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
SV Angel - founderSilicon Valley-based angel fund.Email: [email protected] |
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A Capital PartnersVenture capital firm providing resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs who are building a new future. |
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National Semiconductor Corp |
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Angel Investors LP |
Education
San Jose State UniversityBA
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Selected investments
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FitOrbit Inc (Global Fitness Media) | One-to-one personal fitness and weight loss training to the Internet | Series A | ||||
Experience Project Inc | A comfortable and supportive place for individuals to share and connect with others around the things that matter to them most | Series A | ||||
Factery | Venture | |||||
Fluther Aquarium LLC | Seed | |||||
Lionside | Series A | |||||
Loomia Inc | Social recommendations solutions for online content businesses | Seed | ||||
Magnetic Media Online Inc | Series A | |||||
Mill River Labs (TradeVibes) | Seed | |||||
Rupture | Seed | |||||
Radar Networks | Enriching content for a new dimension of the Web. | Series A | ||||
PureVideo Networks Inc | Seed | |||||
PurePlay | Real-money online subscription poker | Series C | ||||
Pownce | Seed | |||||
Snocap | Digital registry that provides real-time management of online licensing. | Seed | ||||
Svpply | Seed | |||||
Thing Labs Inc | Series A | |||||
Platial Inc | Series A | |||||
Platial Inc | Seed | |||||
Friend.ly | Series A | |||||
DanceJam | Seed | |||||
Sharethrough Inc | Socially-driven media networks. | Seed | ||||
TeeBeeDee Inc | Social network for people over 40. | N/A | ||||
Top Prospect Inc | Social networking company for recruiting market. | N/A | ||||
Kaboodle Inc | Series A | |||||
Answers Corp | Operates www.answers.com, which supplies answers covering over three million topics to curious Internet users | Series B |