Mr Ron Conway
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KANDO id: 85165

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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Investment preferences
Focus countries
United States
Stage focus
Top investment portfolio themes
media (1)  
marketing (1)  
B2B (1)  
YCW07 (1)  
software (1)  
micro-VC (1)  
YCS10 (1)  
fintech (1)  
news (1)  

Actual initial investment stage
Seed (5)
Venture (2)

Selected investments

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Profile Country Date Funding
Vizu Corp Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research. Seed Initial investment
Vook Inc Mixed-media digital publisher Seed
Weebly Build a free website that grows with your business. Seed
Weplay Inc Social media network company for youth sports. Seed
Wishbone.org Grant
Y Combinator American technology startup accelerator. Venture Initial investment
Yammer Inc Series B
Yardbarker Inc (Yardbarker Network) Seed
Trade sale
Profile Country Date Funding
1000memories (1000 memories) 1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past. Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale
AppNexus Inc Seed Initial investment Exited Trade sale
Tweetdeck Inc Social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts. Series B Initial investment Exited Trade sale
Typekit Inc Venture Initial investment Exited Trade sale
Write-off
Profile Date Funding
Zooomr Inc Digital photos hosting service. Seed Initial investment Exited Write-off