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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.
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Selected investments
Displaying 51 - 75 of 113Company | Profile | Country | Date Sort ascending | Funding | ||
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LOLapps | Developer of Facebook applications and games | Series A | ||||
Triporati Inc | Venture | |||||
Sharethrough Inc | Socially-driven media networks. | Seed | ||||
Knewton Inc | Online educational technology company, provides graduate management admission test and LSAT prep courses through live video online classrooms. | Series A | ||||
PurePlay | Real-money online subscription poker | Series C | ||||
Buddy Media Inc | Social media management software company of choice for eight of the world's top ten global advertisers. | Series B | ||||
EQAL Inc | Series A | |||||
Kickball Labs Inc | Seed | |||||
Experience Project Inc | A comfortable and supportive place for individuals to share and connect with others around the things that matter to them most | Series A | ||||
Mill River Labs (TradeVibes) | Seed | |||||
Pownce | Seed | |||||
Betaworks Studio LLC | Venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed and early stage investments | Series A | ||||
Seesmic | Seesmic connects you wherever you are. | Series A | ||||
Kyte (decentraltv Corp) | Mobile video platform. | Series A | ||||
Twitter Inc | Social networking and micro-blogging. | Series A Initial investment | ||||
Rupture | Seed | |||||
Ooyala Inc | Online video technology, analytics and monetization company. | Series A | ||||
Thoof | Seed | |||||
DanceJam | Seed | |||||
Weebly | Build a free website that grows with your business. | Seed | ||||
CastTV | Series A | |||||
Yardbarker Inc (Yardbarker Network) | Seed | |||||
TrialPay Inc | Enables customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else | Series A | ||||
PBworks Inc (PBwiki Inc) | Series B |
Company | Profile | Country | Date Sort ascending | Funding | ||
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AppNexus Inc | Seed Initial investment Exited Trade sale |