Vinny Lingham

Vinny Lingham is a South African Internet entrepreneur who is currently the co-founder & CEO of Civic Technologies, a blockchain-based decentralized identity management platform.

As a serial entrepreneur, he co-founded:
 * Gyft – a mobile gift card company, backed by Google Ventures that was sold to First Data Corporation in 2014
 * Yola, Inc. (formerly known as SynthaSite), a San Francisco-based Web 2.0 start-up that provides free website building, publishing and hosting services
 * Global search marketing firm incuBeta and its subsidiary Clicks2Customers
 * He is also the co-founder of SiliconCape.com, an NGO based in South Africa that aims to turn Cape Town into a technology hub

Vinny previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq-listed companies ValueClick and Yahoo.

Vinny is a member of the global, high-impact, entrepreneur organizations Endeavour and YPO.

He appeared as an investor on Dragon’s Den South Africa season 1 (2015) and Shark Tank South Africa season 1 (2017).

Vinny lives in San Francisco.