Ribbit Capital's Micky Malka Talks Bitcoin's Slow Road to Mainstream
Two years ago, the entrepreneurs in bitcoin were inexperienced and those investing in the space were merely a collection of friends, according to Meyer "Micky" Malka. Flash forward to today and the Bitcoin Foundation board member and founder of VC firm Ribbit Capital can find more than a few reasons to be optimistic about the future of bitcoin, even in the face of continued price declines, issues in the mining community and questions about the commercial viability of bitcoin technology. Before it can propel itself forward to new highs, however, Malka believes bitcoin must first account for....
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Meyer 'Micky' Malka - a director at the Bitcoin Foundation - has been a financial industry entrepreneur since the age of 18, first in his native Venezuela and later in Europe and the US, where he most recently founded mobile payments company Lemon Inc., now part of LifeLock. Also founder of Ribbit Capital, Malka says he wants to use the firm "as an agent for change in the ossified and slow-to-change financial services category." Besides investing in five companies in the space, Ribbit is investing directly in bitcoin - reportedly, along with Social+Capital Partnership, controlling 5% of....
Some of Silicon Valley's most innovative investors gathered at CoinSummit San Francisco to discuss where the smart money will go next in the digital currency space, including Meyer "Micky" Malka, founder of Ribbit Capital. Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Hemant Taneja, a partner at General Catalyst Partners; and Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC. Hemant Taneja, Jeremy Liew, Meyer "Micky" Malka and Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, The venture capitalists assembled for CoinSummit's Tuesday, 25th March, panel on investment....
A gathering of A-list entrepreneurs, investors and Bay Area politicians -- Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit -- is set to tackle emerging issues in technology and business ... including the future potential of Bitcoin. Taking over the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay on June 16 and 17, the conference roster reads like a who's who of the tech community, including the head of mergers and acquisitions at Google, CTO of PayPal, California's lieutenant governor and the startup-friendly mayor of San Francisco. It's particularly notable, then, that a highlight of the conference is a....
Elizabeth Ploshay and Micky Malka have been elected to the board of the Bitcoin Foundation. Ploshay, manager of communications at Bitcoin Magazine, received 90 votes, which equates to 25.1% of all the votes cast for the individual seat. Serial entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist Malka received 26 (72.2%) of the votes for the industry seat. Ploshay and Malka join the likes of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles and BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem on the board. Jon Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, said: "We welcome our new board directors and the wealth of additional....
Victor Pascucci, the head of corporate development at USAA, says blockchain technology is game changer, and that he has not seen many technologies that meet this description during his nearly 20 years in the VC sector. Thus, Pascucci has stated his organization is developing a thesis on the application of the blockchain. So far, the most involved the USAA has been in the blockchain was when it participated in Coinbase’s $75m Series C funding round in early 2015. This move, according to Pascucci, was a part of USAA’s policy of keeping pace with emerging technologies. Following this policy,....