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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
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Selected investments
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Chloe + Isabel Inc | Innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience. | Seed | ||||
Chomp Inc | Series A | |||||
ClassDojo | Communication app that connects teachers, students, and parents. | Seed Initial investment | ||||
Clearspring Technologies Inc | Widget syndication and tracking and monetization service. | N/A | ||||
ContextLogic Inc | Seed | |||||
DanceJam | Seed | |||||
Datahug | Seed | |||||
Digg Inc | User-driven social content. | Series A | ||||
DotCloud Inc | Seed | |||||
Edgeio | Seed | |||||
EQAL Inc | Series A | |||||
Eventbrite Inc | Online event management and ticketing services | Debt | ||||
Experience Project Inc | A comfortable and supportive place for individuals to share and connect with others around the things that matter to them most | Series A | ||||
Factery | Venture | |||||
FitOrbit Inc (Global Fitness Media) | One-to-one personal fitness and weight loss training to the Internet | Series A | ||||
Flipboard Inc | Digital social magazine aggregating web links from your social circle, i.e. Twitter & Facebook, & displays the content in magazine form on an iPad. | N/A | ||||
Fluther Aquarium LLC | Seed | |||||
Friend.ly | Series A | |||||
Gigster | Series A | |||||
Gowalla Inc | Provider of a location-based social networking platform | Series B | ||||
imeem | Online music service company that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free. | Seed | ||||
Inadco Inc | Series A | |||||
Kaboodle Inc | Series A | |||||
Kickball Labs Inc | Seed | |||||
Knewton Inc | Online educational technology company, provides graduate management admission test and LSAT prep courses through live video online classrooms. | Series A |