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Daniel Burka
Director of Product and Design at Resolve To Save Lives
London, England
Overview
Daniel Burka is currently the Director of Product and Design at Resolve to Save Lives, a not-for-profit organization, with previous roles at Google Ventures as a Design Partner and Design Lead. He has co-founded companies like silverorange and Milk Inc., showcasing a strong entrepreneurial spirit and leadership in the design and tech industry.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Elyce, Mahima, and I co-founded the non-profit Hard Problems to help tech people to find fulfilling work on the world's hardest problems — challenges like public health, climate change, and good government.
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.
Resolve to Save Lives is a health organization that aims to save lives from cardiovascular disease and prevent epidemics.
Raised $215,000,000.00 from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Co-founder and advisor
2006
Co-founder and designer
1999 - 2006
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.
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.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
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.
Director of Design
2009 - 2011
TinySpeck built a game called Glitch and then pivoted to become Slack, the popular communications platform.
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.
Digg operates a website that enables its users to find, read, and share the most interesting and talked about stories on the internet.
Raised $49,000,000.00 from White Star Capital, Residence Ventures, Gannett, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock, Omidyar Network and Highland Capital Partners.
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.
Pownce is a social network that enables users to send music, photos, messages, links, events, and other files of up to 250mb to friends.