Steve Arnold is a co-founder of Polaris Venture Partners.
Steve represents Polaris on the boards of directors of Impinj and Noetix. Steve is co-founder and vice chairman of the board of directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. He also serves on the boards of CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, founded by Daniel Goleman and Eileen Rockefeller Growald, focused on increasing social and emotional learning in schools); IslandWood (overnight environmental education program for 4th and 5th graders from Puget Sound region); ePals, (which provides safe and secure blog and email applications and mentor-based reading and curriculum programs for students and teachers worldwide); and Rainmaker Entertainment, which develops animated films and television programs.
Steve was drafted to Atari in the late 1970s to develop "blue sky" projects at a skunkworks lab inside the company. In the early 80's he moved to Lucasfilm Ltd. to lead the recently formed "Games Group" to produce advanced videogames and interactive entertainment. Over the next 7 years he built what became LucasArts Entertainment, a small successful division of Lucasfilm - and the only part of the famous Computer Division that was not closed or spun off in the 1980s (ie. the editing and sound projects were spun out as The Droid Works; the graphics project was spun out as Pixar). Steve left Lucasfilm to join Microsoft and lead special projects there, ultimately building a pet-project of Gates, then called Continuum, working on licensing images. In the end, Steve Arnold left Continuum and it was renamed Corbis.
Steve holds a BS with honors from Macalester College and an MA and PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.
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