After selling to Twitter, Spindle founder joins Polaris as partner

Pat Kinsel, former CEO and cofounder of Spindle, is now a partner at Boston VC firm Polaris.

Kinsel previously served as an “entrepreneur-in-residence” at Polaris after selling social discovery service Spindle to Twitter less than a year ago. As we wrote at the time, “Spindle’s goal was to ‘make valuable social content more discoverable.'”

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Before Spindle, Pat worked on Office, Bing, and incubator projects at Microsoft. Kinsel writes optimistically about his new role on his personal site:

My time at Polaris has convinced me that this is an incredible time to be a Series A investor. Given the surge of early stage companies looking for Series A capital, it’s an awesome time to partner with great companies that also interest me personally. I’ve searched through a lot of corners this past year and see so much opportunity.

Polaris’ portfolio includes companies like KissMetrics, Quantcast, and Automattic.