
Dan Burcaw
Co-Founder & CEO at Nami ML
Dan has founded companies on the forefront of profound technology waves: open source software, the smartphone, and cloud computing. He describes himself first as a serial entrepreneur; a repeat startup founder and CEO. His startups have built or powered world renowned products used by millions of people around the world.
The World’s First Machine Learning Dataset Built to Accelerate Mobile Revenue. More than 1 Billion data points collected.
- Machine Learning
- Mobile App Revenue
- Technology
- 📍Denver, CO
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Let's talk about
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Subscription Economy - App Economy
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Data-Driven Marketing, Mobile Marketing, App Development
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AI/ML
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Startups / Entrepreneurship - Leadership
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
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Dan has founded companies on the forefront of profound technology waves: open source software, the smartphone, and cloud computing. He describes himself first as a serial entrepreneur; a repeat startup founder and CEO. His startups have built or powered world renowned products used by millions of people around the world. Dan's career has also been shaped by wisdom attained from tenures at two technology giants: Apple and Oracle. After two decades of entrepreneurship, Dan took a year-long sabbatical to innovate himself. This startup-like effort to elevate all aspects of his performance is the foundation for his next entrepreneurial endeavors. He's now ready for the next wave.
At age 17, Dan co-founded with Kai Staats his first company: Terra Soft Solutions. Terra Soft developed Yellow Dog Linux, the premier version of Linux built for Apple's Macintosh and later Sony's PLAYSTATION3. After submitting his resume to hundreds of companies, Dan found little interest in a his unconventional skillset. He turned his attention toApple. However, most the job openings for seasoned technical positions he felt unqualified for. Living back at home with his parents and down to his last $300 dollars, he needed a job. Finally, in September 2004 he was hired as a part-time specialist at his local Apple Retail store.
Sights set on the next wave, Dan co-founded Nami ML, company #4, with his Push IO co-founder Joe Pezzillo. According to AppAnnie, fewer than 3000 are making more than US$1,000,000 a year from paid downloads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. This reality has given rise to a whole ecosystem of mobile marketing tools to help app publishers focus on growing audience, not creating a sustainable business. Dan and Joe founded Nami because the marketing tools built for the mobile industry’s growth era don’t help app developers trying to succeed in the subscription era
Nami strives to be the easiest, best way to build and grow sustainable, mobile-first businesses.

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Dan Burcaw
Co-Founder & CEO at Nami ML
- Machine Learning
- Mobile App Revenue
- Technology
- 📍Denver, CO
Dan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four companies each on the forefront of a major technology wave: open source software, the smartphone, cloud computing, and now machine learning.
His career has never had a dull moment. At age 17, we wrote software that ended up on the US Navy nuclear submarine fleet. Then, he founded and exited two companies in the mobile space which built and powered mobile applications for major professional sports leagues, news broadcasters, and airlines.
Now, leads Nami ML, a company focused on helping app developers start and grow mobile subscription businesses.
Notably, Nami has assembled the world’s first machine learning dataset designed to accelerate subscription revenue. With over 1 Billion data points collected, Nami’s algorithm is trained to find and convert likely subscriptions.
read more
Let's talk about
-
Subscription Economy - App Economy
-
Data-Driven Marketing, Mobile Marketing, App Development
-
AI/ML
-
Startups / Entrepreneurship - Leadership
-
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
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Dan has founded companies on the forefront of profound technology waves: open source software, the smartphone, and cloud computing. He describes himself first as a serial entrepreneur; a repeat startup founder and CEO. His startups have built or powered world renowned products used by millions of people around the world. Dan's career has also been shaped by wisdom attained from tenures at two technology giants: Apple and Oracle. After two decades of entrepreneurship, Dan took a year-long sabbatical to innovate himself. This startup-like effort to elevate all aspects of his performance is the foundation for his next entrepreneurial endeavors. He's now ready for the next wave.
At age 17, Dan co-founded with Kai Staats his first company: Terra Soft Solutions. Terra Soft developed Yellow Dog Linux, the premier version of Linux built for Apple's Macintosh and later Sony's PLAYSTATION3. After submitting his resume to hundreds of companies, Dan found little interest in a his unconventional skillset. He turned his attention toApple. However, most the job openings for seasoned technical positions he felt unqualified for. Living back at home with his parents and down to his last $300 dollars, he needed a job. Finally, in September 2004 he was hired as a part-time specialist at his local Apple Retail store.
Sights set on the next wave, Dan co-founded Nami ML, company #4, with his Push IO co-founder Joe Pezzillo. According to AppAnnie, fewer than 3000 are making more than US$1,000,000 a year from paid downloads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. This reality has given rise to a whole ecosystem of mobile marketing tools to help app publishers focus on growing audience, not creating a sustainable business. Dan and Joe founded Nami because the marketing tools built for the mobile industry’s growth era don’t help app developers trying to succeed in the subscription era
Nami strives to be the easiest, best way to build and grow sustainable, mobile-first businesses.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Dan Burcaw
Co-Founder & CEO at Nami ML
- 📍Denver, CO
- Machine Learning
- Technology
Dan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four companies each on the forefront of a major technology wave: open source software, the smartphone, cloud computing, and now machine learning.
