What One of Climate Tech's Earliest Investors Thinks Is Next – Bloomberg Law

Sean O’Sullivan has had a front-row seat to watch the climate tech industry rise, die and rise again.

The man who likely helped coin the term “cloud computing” has quietly been one of the leading investors in the technology that could redefine what we eat, what we wear, how we get around and — most importantly — how we meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

O’Sullivan founded venture capital firm SOSV in 1995, and he has shown a somewhat uncanny instinct for the next big tech opportunity. An undergraduate student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he co-founded MapInfo in 1985, a …