Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Michael Serbinis is a tech executive who has been involved with the startup & growth of four Internet companies: Kobo, Critical Path, DocSpace and Zip2.
Mike is currently the founder and CEO at Kobo, a global leader in eReading founded in Dec 2009, spun out of Canadian bookseller Indigo. Kobo, sold to Japanese Internet giant Rakuten for $315M, serves millions of readers in over 190 countries worldwide. Only 3 years old today, Kobo is fast on track to becoming a billion dollar company under Mike's leadership.
Prior to Kobo, Mike developed routing technology at Microsoft, search engine technology at Zip2 (sold to Altavista for $300M), founded and sold DocSpace for $568M in 2000 and worked tirelessly to turnaround Critical Path – a global provider of messaging services who ran one-third of the world's email.
Mike is currently a member of the Founder's Board at Round 13 Capital, Board of Trustees at the Ontario Science Centre and is a member of YPO. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Queens University and a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering from the University of Toronto. And once upon a time, Mike designed a high temperature superconductor propulsion system that won Gold at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, and numerous other awards, sponsorships and jobs from Nasa, Rockwell Aerospace and Intel.