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

Investment preferences

Focus countries

United States

Stage focus

Pre Seed

Seed

Top investment portfolio themes

social networks (3)

photo sharing (2)

social media (1)

education technologies (edtech) (1)

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advertising (1)

media (1)

marketing (1)

B2B (1)

YCW07 (1)

software (1)

jobs database (1)

recruitment (1)

micro-VC (1)

YCS10 (1)

cloud storage (1)

digital photos (1)

image hosting (1)

fintech (1)

news (1)

accelerator (1)

Actual initial investment stage

Series A (6)

Seed (5)

Venture (2)

Series B (1)

Series D (1)

Selected investments

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	Profile	Country	Date	Funding
Vizu Corp	Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research.	United States	1 Jun 2005	Seed Initial investment
Vook Inc	Mixed-media digital publisher	United States	1 Feb 2010	Seed
Weebly	Build a free website that grows with your business.	United States	1 May 2007	Seed
Weplay Inc	Social media network company for youth sports.	United States	1 Jan 2006	Seed
Wishbone.org			1 Jan 2012	Grant
Y Combinator	American technology startup accelerator.	United States	1 Mar 2009	Venture Initial investment
Yammer Inc		United States	2 Feb 2010	Series B
Yardbarker Inc (Yardbarker Network)		United States	1 Apr 2007	Seed

Trade sale
	Profile	Country	Date	Funding
1000memories (1000 memories)	1000memories makes it easy to digitise and share photos and stories from the past.	United States	16 Feb 2011	Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale
AppNexus Inc		United States	27 Dec 2007	Seed Initial investment Exited Trade sale
Tweetdeck Inc	Social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts.	United States	1 May 2010	Series B Initial investment Exited Trade sale
Typekit Inc		United States	1 Jun 2009	Venture Initial investment Exited Trade sale