Sean O’Sullivan

Sean O’Sullivan is Managing Director of SOSV, a venture capital firm with over $1.6 billion in assets under management.

O’Sullivan began as an entrepreneur, and his first startup, MapInfo, grew to a $200 million revenue public company with over 1,000 employees, popularizing street mapping on computers. His first internet company, NetCentric, developed many concepts in internet computing, and he is credited as the co-creator of the term “cloud computing.”

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California. As the founder of the O’Sullivan Foundation, he was the founding funder of Coderdojo (a global network of coding clubs that more than 50,000 kids attend every week), and is a principal donor to Khan Academy (used by more than 75 million students monthly).

O’Sullivan is on the board of Khan Academy, the Tyndall Institute, the Autism Impact Alliance, the Brain Foundation, and a number of private companies.