Ariel Seidman
CEO And Co-Founder at Hivemapper
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorAriel Seidman is a serial founder and product leader with 11 years of experience building mapping and location platforms from Yahoo! Maps to venture-backed startups. He scaled Yahoo! Maps to dominant market share in its era and went on to create Gigwalk, Hivemapper, and now Bee Maps, leading teams drawn from Google Earth, Mapbox, Palantir and other top-tier engineering shops. His companies have attracted blue-chip investors including GV, Spark Capital and Multicoin and earned recognition such as Forbes 50 AI: Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies. Ariel blends product-facing leadership with a deep operational sense for data-driven mapping, focusing on crowd-sourced and AI-augmented map construction. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s quietly obsessed with “building a map of the world,” turning large, messy spatial data into scalable products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
French
Github Skills (14)
python7
octomap6
viewer6
converting4
probabilistic4
extraction3
ply3
user-feedback3
3d-mapping3
parsing2
perl2
telemetry2
geospatial1
geolocation1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Hivemapper/docs
May 2021 - May 2021
Hivemapper Documentation
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 16 days
Hivemapper/reverse-geocoder
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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