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.

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	Anchor Intelligence	Provider of a transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers.	United States	1 Jan 2007	Series A
	Odeo			1 Aug 2005	Series A
	Sofa Labs Inc		United States	1 Sep 2009	Series A
	Edgeio			1 Jan 2006	Seed
	Airtime Media Inc (Supyo)		United States	1 Oct 2011	Series A Initial investment
	LOLapps	Developer of Facebook applications and games	United States	1 Sep 2008	Series A
	Seesmic	Seesmic connects you wherever you are.	United States	1 Nov 2007	Series A
	Ask Jeeves Inc		United States		N/A
	SodaHead Inc			1 Jan 2007	Series A Initial investment
	Inadco Inc		United States	1 Sep 2009	Series A
	Monitor110			1 Nov 2006	Series C
	Clearspring Technologies Inc	Widget syndication and tracking and monetization service.	United States		N/A
	OpenSky	OpenSky is a leading e-commerce platform curated by celebrities and experts.	United States	1 May 2009	Series A
	Top Prospect Inc	Social networking company for recruiting market.	United States		N/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
	Kaboodle Inc		United States	1 Mar 2005	Series A
	Attributor Inc	Provider of digital content protection solutions for the publishing industry.	United States		N/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
	Knewton Inc	Online educational technology company, provides graduate management admission test and LSAT prep courses through live video online classrooms.	United States	21 May 2008	Series A
	imeem	Online music service company that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free.		1 Oct 2006	Seed
	Aster Data Systems Inc	Data management and analysis software company for data-driven applications.	United States	1 Nov 2005	Seed Initial investment
	Gigster			1 Dec 2015	Series A
	Pinterest Inc	Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.	United States	7 May 2011	Series A
	Betaworks Studio LLC	Venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed and early stage investments	United States	1 Jan 2008	Series A
	Twitter Inc	Social networking and micro-blogging.	United States	1 Jul 2007	Series A Initial investment