ICO expert voice – Vinny Lingham, co-founder and CEO of Civic, $33M ICO
Vinny Lingham is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder and CEO at Civic. He is also a general partner at Multicoin Capital, a venture-style fund that invests in liquid crypto-assets, co-founder, and limited partner at Newtown Partners, a blockchain investment and advisory services company, and a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation.
Vinny previously founded numerous companies such as the digital gift card platform, Gyft, which was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2014, Yola, and incuBeta. He is also a shark on the popular TV show Shark Tank South Africa.
Civic conducted a "token sale" in June 2017 and successfully raised $33 million USD. Civic's visionary blockchain identity-verification technology allows consumers to authorize the use of their identities in real time, and the mission is to provide every person on Earth with a digital identity that they can use to interact privately and...