David Orban

Chief Executive Officer

2023 - Current

Actioneer is an AI-powered startup coaching and data-driven investor platform. It overcomes the lack of scalability and accessibility of traditional coaching, as well as the absence of reliable early-stage indicators for investors. Actioneer seeks to make high-quality advice and mentorship affordable and accessible to founders globally, helping unlock entrepreneurship and enable more people to find solutions, create jobs/wealth, and design exciting, satisfying lives.

Managing Advisor

2021

Beyond Enterprizes offers strategic and technical leadership, advisory, and support capabilities to projects in all stages of blockchain and new technology implementation and development.

Founder & Managing Partner

2015

Network Society Ventures is a global venture firm, seeking to deliver superior returns by capitalizing disruptive technology-based companies that are leading the transformation from the post-industrial age to the Network Society. Network Society Ventures is focused on making investments in the sectors that are driven by the Eight Pillars of Change promulgated by the Network Society Manifesto: Energy, Manufacturing, Food, Health, Learning, Finance, Security, Policymaking.

Trustee

2014

A set of simultaneous technologies is growing exponentially, with the common feature of being decentralized, and organized in a network. This contrasts with the centralized and hierarchical organization of today’s traditional society and its basic functions. The shift from the old to the new structure will subject the Nation State to an unprecedented pressure. The Network Society project creates a vision and analytical tools to allow individuals, enterprises and the society at large to deal positively with this unstoppable change.

Faculty & Advisor

2009

Singularity University, based on the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.), and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.

Advisor

2020

The Emma Group is a Venture Studio creating high-growth startups in the space of remote work.

Advisor

2020

Member of the Board of Directors

2018 - 2020

The Singularity Group AG aims to make the long-term theme of "Singularity"​ investable. The Singularity is the moment when machines will exceed human intelligence. On the path to Singularity, exponential progress will result in unprecedented rates of change to human civilization and the economy. For successful investors, it is essential to anticipate the effects of Singularity on the world and allocate capital accordingly. The team has identified twelve "Singularity Sectors"​ (including Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Robotics, Neuroscience) that are expected to experience exponential change. The Singularity Group AG was founded in Zug (Switzerland) by a team of three investment professionals with a total of 50 years of experience in asset management, market research, business development, and successful entrepreneurship.

Founder

2014

Dotwords executes high quality translation and localization of documents, websites, apps, videos, and more. Promotes translation between all languages, defending linguistic diversity. Using modern project management and translation memory tools it creates affordable and reliable workflows for the benefit of its clients in all industries.

Founder

2014

Futuroid analyses and implements winning strategies for itself and its clients to understand exponentially changing technologies, the power of networks, distributed and decentralized organizations, and their impact on the lives of individuals, enterprises, and society at large.

Mentor

2011

The Thiel Fellowship brings together some of the world’s most creative and motivated young people, and helps them bring their most ambitious ideas and projects to life. Thiel Fellows are given a no-strings-attached grant of $100,000 to skip college and focus on their work, their research, and their self-education. They are mentored by our network of visionary thinkers, investors, scientists, and entrepreneurs, who provide guidance and business connections that can’t be replicated in any classroom.