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Ariel Poler

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Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of Freedom Financial Network, MixTent, Strava and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children. Ariel is addicted to kitesurfing.

Recent Milestones

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  Ariel Poler invested in Rally.org. (6/26/12)
  Posted 6/26/12 at 5:39am via yahoo.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Scan. (2/23/12)
  Posted 2/23/12 at 1:45am via techcrunch.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in VivaReal. (1/17/12)
  Posted 2/17/12 at 9:27am via techcrunch.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Pipewise. (2/17/11)
  Posted 2/17/11 at 12:35am via ccloop.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Friend.ly. (1/1/11)
  Posted 6/22/11 at 3:27pm via insidefacebook.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Viki. (12/8/10)
  Posted 12/8/10 at 8:04am via techcrunch.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in GroupSpaces. (6/30/10)
  Posted 6/30/10 at 2:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Thumbtack. (6/9/10)
  Posted 6/10/10 at 9:56am via thumbtack.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in The Extraordinaries. (5/4/10)
  Posted 5/6/10 at 5:12pm via venturebeat.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Optimizely. (3/17/10)
  Posted 7/15/10 at 6:12pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Blippy. (1/14/10)
  Posted 1/14/10 at 1:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in CivicSolar. (1/1/10)
  Posted 9/22/10 at 9:09am via venturebeat.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in Vertical Brands. (10/1/09)
  Posted 8/28/12 at 9:53am
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  Ariel Poler invested in Lolapps. (9/5/08)
  Posted 9/5/08 at 10:54am via thealarmclock.com
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  Ariel Poler invested in WeGame. (3/1/08)
  Posted 3/12/08 at 5:10pm via launch.co
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  Ariel Poler invested in SlideShare. (1/1/08)
  Posted 4/10/08 at 7:02am via slideshare.net

Investments

Videos

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1. Social Fundraising Platform, Rally.org, Raises $7.9 Million to Rally the World (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
2. Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Real Estate Site VivaReal Raises Cash To Be The Zillow For Brazil (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. ccLoop Announces Series A Funding (ccloop.com) [edit]
5. Inside Facebook (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
6. ViKi Raises $4.3 Million from VC All-Stars to Translate the World’s Video (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. GroupSpaces secures $1.3 million and brings Valley players on board (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Well-known angels back local services startup Thumbtack.com (thumbtack.com) [edit]
9. The Extraordinaries raises $1.1M for “micro-volunteering (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
10. Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. techcrunch.com [edit]
12. CivicSolar bags $400K to help you choose the right solar panels at the best price (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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14. Alarm:Clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
15. Social Discovery Network Tagged Acquires WeGame (blog.launch.co) [edit]
16. Company website (slideshare.net) [edit]
17. Loic Le Meur's Blog (loiclemeur.com) []
18. techcrunch.com [edit]
19. Xobni raises $4.26M to let you improve your email habits (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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22. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]