Michael Serbinis

Michael Serbinis is a Canadian entrepreneur, engineer and angel investor based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

While a student, Serbinis worked for Microsoft on advanced routing algorithms.

He later helped found the cloud-based document storage network company DocSpace.

In 2001, Serbinis was appointed Chief Technology Officer of Critical Path.

In December 2009, Serbinis co-founded Kobo Inc., a digital reading company.

In 2009, Serbinis co-founded Kobo Inc., a digital reading company.

In January 2012, Kobo was acquired by Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten for $315 million.

In 2014, Serbinis launched League, a digital health and wellness benefits platform.

Along with being a co-founder, he also serves as Chief Executive Officer.

At age 19, Serbinis entered the Ontario Engineering Competition.

His entry in the competition was a frictionless motor operated by a new generation of software code that mimicked genetic coding.

Because the software constantly evolved, the motor was able to hover effortlessly above a magnetic bearing without crashing.

One of the judges, Ken Nickerson, who was an executive at Microsoft at the time decided to give Serbinis a summer job with the company.

Serbinis worked alongside Elon Musk at Zip2.

Zip2 primarily provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers.

It was eventually sold to Altavista for $300 million.

Serbinis then helped found a cloud-based document storage network company called DocSpace.

Two years after DocSpace was launched, San Francisco-based Critical Path Inc. agreed to acquire it for $530 million.

In 2014 Serbinis launched League Inc., a digital health and wellness platform.

Along with being a co-founder, Serbinis also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.

In 2016, League raised a US$25 million Series A. In June 2017, League expanded its platform into the US.

In July 2018, League raised a US$41.7 million Series B.