Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about your company. Is it venture-funded? John Wu: We’re a customer-funded company. We view our customers as our partners in this. We have done several successful equity crowdfunding rounds in the last few years. We raised over $11 million in past rounds. A lot of it came from our
Sramana Mitra: But you would still have to sell the full product – hardware and software – if a carrier wants to work with you. John Wu: It depends on the carrier. Some carriers have their hardware vendors picked out. They want to use their hardware vendors. We can port the software onto this hardware.
Sramana Mitra: The primary pain point around which you’re positioning your solution is this parent trying to protect children. John Wu: Correct. That’s a very salient pain point that a lot of parents are facing today. Less so in terms of people concerned about their refrigerators getting hacked. Once you have our product, we let
Gryphon is a very interesting company in the B-to-C Cyber Security space. This interview discusses their go-to-market strategy and equity crowdfunding strategy in significant detail. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Gryphon.