ryder One is designed to make using crypto easy and natural to use. By simplifying the overall experience and improving recovery, it aims to let anyone, anywhere confidently own and use crypto.
Tim Draper, highlighted that the crypto industry needs solutions that don’t require in-depth technical knowledge but still maintain high security standards.
He praised Ryder’s wallet for its quick setup and offline design that keeps users’ holdings safe.
Solution For Secure Crypto Wallets
Ryder One introduces TapSafe recovery, a strong and secure solution for crypto wallets. TapSafe backups are spread across mobile phones and coin-sized NFC Recovery Tags, which must be physically combined to restore wallet access if it’s lost.
Tapsafe is redundant and self-custodial, and eliminates the single point of failure that has existed with seed phrases until now. With Ryder One, users can create and back up their wallet safely in under 60 seconds.
Bringing Crypto To Daily Payments
Looking ahead, Ryder plans to let users spend cryptocurrency directly from their hardware wallet with Ryder’s companion app for tap-to-pay and other everyday transactions, helping make digital money part of daily life.
Tim Draper is a long time Bitcoin proponent and predicts that retailers may eventually accept only Bitcoin for payments. He has also backed major crypto companies like Coinbase and Robinhood.