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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 101 - 113 of 113Company | Profile | Country | Date Sort ascending | Funding | ||
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PureVideo Networks Inc | Seed | |||||
Snocap | Digital registry that provides real-time management of online licensing. | Seed | ||||
Answers Corp | Operates www.answers.com, which supplies answers covering over three million topics to curious Internet users | Series B | ||||
Top Prospect Inc | Social networking company for recruiting market. | N/A | ||||
Attributor Inc | Provider of digital content protection solutions for the publishing industry. | N/A | ||||
Blip Networks Inc | Owner and operator of blip.tv, an online television network, features, promotes, and monetizes shows on the web. | N/A | ||||
TinyCo Inc | N/A | |||||
Blippy Inc | Social messaging service for goods and products purchases | N/A | ||||
BuzzLogic | N/A | |||||
Ask Jeeves Inc | N/A | |||||
TeeBeeDee Inc | Social network for people over 40. | N/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. | N/A | ||||
Clearspring Technologies Inc | Widget syndication and tracking and monetization service. | N/A |