# David Dokes

> David Dokes is the co-founder and CEO of Polar Analytics, a first-party data and business intelligence platform built for Shopify and direct-to-consumer brands. Before Polar, he led growth at car-sharing marketplace Turo, where he ran a roughly $20M annual marketing budget. He teamed up with former Airbnb data scientist Charbel Seif in 2020 to give smaller retailers the kind of enterprise-grade data infrastructure that big companies take for granted, unifying scattered marketing, sales, and inventory data into one dashboard that installs in days rather than months. Under his leadership Polar has raised roughly $28.5M and now serves several thousand merchants across dozens of countries.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Polar Analytics
- **Organizations:** Polar Analytics, Turo
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** Master of Science in Computer Science / Software Engineering (dual-degree program), CentraleSupelec (Ecole Centrale Paris), MBA, ESCP Business School (ESCP Europe)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Polar Analytics, a business intelligence platform serving several thousand Shopify and DTC merchants across 45+ countries, Raised roughly $28.5M in total funding across seed and Series A rounds from Point Nine, Frst, and Chalfen Ventures, Built a product that cuts data-infrastructure setup from six to twelve months down to a couple of days

## Career timeline

- **pre-2020** — Led growth at Turo, starting as a growth marketing intern and rising to product and growth lead, managing a ~$20M annual marketing budget
- **2020** — Co-founded Polar Analytics with former Airbnb data scientist Charbel Seif
- **2021** — Polar Analytics gains traction as a 1-click business intelligence platform for Shopify brands
- **2023** — Raised $9M Series A led by Point Nine Capital; serving 2,200+ brands across 26 countries, growing ~300% year over year
- **2024** — Announced $18M Series A led by Chalfen Ventures, bringing total funding to ~$28.5M; focus on first-party data for the post-cookie era
- **2025** — Polar joins the Anthropic Claude directory for commerce; expands AI agents and data activation features; team scaling toward 100+

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Polar Analytics, a business intelligence platform serving several thousand Shopify and DTC merchants across 45+ countries
- Raised roughly $28.5M in total funding across seed and Series A rounds from Point Nine, Frst, and Chalfen Ventures
- Built a product that cuts data-infrastructure setup from six to twelve months down to a couple of days
- Grew the company ~300% year over year during its early scaling phase
- Earned 100+ five-star reviews on the Shopify app store
- Ran a ~$20M annual marketing budget as growth lead at Turo before founding Polar

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Polar Analytics officially joined the Anthropic Claude directory for commerce, deepening its AI capabilities.
- **2024-11** — Closed an $18M Series A led by Chalfen Ventures to rebuild marketing signals for DTC brands in the post-cookie era, bringing total funding to ~$28.5M.

## Links

- Website: https://polaranalytics.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/david-dokes
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/davdks

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Last updated: 2026-07-20