#326: Maika Isogawa Of Webacy, From Acrobat To Tech Startup Founder Building The Future Of Digital Asset Management

Maika Isogawa is the Founder and CEO of Webacy, a platform for securing digital assets for the unexpected. Maika is a former professional acrobat and performer for the Cirque Du Soleil brand of shows. She is also a Stanford '20 alumnus with a special concentration in Symbolic Systems, a program which combines the study of Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Linguistics, Philosophy, and more. Maika was most recently a Cybersecurity Engineer for Microsoft. She has since founded Webacy, and has been recently recognized as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Topics Covered by Maika Isogawa in this Episode

• What Webacy does

• What led Maika to found Webacy

• Maika’s experience and background

• Her experience as a first-time tech founder

• Finding her co-founder and deciding to start a company together

• Onboarding their early team members

• How Maika’s skills learned as a Cirque Du Soleil acrobat apply to being a tech startup founder

• Navigating the Web3 space

• The vision for how Webacy’s relatively small target market will grow

• Webacy’s hybrid go to market strategy

• Approaching trust and safety in crypto

• Maika’s view on the community element of Webacy

• Maika’s path from leaving Microsoft to building Webacy

• Raising Webacy’s pre-seed funding round

• How angel investors have provided value beyond funds in building Webacy

• How they’re thinking about future fundraising

• Maika’s view on Webacy’s competitors

• Webacy’s unique value proposition in digital asset security

• How Maika finds balance with her wide variety of interests

• What’s next for Webacy

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