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


SV Angel - founder

Silicon Valley-based angel fund.
Email: [email protected]

A Capital Partners

Venture capital firm providing resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs who are building a new future.

National Semiconductor Corp

N/A (past)

Angel Investors LP


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
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