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Daniel Burka

Director of product and design at the not-for-profit Resolve to Save Lives

London, England

Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Social Media
User Interface
User Experience Design
User Experience
User Interface Design
Information Architecture
Mobile Applications
Start-ups
Public Speaking
Mobile Devices
Scalability
Web Development
Online Advertising
E-commerce
Digital Media
Entrepreneurship
Entertainment
Creative Direction
HTML 5
User Research

Education

Investments

Loop Health

Seed

Total Funding: $39M

Fflick

Angel

Total Funding:

Work Experience

Resolve To Save Lives

2018

  • Director of Product and Design

    2018

    Director of product and design at Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies. My primary project is Simple.

silverorange

1999

  • Co-founder

    1999

    Silverorange is a boutique web agency that works on wide variety of challenges around the world. Clients include Mozilla, Hippo Education, EM:RAP, TinEye, CourseHost, and Duolingo.

Google Ventures

2012 - 2018

  • Design Partner

    2012 - 2018

    Daniel works with GV's wide array of portfolio companies on their design and product challenges — everything from brand to product to strategy.

  • Design Lead

    2012 - 2012

    Ran the mobile team on a core Google product.

Milk Inc.

2011 - 2012

  • Co-founder

    2011 - 2012

    Milk was a small start-up, co-founded with Kevin Rose. The team built a mobile product called Oink and had another product in the pipleline when the company was acquired by Google.

Tiny Speck

2009 - 2011

  • Director of Design

    2009 - 2011

    TinySpeck built a game called Glitch and then pivoted to become Slack, the popular communications platform.

digg.com

2005 - 2009

  • Creative Director

    2005 - 2009

    Digg is a popular news aggregation service and a pioneer in social networking, founded by Kevin Rose. Daniel joined when the team was four people.

pownce

2007 - 2008

  • Creative Director and Co-founder

    2007 - 2008

    Pownce was a pioneer social network co-founded by Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose, and Leah Culver. Daniel led design and product. The team was acquired by SixApart.