Startup Grind Toronto Hosts Ariel Poler (Best of Angel)

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Ariel Poler, Best of Angel

Startup Grind Toronto presents a live Google Hangout with one of the most prolific and connected angel investors in Silicon Valley.

Ariel is an entrepreneur, mentor and investor. Ariel was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, Topica, one of the first email communities, and TextMarks, a pioneering provider of SMS marketing services. He was board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, StumbleUpon and Odeo. Ariel currently serves on the boards of Freedom Financial and Strava. His angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, VivaReal, Optimizely, Mashery, Thumbtack, Viki 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 - particularly kite racing, foiling and kiting on waves.

Ariel will be joining us live via Google Hangout from his secret layer in Silicon Valley.

Agenda

6:30 Networking and Food
7:30 Fireside Chat
8:30 Networking

Hosted By Michael Cayley, Toronto Chapter Director

Hi I'm Michael Cayley, Founder of Cdling (pronounced "seedling") (http://www.cdling.com/desktop/), a platform that builds trust between investors, startups and mentors. I'm also Founder of the Ontario Cross-border Technology Innovation Ecosystem (OCTIE (http://octiestudy.wordpress.com/reviews/)) Study. I've been doing the startup grind my whole career across Canada, the US, in Europe and China over the years. I hope that helps add some value to this conversation!
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