Dan Robichaud aka Daniel Robichaud

Daniel was born in 1976 in Drummondville, Quebec, a small French Canadian town. He was born at about the same time the Olympics landed in Montreal. Daniel learned the ins and outs of running a business by watching his hard working parents operate a dry cleaning business his grandfather founded in 1948.
Daniel launched his first business at the age of 10. His landscaping business was quite profitable, even after he paid his employees he was still able to clear $20 per hour for himself (which in those days was quite a win).
Ironically at the age of 12 he received a letter from the lawyer of a local landscaping company accusing him of stealing his clients and forced him to stop doing business on the grounds that he had no valid tax number.
Needless to say, his business lessons started early.

He graduated high school at Claretain College where he spent 5 years sleeping in a 200 people dormitory.
In 1997 he earned a 3-year college degree in Art & Technology of Media from Jonquiere College.
In 1999 he graduated from Montreal’s HEC University.

That entrepreneurial blood running through his veins he decided to partner with three well-established and well-known radio hosts and buy his very own radio station.
Since no one wanted to get up at 5AM he was the perfect fit as the ‘morning man’.
Collectively they re-built the radio station into something that still operates today and Daniel continues to be a proud shareholder.

In his early twenty’s he wanted to work in a ‘big city’ so he went off to the closest metropolis of Montreal and subsequently hosted three different radio shows at different radio stations.
He founded Radioactif.com, an innovative radio show launched in 2000 – featuring new initiatives like webcams, live chat, and podcasting.
Moving forward, he leveraged the name of his radio show, RadioActif.com, to launch his own ISP in 2001. By 2003, according to Mediametrix stats, RadioActif.com was listed as one of the top 15 most visited French websites in Canada and it remains the largest independent French Internet Service Provider nationally.
Hosting the morning show from 5AM to 10AM, running a business from 10AM to 7PM and going to business school at night was his new reality.
The success of his website business caused Corus Entertainment to take notice, they reached out to him and Dan became Corus Entertainment’s New Media Director.
His new job was creating online media portals. He created the vision for each property and then fulfilled the projects by outsourcing the work to his own company.
As the company continued to grow successfully, large organizations started hiring them to create their web presence, namely the Montreal Canadians Hockey Team.

In 2006, Dan sold the web design company to the media division of a Fortune Global 500®.
He learned a key lesson from the service industry; the daily grinding away and chasing specific projects all with different expectations and needs was not what he wanted to do forever.
He started to focus on recurring revenue models. Much more profitable, he thought.
StreamTheWorld.com was going to be his next start up. STW provides streaming technology and services to online broadcasters. The company streams over 2000 radio and television stations in 25 countries. It currently teams up with some with North America’s biggest broadcasters like CBS to enhance their online presence and increase revenues.
The company was sold in 2010 to a California based company and the core team is still in Montreal. Dan was also involved in Mobilito, Têtes à Claques’ and Virtual Paper to name a few.

In 2008 he founded Neotech Capital a business incubator with a model similar to Y-Combinator or TechStars.
He invests in promising entrepreneurs as an angel investor and helps them build successful businesses.
He is a board member of a Nonprofit Organization called Society for Arts and Technology.
Leveraging more than 12 years of experience in online strategy, mobile development and business start-ups, Dan has become a recognized leader in Quebec’s investment and technology industry.
He is a Limited Partner in 2 Montreal based funds as well as a member and advisor for Anges Quebec.
Dan likes snowboarding, surfing, wine tasting with friends, travelling around the planet and meeting incredible people.