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11THE FOUNDER

Daniel de Bruin

Daniel de Bruin, also known as Daniel Scars, is a South African entrepreneur and the founder of SPACEBOY INNOVATION HUB PTY LTD. He is the original dreamer behind SPACEBOY, the entrepreneurial ecosystem designated PLATFORM v0.0, and he went on to build COACT Studio, the infrastructure layer where ventures collaborate, co-act and co-invest.

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The Founder

FOUNDER

Daniel de Bruin

SYSTEMS ARCHITECT - SOLVING ‘WICKED’ PROBLEMS

A life’s work spent building the systems that help other people build their dreams. He designed the first end-to-end Entrepreneurial Curriculum and VentureOS - an operating system that turns chaos into clarity, structured phases and repeatable execution that produce real ventures from concept to sustainable MVPs ready for seed investment.

Ten years redesigning the venture-studio model, and Violet introduced as a corporate culture, aimed at two gaps: the lack of a practical, governed path for founders, and the absence of a global entrepreneur ecosystem built on community-owned infrastructure for collective innovation.

EDUCATION
BA Psychology & Criminology, UP · 15 distinctions
DATA
IBM Data Analytics · Harvard Data Science
LEADERSHIP
Da Vinci - Executive Leadership & Systems Theory
AWARDS
TuksNovation 2020 · Golden Key top 15%
Abstract luminous orbital network lattice
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Milestones

  1. 2014PRETORIAJolly Roger - studies by day, bar by night.
  2. 2015PRETORIASports Executive, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.
  3. 2016PRETORIAChairperson, Faculty of Humanities · undergraduate researcher, PsySSA Research Forum.
  4. 2017GRADUATEDBA, double major in Psychology and Criminology, University of Pretoria.
  5. 2018COMMUNITYConsultant - marathon-run community fundraising for local South African development.
  6. 2019JANUARYSPACEBOY founded - Guardian and Chief Ghostwriter. Concept origination and IP development.
  7. 2019THE HAGUEStarters Station - Catalyst.
  8. 2019BELGIUM · RSAIntern-National - Co-Founder and COO. Partnerships with Uber, Student.com, Travelstart, London Business School and Thomas Moore University; 52 startups onboarded across South Africa, South Korea and Spain.
  9. 2019JOHANNESBURGLegazy Technology - SSONA, South Africa's first Startup State of the Nation Address, funded through a network of HNWIs.
  10. 2019PRETORIAWeAreVR with RedBull and NatGeo; VR Wellness research with the University of Pretoria and Eden Labs.
  11. 2020THE HAGUEStarters Station - Co-Founder and CEO. Exit.
  12. 2020COVID-19WeGiveToCare - over R400,000 raised for the IFRC and Gift of the Givers through the first inter-continental humanitarian crowdfunding platform.
  13. 2020SANDTONThe Crystal Hub - Member of the Board of Advisors.
  14. 2020JOHANNESBURGBlackBrick Club - Head of Club, then Head of Business Development. R40,355,000 property investment value by month seven.
  15. 2021MAYExecutive, The BlackBrick Accelerator Programme. Sheriff Flow co-founded.
  16. 2021SANDTONThe Village Entrepreneurship - Adjudicator and mentor, Forbes8 cohort.
  17. 2022NEW YORK · LONDONPlumm - first hire for US expansion, then Customer Data and Analytics. R3.8m client retention value inside four months.
  18. 2022OCTOBERFreethinking - strategic framing of #AccelerateAfrica2022 with MultiChoice Group and C3 Accelerator, top 29 startups across the continent.
  19. 2023FEBRUARYFreethinking - Principal Consultant: Innovation and Interventions. AI modelling and ESDaaS platform architecture.
  20. 2024FEBRUARYDaVinci Business School - Leadership and Systems Theory.
  21. 2026JANUARYCOACT™ - Founder and CEO, Chief Venture Architect. A platform-based venture studio.
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The Card

Everything here is black and white. One object is not. The founder card is the only coloured thing SPACEBOY has ever printed - displayed, not sold.

Daniel Scars founder card - Original Founder and Chief Ghostwriter, COACT venture operating system

DISPLAY CASE

Daniel Scars

ORIGINAL FOUNDER & CHIEF GHOSTWRITER

ITEM
Founder Card - Daniel Scars
EDITION
001 / DSC · Mythic Founder
TYPE
Leader · Visionary
DOMAIN
Vision
SIGNATURE TRAIT
Purpose over profit
MARK
Scarred · identity protected
FINISH
Full colour · one of one

Not for sale, not for issue, not a token. A single card recording who wrote the first line - held in the same register as the equity and the IP.

The human mark carries a scar across the face. It is there on purpose: the work is public, the person is not. The scar protects SPACEBOY's identity, so the card records the role rather than the face behind it.

Thumbprint mark signing the SPACEBOY platform

PLATFORM v0.0

SPACEBOY is the original. The version never changes.

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