Rahim Fazal is a Canadian-born technology entrepreneur. He is notable for co-founding

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, a provider of social media management software. Involver was co-founded by Fazal and Noah Horton in

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in 2007 and was acquired by

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on July 10, 2012. Involver was the technology platform that powered the first sponsorship of a

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Page. Facebook partnered with Involver to build applications for large events like Election Day, the

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, and the

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. Fazal and co-founder Horton were named to Inc. Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 list in 2008. He received an Empact Award from Startup America and the Kauffman Foundation at the

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in 2011. He was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 by the San Francisco Business Times in 2013 and one of the Top 25 Digital Thought Leaders by iMedia. Fazal is the holder of an MBA from the

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. He was the youngest person to be accepted to the program without a pre-requisite undergraduate degree.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fazal, Rahim Canadian businesspeople Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Western Ontario alumni