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Vinny Lingham

Vinny Lingham

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The South African internet entrepreneur is the co-founder and CEO of Civic, an identity protection and management startup.

He has two other companies, incuBeta and Click2Customers, which provide online marketing services and search engine marketing software respectively.

These two companies, founded in 2003 are located in several cities including Cape Town, London and Los Angeles. The annual revenue of Click2Customer is estimated to be about $100 million.

The tech tycoon is also the founder and CEO of other companies including Gyft and Yola Inc., Lingham, as well as, SiliconCape, a South-African based NGO that aims at making Cape Town a technology hub.