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.

Career

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	SV Angel - founder Silicon Valley-based angel fund. Managing Partner Email: [email protected]
	A Capital Partners Venture capital firm providing resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs who are building a new future. Advisor
	Angel Investors LP Managing Partner (past)
	National Semiconductor Corp N/A (past)

Education

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San Jose State University BA

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	AddThis Inc (Clearspring Technologies Inc)			10 May 2011	Series D Initial investment
	Airtime Media Inc (Supyo)		United States	1 Oct 2011	Series A Initial investment
	Aisle50 Inc			1 Jan 2012	Venture
	Anchor Intelligence	Provider of a transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers.	United States	1 Jan 2007	Series 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
	Ark.com Inc	People search engine.	United States	1 Nov 2011	Seed
	Armorblox			20 Feb 2019	Series A Initial investment
	Asana Inc		United States	1 Apr 2009	Seed
	Ask Jeeves Inc		United States		N/A
	Aster Data Systems Inc	Data management and analysis software company for data-driven applications.	United States	1 Nov 2005	Seed Initial investment
	Attributor Inc	Provider of digital content protection solutions for the publishing industry.	United States		N/A
	Become Inc		United States	1 Aug 2005	Series B
	Betaworks Studio LLC	Venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed and early stage investments	United States	1 Jan 2008	Series A
	Bitly Inc		United States	1 Mar 2009	Series 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
	Blippy Inc	Social messaging service for goods and products purchases	United States		N/A
	BookFresh			1 Jul 2009	Seed
	Bring Light Inc			1 Dec 2006	Seed
	Buddy Media Inc	Social media management software company of choice for eight of the world's top ten global advertisers.	United States	15 Apr 2008	Series B
	Bump Technologies Inc	Developer of contact and photo sharing applications.	United States	1 Oct 2009	Series A
	BuzzFeed Inc	Social publisher	United States	1 May 2010	Series B
	BuzzLogic		United States		N/A
	Cardpool Inc		United States	1 Jan 2010	Seed
	CastTV			1 Apr 2007	Series A
	CastTV			1 Jan 2006	Seed