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Seth Bannon

Founder & investor using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.

San Francisco, California

Skills

Social Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Community Organizing
Fundraising
Entrepreneurship
Non-profits
Politics
Public Speaking
Start-ups
Product Development
Nonprofits
Angel Investing
Strategic Communications
Political Campaigns
Strategy
Volunteer Management
Community Outreach
Social Media
Social Networking
Strategic Partnerships

Education

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner

    2015

    Seed fund backing entrepreneurs solving the world's biggest problems with technology. Read about us here: https://www.fastcoexist.com/3063874/this-new-silicon-valley-vc-firm-wants-to-fund-solutions-to-the-worlds-biggest-problems There’s a sea change coming in business as big as the shift from desktop to the cloud, or from web to mobile. Fifty Years supports the entrepreneurs heralding in the new economic renaissance. Read our view here: http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/02/impact-is-the-new-mobile/

2011 - 2017

  • Founder and CEO

    2011 - 2017

    Startup to enable nonprofits and political campaigns to turn their supporters into fundraisers and advocates. YC S12, raised from Founders Fund & others. Used by Human Rights Campaign, AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, Greenpeace, & more. Helped power the first campaigns that won marriage equality at the ballot box: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-social-network-effect-that-is-helping-legalize-gay-marriage/265793/

2010 - 2010

  • Operations Director

    2010 - 2010

    Campaign for the current Governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont.

  • Operations Director

    2009 - 2009

2008 - 2008

  • Organizer

    2008 - 2008

  • MA Deputy State Coordinator, Students for Barack Obama

    2008 - 2008

Ned Lamont for Senate

2006 - 2006

  • Organizer

    2006 - 2006