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
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SV Angel - founderSilicon Valley-based angel fund. |
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A Capital Partners |
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Angel Investors LP |
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National Semiconductor Corp |
Education
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San Jose State UniversityBA
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Selected investments
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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 | |||
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AppNexus Inc | Seed Initial investment Exited Trade sale |
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AddThis Inc (Clearspring Technologies Inc) | Series D Initial investment | ||||
Airtime Media Inc (Supyo) | Series A Initial investment | |||||
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Aisle50 Inc | Venture | ||||
Anchor Intelligence | Provider of a transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers. | Series A | ||||
Answers Corp | Operates www.answers.com, which supplies answers covering over three million topics to curious Internet users | Series B | ||||
Ark.com Inc | People search engine. | Seed | ||||
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Armorblox | Series A Initial investment | ||||
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Asana Inc | Seed | ||||
Ask Jeeves Inc | N/A | |||||
Aster Data Systems Inc | Data management and analysis software company for data-driven applications. | Seed Initial investment | ||||
Attributor Inc | Leading provider of digital content protection solutions for the publishing industry | N/A | ||||
Become Inc | Series B | |||||
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Betaworks Studio LLC | Venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed and early stage investments | Series A | |||
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Bitly Inc | Series A | ||||
Blip Networks Inc | Owner and operator of blip.tv, an online television network, features, promotes, and monetizes shows on the web. | N/A | ||||
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Blippy Inc | Social messaging service for goods and products purchases | N/A | |||
BookFresh | Seed | |||||
Bring Light Inc | Seed | |||||
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Buddy Media Inc | Social media management software company of choice for eight of the world's top ten global advertisers. | Series B | |||
Bump Technologies | Series A | |||||
BuzzFeed Inc | Social publisher | Series B | ||||
BuzzLogic | N/A | |||||
Cardpool Inc | Seed |