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
	Rapleaf Inc		United States	1 Jun 2006	Seed
	RockMelt Inc		United States	19 Feb 2009	Seed
	Rupture			1 Jul 2007	Seed
	SavingStar Inc	Online digital promotion, distribution, and rewards fulfillment company operating a digital grocery rewards platform.	United States	19 Aug 2010	Series A
	ScanScout Inc	Provider of online ad services.	United States	28 Oct 2009	Series B
	Scoopler Inc (JustSpotted)			1 Oct 2009	Seed
	Seesmic	Seesmic connects you wherever you are.	United States	1 Nov 2007	Series A
	Sharethrough Inc	Socially-driven media networks.	United States	1 Aug 2008	Seed
	Simply Hired Inc	Vertical search engine company building the world’s largest online jobs database.	United States	1 Aug 2005	Series A
	Snocap	Digital registry that provides real-time management of online licensing.	United States	1 Jan 2002	Seed
	SodaHead Inc			1 Jan 2007	Series A Initial investment
	Sofa Labs Inc		United States	1 Sep 2009	Series A
	Stack Exchange	Questions and answers site for programmers		1 May 2010	Series A
	StumbleUpon Inc	A company that provides a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended just for you.	United States	1 Dec 2005	Seed
	Svpply			1 Nov 2010	Seed
	TeeBeeDee Inc	Social network for people over 40.	United States		N/A
	Thing Labs Inc		United States	1 Nov 2009	Series A
	Thoof			1 Jun 2007	Seed
	TinyCo Inc		United States		N/A
	Top Prospect Inc	Social networking company for recruiting market.	United States		N/A
	TrialPay Inc	Enables customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else	United States	20 Feb 2007	Series A
	Triporati Inc			1 Aug 2008	Venture
	Twitter Inc	Social networking and micro-blogging.	United States	1 Jul 2007	Series A Initial investment
	Vidly (Encoding.com)			1 Aug 2009	Seed
	Vizu Corp	Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research.	United States	20 Feb 2006	Series A Initial investment