[2023] Mozilla and Gary Vee fund cryptocurrency company Webacy - eviltoast
Crypto Wallet Security Layer Webacy Raises $4M
www.coindesk.com
Investors included entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and Mozilla Ventures.

Gary Vee is a notorious grifter NFT salesman with a checkered past.

Webacy is a cryptocurrency wallet “technology layer” that “provides security features” like password backup, “digital wills”, etc.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    282·
    2 months ago

    So we are doing AI and Crypto, but shutting down Mozilla.social?

    Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

    • LWD@lemm.eeOP
      9·
      2 months ago

      Mozilla genuinely believes that this company follows the principles of the Mozilla Manifesto. At least, according to what Mozilla.vc says on its homepage.

      (See more of the $35 million of its investments there.)

      Other investments include:

      • Rodeo, an app that acknowledges the Gig Economy is harmful to Uber and Lyft drivers, but fundamentally doesn’t want to change those harms.
      • HuggingFace, a company valued at $4.5 billion already.
      • lockrMail, an “inbox protecting” tool with a Chrome extension but no Firefox equivalent, and a direct competitor to Firefox Relay.