# Sean Knapp

> Sean Knapp is a seed investor in San Francisco backing iOS and PaaS. See 3 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanknapp
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/seanknapp
- Website: http://www.ascend.io
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sean.knapp

Sean Knapp is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on iOS and PaaS. Sean Knapp - Founder, CEO @ Ascend.io

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iOS | 1 | 33% |
| PaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Sales | 1 | 33% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Android | 1 | 33% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sales Bootcamp | Sales Bootcamp trains, places, and mentor sales development representatives and interns. It is an in-person and immersive training program that gives students three months of sales experience. The company is run by a group of individuals that have spent their careers building and scaling sales teams. Most tech organizations are struggling to findentry-level candidates with some amount of sales experience and knowledge of the CRM tools and additionally, job seekers are frustrated they are not qualified for entry-level positions. Sales Bootcamp bridges this gap by training students in the steps and skills required to be prospectors as well as provides a program where they sell and set meetings for tech companies.Sales Bootcamp is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by James Nielsen. | $600K | Seed | Nov 30, 2015 | http://salesbootcamp.com |
| Geeklist | Geeklist is a social platform for developers to highlight their achievements, share resources, collaborate, and build their street creed. It was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.3M | Angel | Mar 08, 2013 | http://geekli.st |
| Parse | Parse offers cloud-based software developer kits that enable users to create apps for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its product portfolio is comprised of Parse Core to save data in the cloud; make the app social; run custom app code in the Parse Cloud; schedule recurring tasks such as sending engagement emails, updating data, and longrunning computation; share data between platforms; and get a local datastore and Parse dashboard.The company also provides Parse Push for creating, scheduling, and segmenting push notifications; and Parse Analytics to find and fix crashes, measure app usage, optimize push campaigns, track custom analytics, and measure growth analytics.Parse is based in San Francisco, California. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of Facebook. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 04, 2011 | http://parse.com |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Creative Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PULSAR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pulsar-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Start Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/start-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sean Knapp invest in?

Sean Knapp invests primarily in iOS, PaaS and Sales startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Sean Knapp?

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### When did Sean Knapp last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sean Knapp closed in Nov 2015. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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