Polar
Company

Last deal

Amount

Private Equity

Stage

29.07.2022

Date

3

all rounds

$11.05M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Polar offers digital media technology to publishers and advertisers.

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founded date

01.01.2008

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Private Equity

IPO status

Private

Description

Nova is a leader in Social Display, providing creative automation for agencies, brands, ad tech platforms, CTV providers, and retail media, allowing them to repurpose social creative to run programmatically on various platforms, generating over $150 million in direct-sold digital advertising revenue for 250+ media publishers and platforms in 30+ countries in the past year.
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Justin LaFayette

Justin LaFayette

Justin LaFayette is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Georgian Partners. Justin leads Georgian Partner’s investments in Bluecore, IEX, Integrate.ai, Kony, Polar, PrecisionLender, Signpost, Tealium, Top Hat, True Fit and WorkFusion. Justin also previously led the firm's investments in 41st Parameter, Kinnser Software, Shopify, Silanis/eSignLive, Syncsort and Turnitin. In addition, Justin sits on the Board of Canada Learning Code, a not-for-profit organization with the mission to provide 10 million Canadians access to meaningful technology education experiences by 2027. Prior to co-founding Georgian Partners in 2008, Justin was Vice President of Strategy for Information Platform and Solutions with IBM Software Group. Previous to that, Justin was a co-founder of DWL, an enterprise software company that grew over 10 years to become a leader in master data management (MDM).

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1
Lou Kerner

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current job

Quantum Economics
Quantum Economics

organization founded

3
Lou Kerner

Lou Kerner

Mr. Lou Kerner serves as Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition I. He serves as Board Member and Advisor at Stably. Since 2020, he has served as Head Crypto Analyst for Quantum Economics, a digital advisory firm. He has been an advisor to Blockchain Coinvestors since 2019 and has served as Manager of the Blockchain Coinvestor syndicate on AngelList since 2020. He launched The Social Internet (VC) Fund in 2012, where he invested in the private grounds of future public companies including Palantir, LiveRamp and FireEye. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Force Protection Video Equipment (d.b.a. BIGToken) from February 2020 through May 2021. In 2015 he joined Flight Ventures where he focused on investing in Israel-based technology companies. He also has significant public company experience as an equity analyst, beginning his career at Merrill Lynch (1994-1996), before spending four years (1996-2000) at Goldman Sachs following cable and satellite companies. After Wall Street, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the .tv Corporation, which was acquired by Verisign. That was followed by his role as Chief Executive Officer of Bolt Media, the largest social media company before MySpace. He has advised other blockchain-related companies including Casper Labs (since 2019), Props (since 2019), Silver Castle (since 2019), and Bancor (since 2020). He received his BA in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. [Source: Public Company Filing]

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organization founded

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People

Founders
2
Kunal Gupta
Kunal Gupta

Kunal Gupta

current job

Polar
Polar

organization founded

1

Kunal Gupta

Gaurav Jain
Gaurav Jain

Gaurav Jain

Gaurav Jain is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Afore Capital and an Investor at Modern Health, Flatfile, Petal, BenchSci, and Sinai Technologies. Prior to that, he was the Principal at Founder Collective.

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Employee Profiles
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Michael Russo

Michael Russo

CTO

Kunal Gupta

Kunal Gupta

Founder & CEO

Adam Klee

Adam Klee

VP Publisher Services

Tony Vlismas

Tony Vlismas

Head of Market Strategy

Ashok Raju

Ashok Raju

Team Member

Sean Erjavec

Sean Erjavec

Executive Vice President, Sales

Tom Jenen

Chief Commercial Officer

Regan Fletcher

Regan Fletcher

VP, Sales & Business Development

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