Micky Malka

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.

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., 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. Malka then served as the interim Chief Executive Officer for OpenBank S.A., an online bank in Spain and Germany.

In 2003, he co-founded Banco Lemon which was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank.

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.

In May 2011, Malka co-founded Banco Bracce, a Brazilian financial banking institution specializing in lending for mid-sized companies in Brazil.

Through Ribbit, Malka has made investments in several financial services and bitcoin companies, including Coinbase, BTCJam, CreditKarma, ContaAzul, Comparaonline.com, borro, Capital Access Network and Fuze Network.

Malka graduated from Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela in 1996 with a degree in economics. He also serves on the boards of directors of Mercado Libre and Credit Karma, He was until April 2014 on the board of Wonga, a British payday lender.