Lolapps

With over 40 million active users per month, Lolapps has the largest network of social games and applications on Facebook. Founded in 2008, we took applications to the next level by building the quiz, gift and game creator platforms that provided user-generated, customizable applications. Due to our viral expertise and our success with these platforms, we have added the development of Facebook games to our slate and are the fastest growing social gaming company. Our versatile game creator platform, no longer available publicly, is being used by our creative team to develop games like Champions Online, Yakuza Lords, Diva Life and Band of Heroes. We are also working with select external partners.

• - Largest network of social games and applications on Facebook (Hundreds of thousands of applications)
• - 40M+ monthly active unique users
• - Diva Life has a mission by Shakira, voted #7 Diva worldwide by Vh1
• - Best feature to date: Diva Life Avatar
• - Won Facebook developer contest. A user used our gift creator application to launch a customized gift app.

Kavin Stewart
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder

Annie Chang
Head of Products and Co-founder

Brian Rue
Head of Technology and Co-founder

Brian drives the company's technical vision and architecture. He is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he studied finance and computer science.

Kamo Asatryan
Head of Monetization and Co-founder

Kamo Asatryan is a co-founder at Lolapps and is in charge of monetization. Prior to Lolapps, Kamo was an SEO consultant. He also played lots of chess and conducted nanotechnology research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Kamo likes to practice martial arts and dance. He speaks three languages and also enjoys smiling. Sometimes he drinks grapefruit juice.

AJ Cantu

Before coming to Lolapps, AJ wore many senior software development hats. Previously, AJ, held a role as a Development Manager at Marchex. AJ also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Manu Rekhi

Manu oversees the strategy and marketing of the company. Prior to Lolapps, he was a product manager at Google, where he worked on Gmail, Calendar, Orkut, Open Social and ads. Prior to, Manu held senior product management roles at WineGlobe, 123 Signup, and AudioHighway. In his spare time, Manu is on the board of advisors at j2play (acquired by EA), Games2Win, Sapplica, Mentez and Auciti. Manu holds a B.S from Boston University and a joint MBA from Columbia Business School and Walter Haas School of Business.

Arjun Sethi

Prior to Lolapps, Arjun was the CEO and founder of ROFLplay, a social gaming startup which was acquired by Lolapps in July 2009. Prior to Lolapps, Arjun consulted and held management roles at KRKlabs, Facebook, PlaySpan, Carlyle Group, and Advanced Tuning Products. In his spare time, Arjun is a financial policy advisor for select private equity firms and holds an advisory board position at iSocket. Arjun holds a B.A , B.S in History, Economics from University of Maryland, College Park.

Polaris Venture Partners

Polaris Venture Partners is a partnership of experienced venture capital investors and technology executives. Michael Hirshland, General Partner and lead investor in Lolapps, has been an excellent partner in our growth story. Mike also serves as a Director with a number of other high growth web businesses including Automattic (Wordpress) and Quantcast, is a cofounder of The Start Project, and leads Polaris’ Dogpatch Labs initiative in San Francisco.

The firm has over $3 billion under management and current investments in more than 100 companies. Through their philosophy of lead investing and active, long-term partnering with early stage and growing revenue stage companies, the firm has helped a number of companies achieve outstanding success. Among them are Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR) (sold to Alkermes); Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM); Allaire Corporation (sold to Macromedia); Aspect Medical Systems (NASDAQ: ASPM); Centra Software(NASDAQ: CTRA); deCODE genetics (NASDAQ: DCGN); Paradigm Genetics,Inc. (NASDAQ: PDGM); and Solidworks (sold to Dassault Systemes).

Ron Conway, SV Angel

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. He was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979-1990) and took Altos Public on Nasdaq in 1982, and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL).??Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), Digg.com, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content, Facebook, RockYou, PurePlay, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, Simply Hired, StumbleUpon, and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).

Philanthropically, Ron is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.

Ariel Poler

Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur and investor. He was the founder and CEO of IPRO, the first web analytics company. Ariel was founder and CEO of Topica, an early provider of email marketing & community solutions. He was founding board member of Kana Software, a pioneering provider of CRM solutions; Chairman of LinkExchange, one of the first online ad networks, and Chairman of StumbleUpon, a leading content discovery service. Ariel spends most of his time helping Internet start-ups.

He currently serves on the board of directors of Freedom Financial, a provider of consumer financial services and leads; Lolapps, the largest social network applications developer, and SpeedDate, an online dating service on social networks. He is the CEO of TextMarks, which is enabling the “long tail” of SMS publishing and communications. Ariel’s angel investments include RockYou, Flixster, AdMob, Causes, Slideshare, Kongregate, Xobni, Kidlandia, Outright 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.