Sean O'Sullivan, Angel Investor

Sean O'Sullivan is an Angel Investor, and Managing General Partner & founder at SOSV, a venture capital firm with more than $1.5B in assets under management. He was a TV personality in Ireland for a few years, as an investor on the TV reality show "Dragon's Den", and founded and ran the humanitarian organization JumpStart International for a couple of years in a couple of war zones. He helped back Coderdojo and Khan Academy in their crucial early years. He is an organizing member of the Autism Impact Fund and on the social causes side he look to address breakthroughs in autism treatment options, particularly on the physiology of autism. He worked as an engineer, musician, computer programmer, software designer, marketing guy, sales guy, humanitarian worker, war photographer, cinematographer on music videos, short films & documentaries, stock picker, freelance photojournalist, small business operator, venture capitalist and writer. Co-inventor and popularizer (with my other MapInfo friends) of street mapping on personal computers. I have about 29 granted patents where I am listed as the primary inventor. He is credited with the co-invention (with George Favaloro of Compaq) of the term "cloud computing"​.