David Hankla

David Hankla is a serial entrepreneur, investor, inventor, and start-up advisor with 15 years of experience and 6 companies to his name to date. David previously served at a founder and producer of AGA Entertainment, a founder and CMO of Black Emoji, LLC, and was a founding partner in HH Ventures, a private VC.

Most recently he served as the CEO and Founder of Backpack Enterprises, LLC, a company that helped students in need afford school through aggregation and progressive matching of private financial aid, which recently sold after connecting students to over $3.2 million in funding during testing alone.

David currently serves as an advisor to mllnnl, JSwipe, Haystack, Permitting Partners, and Warmon Kielson Real Estate, and works as a board member for the Christine Macken Memorial Fund, which raises money for research into Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy. A triple major graduate of Duke University, David first began working at Cosmopolitan Magazine as a movie critic at the age of 12 and built his first business by the age of 16. He is a designer and co-owner of the AIDI video streaming interactivity patent and is proud to serve as an advisor to FanWide.