Mitchell Kapor General Information

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Mr. Mitchell Kapor is a Co-Founder at Kapor Capital. Mr. Kapor is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Ideal Investments. He is a pioneer of the personal computing industry and a longtime startup investor. He founded Lotus Development Corporation and designed Lotus 1-2-3. He serves as Advisor at The Human Diagnosis Project. He is the co-founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which protects freedom and privacy on the Internet, and served as the founding Chair of Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox web browser. His successful early investments in the Internet sector and in streaming media and virtual reality earned him a reputation for seeing around corners. Along with his wife Freada Kapor Klein, for the past decade at Kapor Capital, Mr. Kapor has developed a vision and practice of investing in tech startups that close gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low-income communities and communities of color and on founders from underrepresented groups. Through the work of the Kapor Center for Social Impact, Mr. Kapor and Freada take a comprehensive approach to remove barriers in education and the workplace for all and fixing the leaks at every stage of the tech pipeline. Mr. Kapor serves on the board of SMASH, a non-profit founded by Freada to help underrepresented scholars hone their STEM knowledge while building the networks and skills for careers in tech and the sciences. He served as Advisor at EdCast. He serves as President and Co-Chairman at Kapor Center for Social Impact.