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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 76 - 100 of 113Company | Profile | Country | Date Sort ascending | Funding | ||
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Platial Inc | Series A | |||||
SodaHead Inc | Series A Initial investment | |||||
Anchor Intelligence | Provider of a transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers. | Series A | ||||
Bring Light Inc | Seed | |||||
Mint.com (Mint) | Free online personal finance company. | Seed | ||||
Monitor110 | Series C | |||||
imeem | Online music service company that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free. | Seed | ||||
PBworks Inc (PBwiki Inc) | Series A | |||||
Rapleaf Inc | Seed | |||||
Radar Networks | Enriching content for a new dimension of the Web. | Series A | ||||
Vizu Corp | Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research. | Series A Initial investment | ||||
Edgeio | Seed | |||||
CastTV | Seed | |||||
Weplay Inc | Social media network company for youth sports. | Seed | ||||
StumbleUpon Inc | A company that provides a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended just for you. | Seed | ||||
Aster Data Systems Inc | Data management and analysis software company for data-driven applications. | Seed Initial investment | ||||
Platial Inc | Seed | |||||
Digg Inc | User-driven social content. | Series A | ||||
Simply Hired Inc | Vertical search engine company building the world’s largest online jobs database. | Series A | ||||
Become Inc | Series B | |||||
Odeo | Series A | |||||
Loomia Inc | Social recommendations solutions for online content businesses | Seed | ||||
Vizu Corp | Provider of do-it-yourself online opinion polling and market research. | Seed Initial investment | ||||
Kaboodle Inc | Series A |
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Zooomr Inc | Digital photos hosting service. | Seed Initial investment Exited Write-off |