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Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy
Activism platform Causes has just acquired political advocacy startup Votizen. With Causes’ massive 186 million-strong user base and Votizen’s tools, together they’ll break down barriers to civic...
View ArticleSean Parker Leaves Founders Fund
On the heels of the news that Founders Fund has raised a massive $1 billion for its fifth fund, the venture capital firm is slimming down its top ranks, with now-former partner Sean Parker stepping...
View ArticleBrigade Media Raises $9.3M From Sean Parker To Shake Up American Democracy
Stealthy, unlaunched startup Brigade Media has raised $9.3 million from Sean Parker of Facebook fame, along with unknown sums from Ron Conway and Marc Benioff, TechCrunch has learned. Parker’s...
View ArticleSean Parker’s Brigade Media Acquires Causes In Its Quest To Revitalize...
Brigade Media has acquired a majority position in the holding company that owns Causes and Votizen. Causes is known for its days as a platform for Facebook users to organize around issues. Votizen...
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Sean Parker Pledges $24 Million Toward A Stanford Allergy Research Center In...
Well-known tech billionaire Sean Parker suffers from asthma and allergies so severe that he doesn’t know how many times he’s landed in the emergency room just for accidentally eating something that...
View ArticleRon Conway, Sean Parker Go To Washington (Again)
A new bipartisan think tank with a focus on creating better opportunities for startups and small businesses is launching in Washington, D.C. today with backing from Silicon Valley. Sean Parker, Ron...
View ArticleSean Parker Allots $600 Million To The Sean N. Parker Foundation
Sean Parker, the tech billionaire, best known for his leading roles at Napster and Facebook has donated more than $600 million to the Sean N. Parker Foundation to date. But up to now he’s been...
View ArticleSean Parker Grants $10 Million To Aid Radical Autoimmune Research For Type 1...
Sean Parker has been very philanthropic lately, particularly with life sciences research. Parker announced he’d given $600 million to a foundation with his name on it this summer and $24 million last...
View ArticleSean Parker is on a mission to solve cancer
Sean Parker, the self-made billionaire who, at the tender age of 19, sparked the digital music revolution, has been at the forefront of some of the most meaningful disruptions of our day from file...
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Sean Parker relaunches Airtime, a video chat room for watching – together
Social networks make us lonely, and messaging feels transactional. There’s still no vibrant, real-time place to hang out with friends online. That’s why four years after Sean Parker’s chat roulette...
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Sean Parker’s Airtime acquires WebRTC video chat wizards vLine
It takes some serious engineering magic to build low-latency group mobile video chat and simultaneous content viewing. That’s why Sean Parker’s recently relaunched video chat room app Airtime acquired...
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The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age
Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end. Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we’re now entering what I call the...
View ArticleDemocratic Trump supporters were hiding in plain sight
If you’re shocked by Donald Trump’s election, you’re not alone — the president-elect surprised many people, including the pollsters who predicted a Hillary Clinton victory by wide margins. Since...
View ArticleSean Parker is partnering with the Cancer Research Institute to find a cancer...
Cancerous tumors carry certain markers called neoantigens and Facebook billionaire Sean Parker wants to use algorithms to find them. To do so, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will work...
View ArticleSean Parker’s cancer institute may have found a blood test to see if patients...
Scientists in collaboration with tech billionaire Sean Parker’s Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy may have found a way to predict whether melanoma patients will respond to treatments that target the...
View ArticleSean Parker has left Spotify’s board; Padmasree Warrior, Thomas Staggs join...
As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors. Sean Parker, the early...
View ArticleFacebook bats back after a second former exec accuses it of negatively...
Yesterday, The Verge published comments made by investor and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, quoting his interview last month at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he echoed...
View ArticleArianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is teaming up with Zenefits
Many are familiar with Arianna Huffington’s personal journey from media mogul to outspoken sleep advocate. In April 2007 she collapsed, broke her cheekbone and woke up in a pool of blood, a...
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Sean Parker’s govtech Brigade breaks up, Pinterest acqhires engineers
Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years and little progress the startup is splitting up, multiple sources confirm to...
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Sean Parker’s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable
Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and...
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