Shaun Abrahamson

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Biography

Mr. Shaun Abrahamson is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Third Sphere. Mr. Abrahamson serves as Advisor at Citymart. He served as an Investment Committee Member at Urban-X. He also serves as Board Member at Cove. Tool. Before Urban Us he was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms between 2007 and 2013 including ZocDoc, Trialpay (acquired by Visa), Refinery29, Skycatch, and Tonx (Acq. Blue Bottle Coffee). Early-stage investing and advising were informed by his experiences building MediaSentry (acquired by SafeNet in 2005), Starmedia Network (acquired France Telecom), govWorks (the subject of the documentary Startup.com 2001), and Oculus (MIT CADLab spin-out). He has written for organizations such as The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Huffington Post, and CNNMoney and taught classes at Wharton, NYU, and the University of Chicago Booth School. Crowdstorm, his first book, is a guide to working with large online crowds to find and evaluate ideas. The book is a result of his experiences running open innovation projects in the United States, European Union, and Latin America for clients such as Starbucks, Omnicom Group, $300 House, and Life Edited, and features firms ranging from LEGO to GE. He has an MSc from MIT where he focused on computer-aided design, an MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership where he researched online collaboration, and a BSc from the University of Cape Town.