Recent investment activity
Bio
Ron Conway is the Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel. Ron has been an active angel investor since the mid 90’s. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005). He was included in 2010’s Vanity Fair 100 most influential people in the Information Age. He was awarded Best Angel at The 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards. He was named #13 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2011. Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO (1979-1990) and took Altos public on Nasdaq in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL). Philanthropically, Ron is a Board Member of the Salesforce.com Foundation, a member of the UCSF Medical Center Chancellor's Advisory Board in SF, and is active in fundraising for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, College Track, Sandy Hook Promise-Newtown CT, Americans for Responsible Solutions-Gabby Giffords, Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, and the THORN Foundation. Ron is an advocate for technology companies and civic engagement in San Francisco and founder of sf.citi (San Francisco's tech-backed civic organization). Ron is also an advocate for immigration reform and a co-founder of FWD.US.
Career
SV Angel - founderSilicon Valley-based angel fund.Email: [email protected] |
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A Capital PartnersVenture capital firm providing resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs who are building a new future. |
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Angel Investors LP |
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National Semiconductor Corp |
Education
San Jose State UniversityBA
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Selected investments
Displaying 1 - 25 of 113Company | Profile | Country | Date Sort ascending | Funding | ||
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Armorblox | Series A Initial investment | |||||
Gigster | Series A | |||||
ClassDojo | Communication app that connects teachers, students, and parents. | Seed Initial investment | ||||
Aisle50 Inc | Venture | |||||
Wishbone.org | Grant | |||||
Ark.com Inc | People search engine. | Seed | ||||
Airtime Media Inc (Supyo) | Series A Initial investment | |||||
Datahug | Seed | |||||
AddThis Inc (Clearspring Technologies Inc) | Series D Initial investment | |||||
Pinterest Inc | Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. | Series A | ||||
Offermatic Inc | Series A | |||||
ContextLogic Inc | Seed | |||||
DotCloud Inc | Seed | |||||
Friend.ly | Series A | |||||
Chloe + Isabel Inc | Innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience. | Seed | ||||
Optimizely Inc | Developer of online A/B testing solutions | Seed | ||||
Lionside | Series A | |||||
Svpply | Seed | |||||
SavingStar Inc | Online digital promotion, distribution, and rewards fulfillment company operating a digital grocery rewards platform. | Series A | ||||
Magnetic Media Online Inc | Series A | |||||
Stack Exchange | Questions and answers site for programmers | Series A | ||||
BuzzFeed Inc | Social publisher | Series B | ||||
Chomp Inc | Series A |
Company | Profile | Country | Date Sort ascending | Funding | ||
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1000memories (1000 memories) | 1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past. | Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale | ||||
Tweetdeck Inc | Social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts. | Series B Initial investment Exited Trade sale |