Vinny Lingham

Vinny Lingham is best known as co-founder and CEO of Civic.com a digital identity startup based in Silicon Valley. Before Civic, Vinny was co-founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card company backed by Google and sold to First Data. Lingham is a major advocate for Bitcoin, and Gyft was one of the early adopters amongst the businesses to accept Bitcoin as payment. He was also founder and CEO of Yola, Inc. (SynthaSite), a start-up that provides free website building, publishing, and hosting, and a co-founder of SiliconCape.com, an NGO based in South Africa that serves to turn Cape Town into a technology hub.