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Simeon Simeonov is a technology partner based in our Boston office. He joined Polaris in March of 2002 and invests primarily in Internet, mobile and enterprise technologies. Sim’s blog is simeons.wordpress.com.
Experience:
Prior to joining Polaris, Sim was vice president of emerging technologies and chief architect at Macromedia (now Adobe). Earlier, Sim was a founding member and chief architect at Allaire which went from a tiny startup to become one of New England’s most successful IPOs. Sim’s expertise covers the gamut from strategy definition and positioning to R&D execution to go-to-market and alliances development. He has played a key role in eight v1.0 product initiatives and eight M&A and spinout transactions. Sim’s innovation and leadership have brought about category-defining products with significant market impact: the first Web application server (ColdFusion), a pre-cursor to Web services and AJAX (WDDX), the best open-source Web services engine (Apache Axis) and the first rich Internet application platform (Flash/Flex). Sim has a track record of partnering with entrepreneurs prior to company creation.
Boards:
Sim represents Polaris as a Director of Veracode. He is a Board Observer at Allurent and SiCortex. Sim’s past investments include Archivas (sold to Hitachi Data Systems) and Meridio (sold to Autonomy). Sim is also on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX).
Education:
Sim has a master's degree summa cum laude in computer science from Boston University and bachelor degrees summa cum laude in computer science, economics and mathematics from Macalester College. His research interests have ranged from soft artificial intelligence to shared multi-user virtual environments to economic modeling of Russian privatization. Sim has a number of awards from the American Statistical Association, the Association of Computing Machinery, the Minnesota Economics Association, MIT Technology Review and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. | 