Summary
Ariel Camus is a serial founder and CEO with over a decade building mission-driven tech education and travel products that scale globally. He founded TouristEye (acquired by Lonely Planet), led the Open Planet transformation at Lonely Planet, and now runs Microverse and Leap, two ventures that unlock international careers—one by training remote developers with income-share models and the other by teaching tech professionals to speak English confidently. His companies have trained learners from 140+ countries and helped place graduates at firms like Microsoft and VMWare, while Microverse has attracted over one million applicants. Ariel blends product-led growth, platform thinking (he built 25+ APIs at Lonely Planet), and fundraising experience across Europe and the US. He’s driven by the belief that birthplace shouldn’t limit opportunity and is focused on connecting one million people to international jobs by 2030. Based in Barcelona, he pairs technical training and policy design with hands-on startup scaling to create practical, high-impact pathways into the global tech economy.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
S19 Batch, S19 Batch at Y Combinator
Master's Degree, Telecommunication engineering (~M.Sc. in EE & CE), Master's Degree, Telecommunication engineering (~M.Sc. in EE & CE) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish