Polar Mobile’s Kunal Gupta epitomizes Waterloo’s electric buzz
By Linda Forrest
Earlier this week, I traveled over to Canada’s newly-crowned Silicon Valley North with our Francis Moran. To say that the energy and dynamism of that tech community is inspiring and exciting would be a profound understatement. The place is positively electric, and everyone we encountered was friendly, welcoming and eager to interact, share and connect.
The timing of our jaunt was based largely around the Communitech Techworking Breakfast with the Boss, the guest of honour for which was Kunal Gupta, CEO and founder of Polar Mobile. While still in university, this impressive young man was responsible for starting the Impact Entrepreneurship Group, whose goal is to create the next generation of entrepreneurs and help young entrepreneurs realize their true potential. This group, as well as Kunal’s knack for networking, has rendered him a well-known professional within Canada’s Technology Triangle and well beyond. In fact, he’s quite the frequent flyer, jetting between Polar’s head office in Toronto, other Polar outposts in the U.S., and customers in New York, London, Dubai and elsewhere.
