Vinny Lingham
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Rumi.ai
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Vinny Lingham is a seed investor at Rumi.ai in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Vinny Lingham invests in
Stages Vinny Lingham invests in
Countries Vinny Lingham invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$5.6M
- Angel
- $125k–$500k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 10 (26%)
- Cryptocurrency 8 (21%)
- Internet 7 (18%)
- FinTech 6 (15%)
- Software 6 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (54%)
- Angel 3 (8%)
- Funding Round 3 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Series A 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 18 (46%)
- South Africa 3 (8%)
- United Kingdom 3 (8%)
- Canada 2 (5%)
- Latvia 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Shield USDT
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Shield is a user security automation for web 3 platforms. Their bot acts as a firewall to allow telegram and Discord communities to expand securely. They offer both standard and unique platforms. They sell a variety of goods, including community security systems. | $5M / Seed / Mar 25, 2025 | |
Glif
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Glif builts and maintains essential Filecoin apps. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 06, 2024 | |
Afterparty
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Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 19, 2023 | |
Collectibles.com
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Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector. | $5M / Seed / Jun 13, 2023 | |
TipLink
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TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send. | $6M / Seed / Feb 21, 2023 | |
Spexi
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Spexi is the first-of-its-kind FLY TO EARN network enabling drone pilots to earn rewards for flying and capturing aerial imagery at scale.Spexi also enables organizations to quickly and easily access high-resolution aerial imagery to better prepare for disasters, enable smart cities, remotely inspect infrastructure, monitor natural resources, andso much more without needing to own drones or hire pilots. | $5.5M / Seed / Oct 04, 2022 | |
Sweatcoin
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Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement. | $13M / Jul 28, 2022 | |
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Sweatcoin
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Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement. | $13M / Initial Coin Offering / Jul 28, 2022 | |
Decent Labs
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Decent develops products that are resistant to censorship, fraud, and human error. Using blockchain technology, it collaborates with forward-thinking businesses to create solutions that were not previously possible. It enables new technical standards in crypto by providing useful tools that appeal to both new and experienced developers. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 20, 2022 | |
Hedge
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Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains. | $3.7M / Seed / Apr 19, 2022 | |
| See all 39 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Rumi.ai
Waitroom is a video communication platform that allows people to share their thoughts and interact with others in a live video environment.
Rumi.ai Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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David Saxton
Head of Operations and BD
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Vinny Lingham
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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FAQ
What does Vinny Lingham invest in?
Vinny Lingham invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Vinny Lingham's check size?
Vinny Lingham typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$5.6M at Seed and $125k–$500k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vinny Lingham participates in.
When did Vinny Lingham last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vinny Lingham closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 39 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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