Zoë Barry is a serial entrepreneur, Mentor in Residence with Techstars, and angel investor. Currently, Zoë is the Founder and CEO of Zingeroo, her second venture-backed tech startup. Zingeroo makes stock trading competitive, social, and educational and has raised $11.5M to date. The Zingeroo trading app is available for download in the iOS store.

Zoë began her career on Wall Street, working for the hedge fund Dawson Capital. She was inspired to found her first company in 2012, ZappRx, when a family member was diagnosed with a severe condition that required specialized therapy. ZappRx was best described as the “Amazon Prime for $100K/year specialty medication.” As a sole- founder, Barry raised over $42M for ZappRx, before the company was acquired by Allscripts, in June of 2019.

When she isn’t busy building her company, Zoë enjoys mentoring first-time founders. She has invested in over 20 startups to-date. Zoë was named as one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30, in 2015; Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40, in 2015; and Medtech Boston’s 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators, in 2016. In her “spare time”, Zoë is an amateur race car driver and avid skier.

In this episode of How To Trade It, Zoe talks about the switch to more transparent trading for the sake of sharing data with other traders. You don’t want to miss it!

Zoe's introduction. 0:12
How does Zingaroo bring data to retail traders? 2:05
Is it common for investors to talk about their wins and losses? 6:28
What types of instruments are able to be traded on the platform? 10:30
What other resources and benefits do you offer for traders? 12:04
Retail investors don’t have their finger on the pulse. 13:48
What’s the biggest problem with the current market. 18:00
How did you get started with your platform? 20:50
Why it’s a great time to be launching a platform. 24:50

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Connect with Zoe Barry

Website: https://zingeroo.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZoeBarryCEO
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoebarry/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoebarr

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Competitive, Social Trading With Zoe Barry and Zingeroo