Denny Darmo

I am a visionary with over 30 years in the entrepreneurial and investment landscape, possessing expertise in startup strategic planning, business development. I also serve as a mentor to Startups most recently with Capital One's Accelerator program. I started my first business at the age of eight (of course at that time I didn't label what I was doing as such) and never stopped building opportunities until I went to college at Rochester Institute of Technology for Computer Science. Even though I had a passion for technology and coding I decided to start a career on Wall Street in 1994, where I swiftly transitioned into investment banking, then debt side of the business, and subsequently specializing in structuring deals for early and late-stage prominent technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter.

More recently, after exiting RLT, which was the first vertically integrated, publicly listed blockchain investment management company, I started building fan/viewer engagement tools trying to collect better data on fan behaviors, interests and patterns as they consume content - trying to understand what was most important and relevant to each and every fan when engaging with their favorite sports or sports teams. Today, after Founding a sports tech company that completed its merger in June of 2024, I am currently the CEO of Providential Media.