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
Education
Selected investments
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Aisle50 Inc | Venture | ||||
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Blippy Inc | Social messaging service for goods and products purchases | N/A | |||
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Luminate Inc | Web-based company that makes images interactive. | Series A | |||
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Offermatic Inc | Series A | ||||
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PBworks Inc (PBwiki Inc) | Series B | ||||
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PBworks Inc (PBwiki Inc) | Series A | ||||
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StumbleUpon Inc | A company that provides a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended just for you. | Seed | |||
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Yammer Inc | Series B | ||||
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Vizu Corp | Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research. | Seed Initial investment | |||
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Vizu Corp | Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research. | Series A Initial investment | |||
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Mint.com (Mint) | Free online personal finance company. | Seed | |||
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Stack Exchange | Questions and answers site for programmers | Series A | |||
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AddThis Inc (Clearspring Technologies Inc) | Series D Initial investment | ||||
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Digg Inc | User-driven social content. | Series A | |||
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Bitly Inc | Series A | ||||
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Flipboard Inc | Digital social magazine aggregating web links from your social circle, i.e. Twitter & Facebook, & displays the content in magazine form on an iPad. | N/A | |||
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Eventbrite Inc | Online event management and ticketing services | Debt | |||
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Y Combinator | American technology startup accelerator. | Venture Initial investment | |||
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DotCloud Inc | Seed | ||||
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Asana Inc | Seed | ||||
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Scoopler Inc (JustSpotted) | Seed | ||||
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Weebly | Build a free website that grows with your business. | Seed | |||
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Armorblox | Series A Initial investment |
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1000memories (1000 memories) | 1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past. | Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale | |||
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Tweetdeck Inc | Social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts. | Series B Initial investment Exited Trade sale |