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
Education
Selected investments
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Inadco Inc | Series A | ||||
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Factery | Venture | ||||
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Sofa Labs Inc | Series A | ||||
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Fluther Aquarium LLC | Seed | ||||
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Bump Technologies Inc | Developer of contact and photo sharing applications. | Series A | |||
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Scoopler Inc (JustSpotted) | Seed | ||||
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ScanScout Inc | Provider of online ad services. | Series B | |||
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Thing Labs Inc | Series A | ||||
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Gowalla Inc | Provider of a location-based social networking platform | Series B | |||
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Kno Inc | Developed a digital learning environment for students to read textbooks, take notes, and share materials with friends and teachers | Series A | |||
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Cardpool Inc | Seed | ||||
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Vook Inc | Mixed-media digital publisher | Seed | |||
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Yammer Inc | Series B | ||||
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Chomp Inc | Series A | ||||
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BuzzFeed Inc | Social publisher | Series B | |||
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Stack Exchange | Questions and answers site for programmers | Series A | |||
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Magnetic Media Online Inc | Series A | ||||
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SavingStar Inc | Online digital promotion, distribution, and rewards fulfillment company operating a digital grocery rewards platform. | Series A | |||
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Svpply | Seed | ||||
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Lionside | Series A | ||||
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Optimizely Inc | Developer of online A/B testing solutions | Seed | |||
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Chloe + Isabel Inc | Innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience. | Seed | |||
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Friend.ly | Series A |
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Tweetdeck Inc | Social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts. | Series B Initial investment Exited Trade sale | |||
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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 |