Ariel Poler

Atheist, Brainstormer, Business mentor, Connector, Entrepreneur, Investor, Parent, Social entrepreneur, Technologist, World traveler

Ariel has been an Internet entrepreneur and investor since 1994. He was the founder and CEO of IPRO, the first web analytics company. Ariel was founder and CEO of Topica, an early email community. Ariel was founding board member of Kana Software, a pioneering provider of CRM solutions; Chairman of LinkExchange; Chairman of StumbleUpon and board member of Silicon Investor and Odeo. Ariel currently serves on the board of directors of Freedom Financial, NeoSensory, Returnly and Strava. Ariel’s angel investments include Flixster, AdMob, NexTag, VivaReal, Thumbtack, Thync, Kongregate, Optimizely, Brightroll, Instructables and SlideShare. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. Ariel is a native of Caracas, Venezuela. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and three sons, and spends most of his free time kitefoiling and surfing.

Kitesurfing, parenting, Start-ups

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