Ariel Shtarkman is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Undivided Ventures, and she is also Principal of Orca Capital, a single-family office. Previously, Ariel was with Citibank Real Estate Structured Finance in Hong Kong, where she structured debt instruments for real estate developers, REITs and private equity funds. Before joining Citibank, she worked in real estate private equity funds sponsored by ING Clarion in New York (covering US) and ING Real Estate Investment Management in Hong Kong (covering Asia). She has invested extensively in real estate across jurisdictions, and has been an active angel investor in proptech and early-stage companies across industries.

Ariel holds an MBA from Columbia Business School with concentration in Real Estate, and BSc from Tel Aviv University with a double major in Computer Science and Business Administration. She serves as Global Governing Trustee of Urban Land Institute (ULI) as well as Vice Chair of ULI Asia Pacific – Hong Kong Chapter, and co-Chair of ULI Asia Pacific Tech & Innovation Council. Ariel is fluent in English, Hebrew and Russian, and conversant in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. Her other interests include martial arts, integration of technology and real estate, and the future of education.