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 ascending	Funding
	PureVideo Networks Inc			1 Jan 2005	Seed
	Snocap	Digital registry that provides real-time management of online licensing.	United States	1 Jan 2002	Seed
	Answers Corp	Operates www.answers.com, which supplies answers covering over three million topics to curious Internet users	United States	1 Apr 1999	Series B
	Top Prospect Inc	Social networking company for recruiting market.	United States		N/A
	Attributor Inc	Provider of digital content protection solutions for the publishing industry.	United States		N/A
	Blip Networks Inc	Owner and operator of blip.tv, an online television network, features, promotes, and monetizes shows on the web.	United States		N/A
	TinyCo Inc		United States		N/A
	Blippy Inc	Social messaging service for goods and products purchases	United States		N/A
	BuzzLogic		United States		N/A
	Ask Jeeves Inc		United States		N/A
	TeeBeeDee Inc	Social network for people over 40.	United States		N/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.	United States		N/A
	Clearspring Technologies Inc	Widget syndication and tracking and monetization service.	United States		N/A