His career has never had a dull moment. At age 17, we wrote software that ended up on the US Navy nuclear submarine fleet. Then, he founded and exited two companies in the mobile space which built and powered mobile applications for major professional sports leagues, news broadcasters, and airlines.
Now, leads Nami ML, a company focused on helping app developers start and grow mobile subscription businesses.
Notably, Nami has assembled the world’s first machine learning dataset designed to accelerate subscription revenue. With over 1 Billion data points collected, Nami’s algorithm is trained to find and convert likely subscriptions.
read more
Let's talk about
-
Subscription Economy - App Economy
-
Data-Driven Marketing, Mobile Marketing, App Development
-
AI/ML
-
Startups / Entrepreneurship - Leadership
-
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
__
Dan has founded companies on the forefront of profound technology waves: open source software, the smartphone, and cloud computing. He describes himself first as a serial entrepreneur; a repeat startup founder and CEO. His startups have built or powered world renowned products used by millions of people around the world. Dan's career has also been shaped by wisdom attained from tenures at two technology giants: Apple and Oracle. After two decades of entrepreneurship, Dan took a year-long sabbatical to innovate himself. This startup-like effort to elevate all aspects of his performance is the foundation for his next entrepreneurial endeavors. He's now ready for the next wave.
At age 17, Dan co-founded with Kai Staats his first company: Terra Soft Solutions. Terra Soft developed Yellow Dog Linux, the premier version of Linux built for Apple's Macintosh and later Sony's PLAYSTATION3. After submitting his resume to hundreds of companies, Dan found little interest in a his unconventional skillset. He turned his attention toApple. However, most the job openings for seasoned technical positions he felt unqualified for. Living back at home with his parents and down to his last $300 dollars, he needed a job. Finally, in September 2004 he was hired as a part-time specialist at his local Apple Retail store.
Sights set on the next wave, Dan co-founded Nami ML, company #4, with his Push IO co-founder Joe Pezzillo. According to AppAnnie, fewer than 3000 are making more than US$1,000,000 a year from paid downloads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. This reality has given rise to a whole ecosystem of mobile marketing tools to help app publishers focus on growing audience, not creating a sustainable business. Dan and Joe founded Nami because the marketing tools built for the mobile industry’s growth era don’t help app developers trying to succeed in the subscription era
Nami strives to be the easiest, best way to build and grow sustainable, mobile-first businesses.
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Timeline
July 2018 - Present
Nami ML
Co-Founder & CEO
Nami ML is a complete toolkit helping mobile app developers accelerate their subscription businesses at each stage of their product’s journey from initial launch to reaching their full revenue potential.
With Nami, customers get to market and scale faster requiring fewer development cycles, and employ state-of-the-art machine learning to maximize and optimize results.
Jan 2014 - Mar 2016
Oracle
Following the acquisition of Push IO (see below) by Oracle, Dan became the product leader responsible for integrating the Push IO team and technology into the Oracle. Notably, Dan and his team shipped seven releases of the Oracle Marketing Cloud’s mobile marketing offering built atop the Push IO engine.
Jun 2008 - July 2014
Double Encore
Founder, CEO, Chairman
On the eve of the App Store launch in 2008, Dan founded Double Encore which I grew into a top-tier mobile development agency. Double Encore developed apps for well known brands including: JetBlue, March Madness Live, NBA, PGA TOUR, and Major League Soccer just to name a few. In July 2014, Double Encore was acquired by WPP (NYSE: WPP) and is now in the market as Wunderman Thompson Apps.
Apr 2009 - Jan 2014
Push IO
Co-Founder & CEO
Push IO is an enterprise class push notification provider. We are fortunate to serve incredible customers such as CNN, NFL, FOX, and many more. We have delivered billions of notifications to hundreds of millions of devices. In January 2014, Push IO was acquired by Oracle.
Ask me
You wrote code that ended up on a submarine when you were 17? What’s the story there? |
You’ve been around the Apple world for a long time... do you have any good Apple or Steve Jobs stories? |
You’ve been part of the app economy from the start. How has it changed from 2008 to now? |
You’ve worked on some high profile products over the years. Do you have a favorite? |
Tell me what you’re working on at your current venture, Nami ML? |
What challenges do subscription apps face that are new and different? |
I’ve heard that Machine Learning requires a lot of data collection. What’s the implication on user privacy? |
You talk about “On-Device” Machine Learning. Can you talk tell me more about what that means? |
What have been some of the major struggles you’ve faced in your entrepreneurial journey? |
You’ve had a number of successful exits… what’s been the secret to your success? |
What advice do you have for first time founders? |
What are some things you like to do in your free time? |