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.

Career

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	SV Angel - founder Silicon Valley-based angel fund. Managing Partner
	A Capital Partners Advisor
	Angel Investors LP Managing Partner
	National Semiconductor Corp N/A

Education

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San Jose State University BA

Selected investments

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Trade sale

Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	1000memories (1000 memories)	1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past.	United States	16 Feb 2011	Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale
	AppNexus Inc		United States	27 Dec 2007	Seed Initial investment Exited Trade sale

Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	AddThis Inc (Clearspring Technologies Inc)			10 May 2011	Series D Initial investment
	Airtime Media Inc (Supyo)		United States	1 Oct 2011	Series A Initial investment
	Aisle50 Inc			1 Jan 2012	Venture
	Anchor Intelligence	Provider of a transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers.	United States	1 Jan 2007	Series A
	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
	Ark.com Inc	People search engine.	United States	1 Nov 2011	Seed
	Armorblox			20 Feb 2019	Series A Initial investment
	Asana Inc		United States	1 Apr 2009	Seed
	Ask Jeeves Inc		United States		N/A
	Aster Data Systems Inc	Data management and analysis software company for data-driven applications.	United States	1 Nov 2005	Seed Initial investment
	Attributor Inc	Leading provider of digital content protection solutions for the publishing industry	United States		N/A
	Become Inc		United States	1 Aug 2005	Series B
	Betaworks Studio LLC	Venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed and early stage investments	United States	1 Jan 2008	Series A
	Bitly Inc		United States	1 Mar 2009	Series 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
	Blippy Inc	Social messaging service for goods and products purchases	United States		N/A
	BookFresh			1 Jul 2009	Seed
	Bring Light Inc			1 Dec 2006	Seed
	Buddy Media Inc	Social media management software company of choice for eight of the world's top ten global advertisers.	United States	15 Apr 2008	Series B
	Bump Technologies		United States	1 Oct 2009	Series A
	BuzzFeed Inc	Social publisher	United States	1 May 2010	Series B
	BuzzLogic		United States		N/A
	Cardpool Inc		United States	1 Jan 2010	Seed