👀Oyo Founder Seeks New Investment at $3.8B Valuation Ritesh Agarwal, Oyo’s founder, plans to invest $65.1M into the company through Redsprig Innovation Partners, valuing it at $3.8B – 38% higher than its June valuation of $2.3B but far below its 2019 peak of $10B. This comes as Oyo prepares for a third IPO attempt.
👀Oyo Founder Seeks New Investment at $3.8B Valuation Ritesh Agarwal, Oyo’s founder, plans to invest $65.1M into the company through Redsprig Innovation Partners, valuing it at $3.8B – 38% higher than its June valuation of $2.3B but far below its 2019 peak of $10B. This comes as Oyo prepares for a third IPO attempt.
As such, the SC would like to remind investors to always exercise caution when evaluating investment opportunities, especially those promising unrealistically high returns with little or no risk. Investors should also never deposit money into someone’s personal bank account if instructed. Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” These questions should inform your decisions about whether you are using the right tool or platform for your digital security needs. Telegram is certainly not the most secure messaging app on the market right now. Its security model requires users to place a great deal of trust in Telegram’s ability to protect user data. For some users, this may be good enough for now. For others, it may be wiser to move to a different platform for certain kinds of high-risk communications. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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