Danny Robinson
Founder / Chairman of the Board
Danny has been starting and advising early stage technology companies for over 15 years. In this time, he has closed more than $100M over 9 rounds of venture capital financing. Prior to co-founding Strutta, Danny was co-founder and Chairman of Peerflix, an online P2P DVD trading company, which was later sold to Live Universe. In 1998, Danny co-founded his first Internet company Spinway, Inc., a pioneer technology company that developed ecommerce and private-label ISP solutions for leading brick and mortar retailers. Under his stewardship, Spinway grew to 8 million registered members in 11 months and was later sold to United Online (NetZero), which is still in operation today.
Presently, Danny is Founder and Managing Director of Bootup Labs, a hybrid startup accelerator and seed fund in Vancouver, BC that helps founders and companies go "from concept to proof." As an accomplished entrepreneur, Danny works hard to promote Vancouver as the tech center he believes it can be by connecting local entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley-based VCs, co-organizing the popular networking series, Launch Party Vancouver, speaking at local and international tech events and serving on the Science World Equity Committee. Danny is a member of the Board of Directors for Strutta, Suite101, and the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society.