| Birthplace | Brockton, MA |
| Birthdate | 12/10/80 |
Shawn Fanning created Napster in 1998 while attending Northeastern University.
He is currently the GM of Rupture at Electronic Arts.
Fanning has since founded SNOCAP, a B2B Music Distributor, in 2002, and Rupture, an MMORPG social network in 2006. Both companies were sold in 2008 – SNOCAP to imeem, and Rupture to Electronic Arts.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Uber | 10/10 | Angel | $1.25M | 15 |
| BranchOut | 9/10 | Series A | $6M | 16 |
| SimpleGeo | 11/09 | Seed | $1.47M | 15 |
| Square | 11/09 | Series A | $10M | 19 |