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Meyer "Micky" Malka is a technology and financial services entrepreneur. He is founder and general partner of Ribbit Capital, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ribbit Capital Closes $100M Venture Capital Fund; Launches Inaugural Fund with Four Initial Investments )〕 ==Career== In 1993, at the age of 19, Malka co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and U.S. markets, where he served as Chief operating officer. In 1998, Malka developed the online brokerage Patagon.com, Inc.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bling Nation Launches Community Payment Network for Local, Regional Financial Institutions )〕 which became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet-based financial services portal and dealer until its acquisition in March 2000 by the Spanish bank Banco Santander for over $700 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Things Could Get Nasty On The Net )〕 Malka then served as the interim Chief Executive Officer for OpenBank S.A., an online bank in Spain and Germany.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Can Capital Advisory Board )〕 In 2003, he co-founded Banco Lemon which was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MERCADOLIBRE INC )〕 After moving to San Francisco in 2007, in July 2008, Malka co-founded and served as co-Chief Executive Officer of Bling Nation Ltd., a Palo Alto-based mobile payments company until July 2011 when it evolved into Lemon Inc.〔 Lemon was acquired by LifeLock for $50 million in December 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leading Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLock Acquires Mobile Wallet Innovator Lemon, Inc. )〕 In May 2011, Malka co-founded Banco Bracce, a Brazilian financial banking institution specializing in lending for mid-sized companies in Brazil.〔 In 2012, Malka founded Ribbit Capital, a venture capital firm that targets early-stage companies that use technology to innovate financial services worldwide. Malka raised Ribbit’s inaugural $100 million fund in 2012. Investors include Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Silicon Valley Bank and various institutional investors and individuals such as Social+Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya and PayPal President David Marcus.〔 Through Ribbit, Malka has made investments in several financial services and bitcoin companies, including Coinbase, BTCJam,〔 Funding Circle,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Funding Circle secures Series C led by Accel )〕 CreditKarma,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Credit Karma Secures $30 Million in Series B Funding )〕 ContaAzul,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ContaAzul Raises Series B Funding )〕 Comparaonline.com,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ComparaOnline Raises $11 Million in Series B Funding )〕 borro,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=borro Secures $26M in Funding to Fuel Global Growth )〕 Capital Access Network〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Capital Access Network Announces Advisory Board for Launch of Online Lending Platform CapTap )〕 and Fuze Network.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fuze Network, A Payments Company Focused On The Under-Banked, Raises $2.5 Million Series A )〕 Malka graduated from Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela in 1996 with a degree in economics.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meyer Malka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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