We're Gen Z college dropouts who raised $41.4M for our blockchain startup. Here's how we did it

Gen Z tech entrepreneurs Cooper Scanlon and Rushi Manche, cofounders of Movement Labs. (Credit: courtesy movement labs)

In a late-stage economy dominated by established players, opportunity for new economic entrants can be bleak. So we went our own way. In the fall of 2022, at 19 and 22, we dropped out of Vanderbilt to establish Movement Labs. A year later, in the fall of 2023, we secured $3.4 million in pre-seed funding to kickstart our vision. Fast forward to April 2024, and we've just closed a $38 Million Series A round. Our journey isn't just about reshaping the future of technology and finance with a next-gen coding language, it’s about the realities of navigating life as Gen Z starting from scratch. 

The Gen Z advantage in a fast-moving space