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In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. Today, with one bitcoin selling for over $60k, those same coins are worth over half a billion dollars. Hopefully the delivery guy or gal hung on to those coins!

Stilt launched their new product 80% quicker than they could have without VGS, and achieved PCI Level 2 compliance in just 1 week.

Accounting is one of the oldest professions. Archeologists have studied financial records that are four times older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “Tally marks” were etched into the thigh bone of a baboon 20,000 years ago as a form of “correspondence counting.” Of course, the earliest forms of accounting were relatively slow, insecure, and probably didn’t travel very far.

Very Good Security customer Flutterwave recently shared some excellent news! They raised $170 million in a recent Series C round, led by U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global and New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital.

One truth we’ve all had to grapple with: COVID-19 forced almost every company to start working remotely.

Before the pandemic, our VGS team always believed it was more effective to work from the office. Although our company was distributed between two countries and had a positive attitude towards working remotely, we were an ‘office first’ culture.

If you’re reading this blog, you already know what PCI is. Chances are, you also have some inclination that it’s a pain in the you-know-what too. Just how severe that pain can be is something else altogether.

Welcome to the new and improved VGS dashboard.

As part of our mission to constantly make sure our users have a simple and easy-to-navigate experience on our platform, we are thrilled to announce our new personalized user experience called Personalized Next Steps.

Have you ever wondered where your data really goes when you send it to the cloud? If you followed the bits, there is a good chance that you would find your scientific research, shopping carts, and personal emails on a hard drive in the world’s largest data depot, inside northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.

As little as five years ago it was rare to see venture investment filtering through Africa, with seven-figure seed investment rounds happening as infrequently as spotting a bat-eared fox on safari. Fast forward to 2021... Early-stage startups in the region are bagging multi-million dollar deals and pre-seed rounds are taking off, paving the way for the world's next household names.

So what’s changed, and why is fintech at the core of this shift?

Today we announced that we are empowering organizations to prepare for their first SOC 2 audit completely free with VGS Control. This stems from our mission to protect the world’s sensitive data and we are relentlessly committed to delivering solutions for the ever-changing complexities of security and compliance.