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American entrepreneur, inventor and investor
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Sean O'Sullivan of SOSV
Sean O'Sullivan of SOSV

Sean O'Sullivan is an entrepreneur, inventor and investor, born in New York City and currently living in Princeton, New Jersey. He is best known for co-founding MapInfo Corporation, which popularized street maps on computers, and for coining the term "Cloud Computing". He is the founder and managing partner of SOSV.

As benefactor of the O’Sullivan Foundation, he has also been a primary funder of organizations such as the Khan Academy and CoderDojo.

Sean O'Sullivan at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the early 1980s

In 1995, O' Sullivan founded SOSV (formerly SOSventures), a venture capital and investment management firm that seeks to invest in the earliest stages of start-up companies via a family of accelerator programs. O'Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Southern California.

Sean O'Sullivan in his dorm at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the early 1980s

Sean Sullivan spent two seasons as an investor on Dragon's Den.

References

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