Editing Mitch Kapor (section)

===Investments===
Kapor was the founding investor in [[UUNET]], one of the first, and the largest among, early Internet service providers; in [[RealNetworks]], the Internet's first streaming media company; and in [[Linden Lab]], maker of the first successful virtual world, ''[[Second Life]]''. He was also founding chair of the [[Commercial Internet eXchange]] (CIX).

In 2003, he became the founding chair of the [[Mozilla Foundation]], creator of the open source web browser [[Firefox]].

He serves on the advisory board of the [[Sunlight Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sunlightfoundation.com/about/board/  | title=Board and Advisory Board | publisher=[[Sunlight Foundation]]}}</ref> In May 2009, after founder [[Susan P. Crawford]] joined the Obama administration, Kapor took over chairmanship of [[OneWebDay]]—the "Earth Day for the internet". In 1996, the [[Computer History Museum]] named him a Museum Fellow "for his development of Lotus 1-2-3, the first major software application for the IBM PC".<ref>{{cite web | title=Mitch Kapor 1996 Fellow | date=18 April 2024 | url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/mitch-kapor/ | publisher=[[Computer History Museum]]}}</ref> He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health.

As an active [[angel investor]], Kapor participated in the initial rounds of [[Dropcam]], [[Twilio]], [[Asana (software)|Asana]], Cleanify and [[Uber]].