Multi-Sig Bitcoin Wallet Provider BitGo Raises $12 Million

Multi-Sig Bitcoin Wallet Provider BitGo Raises $12 Million

Bitcoin-focused security-as-a-service provider BitGo has secured $12m in new funding courtesy of several venture capitalists, seasoned bitcoin investors and a famed Hollywood A-lister. The funding round was led by VC firm Redpoint Ventures and it attracted Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity Corporation, Radar Partners, Liberty City Ventures, Crypto Currency Partners and Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments. Speaking to CoinDesk, BitGo CEO Will O'Brien framed the successful funding round as being about "more than capital", telling CoinDesk: "The folks that we've brought on [are] people....


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