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
	Chloe + Isabel Inc	Innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience.	United States	1 Jan 2011	Seed
	Chomp Inc			1 Mar 2010	Series A
	ClassDojo	Communication app that connects teachers, students, and parents.	United States	31 Jan 2012	Seed Initial investment
	Clearspring Technologies Inc	Widget syndication and tracking and monetization service.	United States		N/A
	ContextLogic Inc			1 Mar 2011	Seed
	DanceJam			1 May 2007	Seed
	Datahug			1 Oct 2011	Seed
	Digg Inc	User-driven social content.	United States	1 Oct 2005	Series A
	DotCloud Inc		United States	28 Feb 2011	Seed
	Edgeio			1 Jan 2006	Seed
	EQAL Inc			1 Apr 2008	Series A
	Eventbrite Inc	Online event management and ticketing services	United States	1 Dec 2008	Debt
	Experience Project Inc	A comfortable and supportive place for individuals to share and connect with others around the things that matter to them most	United States	1 Feb 2008	Series A
	Factery			1 Sep 2009	Venture
	FitOrbit Inc (Global Fitness Media)	One-to-one personal fitness and weight loss training to the Internet		1 Jan 2009	Series A
	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.	United States		N/A
	Fluther Aquarium LLC			1 Sep 2009	Seed
	Friend.ly			1 Jan 2011	Series A
	Gigster			1 Dec 2015	Series A
	Gowalla Inc	Provider of a location-based social networking platform	United States	1 Dec 2009	Series B
	imeem	Online music service company that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free.		1 Oct 2006	Seed
	Inadco Inc		United States	1 Sep 2009	Series A
	Kaboodle Inc		United States	1 Mar 2005	Series A
	Kickball Labs Inc			1 Mar 2008	Seed
	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