Marc Canter is an American internet entrepreneur, speaker, technology evangelist and early pioneer of online software,[1] and is often called the "godfather of multimedia".

[1] His father was a Democratic politician and organizer of a meat packers union in Chicago, and a mentor to political consultant David Axelrod.

[1] His grandfather, Harry Canter, was leader of the Communist Party of Massachusetts, a translator for the Soviet Union, and later, a publisher of communism-related books as well as a leftist weekly, the Chicago Star, that he bought from Frank Marshall Davis.

[1][3] Canter recalls marching with Martin Luther King, Jr. and being heavily involved in Chicago political campaigns as a child.

During this time Canter learned about laserdiscs, laser light shows, NAPLPS, pro audio and video equipment, and a then-new technology called videodiscs.

MacroMind and Canter moved to San Francisco, California, where the company received venture capital funding and was the third software-related investment of the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

[12] He was a major proponent of the CD-ROM being a vehicle for interactive video, serendipitously around the time the Windows 95 operating system was released.

[18] Burnt out on venture-funded companies, and described as having burned all of his bridges in Silicon Valley,[2] Canter and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 2009.

[23] He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking.