Ari
Stiegler

Managing Partner of Flux Capital. A three-time founder writing the first check into companies that reshape the real economy.

Ari Stiegler

$200M+

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Founder & CEO

Investor

and Operator

01About

Ari Stiegler is the Managing Partner of Flux Capital, a Los Angeles venture fund investing from pre-seed to Series A. He is a three-time founder and CEO with a record of building, scaling, and exiting technology companies.

He was founding CEO of TutorMe, a live online tutoring platform used by hundreds of thousands of students nationwide, acquired by Zovio (Nasdaq: ZVO) in 2019. He later co-founded Prism, which originates loans against shareholder equity in pre-IPO technology companies, and WorkHQ.

To date he has directed more than $200 million in transactions across venture capital, real estate, and direct investments for family offices — including the North American portfolio of a multi-billion-dollar family office — before launching Flux on the belief that the next thirty years will be among the most consequential in human history.

Ari graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration.

Flux Capital
TutorMe
Prism

02Path

  1. 2020–Now

    Flux Capital

    Founded and leads Flux Capital, an early-stage fund writing $250K–$5M checks from pre-seed to Series A. Often the first institutional capital in the company.

  2. 2021–2024

    Prism

    CEO and co-founder of Prism, a platform that originates loans against shareholder equity in pre-IPO technology companies — giving private-market holders a path to liquidity without a sale.

  3. 2018–2020

    Family office

    Directed more than $200 million in transactions across venture capital, real estate, and direct investments, including overseeing the North American portfolio of a multi-billion-dollar family office.

  4. 2014–2018

    TutorMe

    Founding CEO of TutorMe, a live online tutoring platform that connected hundreds of thousands of students nationwide with tutors in seconds. Acquired by Zovio (Nasdaq: ZVO) in 2019; later acquired by GoGuardian.

  5. 2013

    Lyft Ambassador Program

    As a USC undergraduate, Ari invented and scaled Lyft’s Ambassador program — a referral engine that brought tens of thousands of new riders onto the platform and started his career as an operator.

03Focus

“Big things have small beginnings.”

Flux Capital writes $250K–$5M checks from pre-seed to Series A in AI, robotics, hard tech, advanced manufacturing, and fintech. Ari leads with conviction over consensus, often writing the first check and partnering with founders from day one.

Visit Flux Capital

  • AI + Robotics

    Models, perception, and embodied systems that compound in the physical world — not slide-deck demos.

  • Hard Tech

    Companies where physics, supply chain, and manufacturing risk are first-class problems.

  • Advanced Manufacturing

    Industrial automation, precision production, and equipment that global supply chains actually adopt.

  • Fintech

    Market structure and software-defined trust — especially where frontier technology meets regulated rails.

04Selected media

05Contact

Founders building something inevitable should get in touch early.

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