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Sean Parker

Sean Parker is a serial entrepreneur and a managing partner at the Founders Fund. As one of the three founders of Napster, Sean helped architect and manage the peer-to-peer file sharing application to become one of the largest on the net.

Parker subsequently helped found and manage Plaxo, a VC-backed contact management application company. More recently, Parker worked as the Founding President of Facebook before moving on to join up with Peter Thiel at The Founders Fund, a seed-stage venture capital firm. Parker also recently led the move to launch Causes, a new developer application that organizes individuals’ charitable giving on Facebook as well as contributing as an investor at Spotify.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
NJOY 6/13Venture Round$75M2
Crowdtilt 3/13Series A$12M8
NationBuilder 3/12Series A$6.25M9
Votizen 2/12Venture Round$750k5
Spotify 2/10Series C€11.6M2
Asana 4/09Angel$1.2M13

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  1. NJOY, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based electronic cigarette brand, raised $75m in funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  2. Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtilt Lands $12M From Sean Parker, Andreessen & More; Now Acquiring To Expand Into Mobile (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Community Organizing Platform NationBuilder Raises $6.3M From Andreessen Horowitz; Causes Founder Joins As President (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Votizen Raises $750k From Sean Parker, Others, To Turn Elections From Fundraising To ‘Friendraising’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Asana (privco.com) [edit]
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