Daniel Burka

Co-Founder

London, England, United Kingdom27 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founder of impactful non-profit addressing global challenges.
Extensive experience in product design and leadership roles.
Proven track record in founding and advising startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and Technology Product Leader with a focus on design and innovation.

Contact

Skills

Other Skills

IllustrationSocial MediaUser InterfaceUser Experience DesignUser ExperienceUser Interface DesignInformation ArchitectureMobile ApplicationsStart-upsPublic SpeakingMobile DevicesScalabilityWeb DevelopmentOnline AdvertisingE-commerce

About

I am the co-founder of Hard Problems. We are a non-profit that helps tech people to work on the hard problems that matter in the world: problems like public health, climate change, and good government. I also founded the Simple.org and Healthicons.org open source projects.

Experience

Hard problems

Co-Founder

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Shoreditch, England, United Kingdom · On-site

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.

Loop

Board Member

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · India · Remote

I am an early investor and on the board of the Indian healthcare startup Loop.

Resolve to save lives

Director of Product and Design

Feb 2018 – Aug 2025 · 7 yrs 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

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

Google ventures

2 roles

Design Partner

Promoted

Dec 2012 – Feb 2018 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, CA

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

Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 · 8 mos · Mountain View, CA

Ran the mobile team on a core Google product.

Milk inc.

Co-founder

Mar 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr

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

Director of Design

Oct 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

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

Pownce

Creative Director and Co-founder

Mar 2007 – Nov 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

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.

Silverorange

2 roles

Co-founder and advisor

Promoted

Jun 2006 – Present · 19 yrs 9 mos · Prince Edward Island, Canada

Co-founder and designer

Jan 1999 – Jun 2006 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Prince Edward Island, Canada

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.