Ariel Verbitsky

Founder & Chairman @ Startup Mexico. Shark @ Shark Tank Mexico. Keynote Speaker.

Startup Mexico a leader in the innovation, growth and entrepreneurship segments in Latin America. We support entrepreneurs in the creation of new, high potential companies, we accelerate SMB´s growth, we help corporates in their innovation processes and cooperate with local g...

Founder | Product Leader | Lecturer | Investor

Since 2011, I have invested in over 150 seed stage (or later) companies with a primary focus on consumer software / marketplaces / fintech and on founders with a passion for differentiated user experience and technical innovation. As an investor, I focus on helping founders wi...

Global Speaker, Tech Columnist, and Startup Marketing Advisor | Transforming Startups into Businesses

Chief Editor and Writer at Tech N' Marketing
(Jun 2008 – Present)

I post one idea a day | Software Engineer at Meta

- Building data infra for the company's Generative AI efforts to empower research scientists to move fast
- Previously: built architecture model for company's budgeting tool, enabling Meta to save $$ and become more efficient
- Before that: fullstack, data science, architectur...

Geologist | Mining CEO & Entrepreneur | Board Director | Diamond & Mineral Exploration | Leadership, Governance & Value Creation

Founding director of the leadership development NPO bringing together the private, government and NPO sectors. Common Purpose gives leaders the inspiration, the knowledge and the connections they need to produce real change - in their workplaces and in their communities.

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author, Meat (Publishers Weekly top ten new release in science, Spring 2026) * Founder & President, Good Food Institute

With more than 225 full-time team members across the United States, India, Israel, Brazil, Europe (offices in Germany, the UK, and Brussels/EU), and APAC (offices in Singapore and Japan), GFI is accelerating the production of plant-based and cultivated meat in order to bolster...