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, a $525M venture capital
operation. O'Sullivan has had an unusually diverse career, being
described as a "renaissance man".He founded JumpStart International in
2003. JumpStart was a humanitarian engineering organization based in
Baghdad and operating throughout Iraq during the post-war period of
2003-2006.As benefactor of the O’Sullivan Foundation, he has also
been a primary funder of organizations such as the Khan Academy and
CoderDojo. Also, as chairman of the Irish Entrepreneurship Forum and
founder of Open Ireland, he is a leader and influencer of Irish
government policy in fueling economic growth and recovery in the
technology sector.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.
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, a $525M venture capital
operation. O'Sullivan has had an unusually diverse career, being
described as a "renaissance man".He founded JumpStart International in
2003. JumpStart was a humanitarian engineering organization based in
Baghdad and operating throughout Iraq during the post-war period of
2003-2006.As benefactor of the O’Sullivan Foundation, he has also
been a primary funder of organizations such as the Khan Academy and
CoderDojo. Also, as chairman of the Irish Entrepreneurship Forum and
founder of Open Ireland, he is a leader and influencer of Irish
government policy in fueling economic growth and recovery in the
technology sector.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.
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