Vinny Lingham

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device.
He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to develop websites.
Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006.
He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
16
Vinny Lingham has made 16 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 19, 2015, when Airdog raised $2.49M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Jul 28, 2022 Sweatcoin Series Unknown $13M Apps Detail
Apr 19, 2022 Hedge Seed $3.70M Blockchain Detail
Feb 15, 2022 Dequency Seed $4.50M Blockchain Detail
Dec 21, 2021 RNDR Token Initial Coin Offering $30M Blockchain Detail
Oct 26, 2021 Minima Series A $6.50M Blockchain Detail
Oct 19, 2021 Concept Art House Series A $25M Blockchain Detail
Jul 29, 2021 Secured Finance Seed $4M Blockchain Detail
Jun 8, 2021 Flare Network Series Unknown $11.30M Blockchain Detail
Feb 2, 2021 Huddle 01 Grant $1.80M Blockchain Detail
Jul 12, 2018 Stronghold Seed $3.30M Blockchain Detail
Dec 15, 2017 Blockfolio Seed $3.15M Bitcoin Detail
May 3, 2017 Swiftly Series Unknown $2.50M Analytics Detail
Mar 9, 2016 Chronicled Seed $3.42M Blockchain Detail
Mar 19, 2015 Airdog Seed $2.49M Drones Detail
Jan 20, 2015 Trustatom Pre-seed $100K Bitcoin Detail
Jul 1, 2014 Swiftly Seed $550K Analytics Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
7
Vinny Lingham has 7 current jobs including Crypto Advisor at Vault12 , General Partner at Multicoin Capital and Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Civic .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Vault12 Crypto Advisor Jan 1, 2018 Detail
Multicoin Capital General Partner Dec 1, 2017 Detail
Civic Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer Jan 1, 2016 Detail
Propy ICO Advisor Detail
ChromaWay Member of the Board of Advisors Detail
Trixta Advisor Detail
Credit Hydra Advisor Detail