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

Education

Investment preferences

Focus countries

United States

Stage focus

Pre Seed

Seed

Top investment portfolio themes

social networks (3)

photo sharing (2)

social media (1)

education technologies (edtech) (1)

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advertising (1)

media (1)

marketing (1)

B2B (1)

YCW07 (1)

software (1)

jobs database (1)

recruitment (1)

micro-VC (1)

YCS10 (1)

cloud storage (1)

digital photos (1)

image hosting (1)

fintech (1)

news (1)

accelerator (1)

Actual initial investment stage

Series A (6)

Seed (5)

Venture (2)

Series B (1)

Series D (1)

Selected investments

Displaying 26 - 50 of 113

	Profile	Country	Date Sort ascending	Funding
Yammer Inc		United States	2 Feb 2010	Series B
Vook Inc	Mixed-media digital publisher	United States	1 Feb 2010	Seed
Cardpool Inc		United States	1 Jan 2010	Seed
Kno Inc	Developed a digital learning environment for students to read textbooks, take notes, and share materials with friends and teachers	United States	23 Dec 2009	Series A
Gowalla Inc	Provider of a location-based social networking platform	United States	1 Dec 2009	Series B
Thing Labs Inc		United States	1 Nov 2009	Series A
ScanScout Inc	Provider of online ad services.	United States	28 Oct 2009	Series B
Scoopler Inc (JustSpotted)			1 Oct 2009	Seed
Bump Technologies Inc	Developer of contact and photo sharing applications.	United States	1 Oct 2009	Series A
Fluther Aquarium LLC			1 Sep 2009	Seed
Factery			1 Sep 2009	Venture
Sofa Labs Inc		United States	1 Sep 2009	Series A
Inadco Inc		United States	1 Sep 2009	Series A
Vidly (Encoding.com)			1 Aug 2009	Seed
BookFresh			1 Jul 2009	Seed
Motally Inc		United States	1 Jun 2009	Series A
OpenSky	OpenSky is a leading e-commerce platform curated by celebrities and experts.	United States	1 May 2009	Series A
Asana Inc		United States	1 Apr 2009	Seed
Luminate Inc	Web-based company that makes images interactive.	United States	24 Mar 2009	Series A
Y Combinator	American technology startup accelerator.	United States	1 Mar 2009	Venture Initial investment
Bitly Inc		United States	1 Mar 2009	Series A
RockMelt Inc		United States	19 Feb 2009	Seed
FitOrbit Inc (Global Fitness Media)	One-to-one personal fitness and weight loss training to the Internet		1 Jan 2009	Series A
Eventbrite Inc	Online event management and ticketing services	United States	1 Dec 2008	Debt