Ron Conway

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.

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Country	Date Sort descending	Funding
	Weplay Inc	Social media network company for youth sports.	United States	1 Jan 2006	Seed
	Vizu Corp	Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research.	United States	20 Feb 2006	Series A Initial investment
	Radar Networks	Enriching content for a new dimension of the Web.	United States	1 Apr 2006	Series A
	Rapleaf Inc		United States	1 Jun 2006	Seed
	PBworks Inc (PBwiki Inc)			1 Sep 2006	Series A
	imeem	Online music service company that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free.		1 Oct 2006	Seed
	Monitor110			1 Nov 2006	Series C
	Mint.com (Mint)	Free online personal finance company.	United States	2 Nov 2006	Seed
	Bring Light Inc			1 Dec 2006	Seed
	Anchor Intelligence	Provider of a transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers.	United States	1 Jan 2007	Series A
	SodaHead Inc			1 Jan 2007	Series A Initial investment
	Platial Inc		United States	1 Feb 2007	Series A
	PBworks Inc (PBwiki Inc)			1 Feb 2007	Series B
	TrialPay Inc	Enables customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else	United States	20 Feb 2007	Series A
	Yardbarker Inc (Yardbarker Network)		United States	1 Apr 2007	Seed
	CastTV			1 Apr 2007	Series A
	DanceJam			1 May 2007	Seed
	Weebly	Build a free website that grows with your business.	United States	1 May 2007	Seed
	Thoof			1 Jun 2007	Seed
	Ooyala Inc	Online video technology, analytics and monetization company.	United States	1 Jun 2007	Series A
	Twitter Inc	Social networking and micro-blogging.	United States	1 Jul 2007	Series A Initial investment
	Kyte (decentraltv Corp)	Mobile video platform.	United States	1 Jul 2007	Series A
	Rupture			1 Jul 2007	Seed
	Seesmic	Seesmic connects you wherever you are.	United States	1 Nov 2007	Series A

Write-off

Company		Profile	Date Sort descending	Funding
	Zooomr Inc	Digital photos hosting service.	12 Feb 2006	Seed Initial investment Exited Write-off