Rafal is a UofT EngSci alumni who has spent his entire post-university career on entrepreneurship. After graduating, he founded an edtech company whose language learning apps won multiple awards and resulted in over 10 million hours of learning from students around the world (...but also eventually imploded). He founded a SaaS fundraising company (...but sold it for scraps when he realized it wasn't what he wanted for the world), and is currently focused on growing Bloom Ventures, a bootstrapped cooperative startup studio in Toronto that is trying to change the startup creation formula. He has substantial experience in software development, user-experience design and early-stage startup development.