Sean O'Sullivan (engineer)
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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,[1][2] which popularized street maps on computers, and for coining the term "Cloud Computing".[3][4][5] He is the founder and managing partner of SOSV.[citation needed]
As benefactor of the O’Sullivan Foundation,[6][7] he has also been a primary funder of organizations such as the Khan Academy[8] and CoderDojo.[9]
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.[10]
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Sean Sullivan spent two seasons as an investor on Dragon's Den.
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- ^ Otitigbe, Jessica. "Co-founder and Managing Director of Avego Corporation Named 2011 William F. Glaser '53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year". RPI News. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ Rao, Leena (4 November 2011). "The O'Sullivan Foundation Grants $5M To Online Learning Platform Khan Academy". Techcrunch. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
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