Rahim Fazal

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Rahim Fazal is a Canadian-born technology entrepreneur. He is notable for co-founding Involver, Inc., a provider of social media management software. Involver was co-founded by Fazal and Noah Horton in San Francisco in 2007 and was acquired by Oracle on July 10, 2012. [1]

Involver was the technology platform that powered the first sponsorship of a Facebook Page. [2] Facebook partnered with Involver to build applications for large events like Election Day, [3] the FIFA World Cup, [4] and the Super Bowl. [5]

Fazal and co-founder Horton were named to Inc. Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 list in 2008. [6] He received an Empact Award from Startup America and the Kauffman Foundation at the White House in 2011. [7] He was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 by the San Francisco Business Times in 2013 [8] and one of the Top 25 Digital Thought Leaders by iMedia. [9]

Fazal is the holder of an MBA from the Ivey Business School. He was the youngest person to be accepted to the program without a pre-requisite undergraduate degree. [10]

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