Ronald Conway Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Professionals
  • 1

Professionals

  • Investments
  • 180

  • Portfolio
  • 33

  • Exits
  • 122

Exits

Ronald Conway General Information

Description

Mr. Ronald Conway is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at SV Angel. Mr. Conway is the Founder of Smart Tech Foundation. He serves as Advisor at A.Capital Ventures, NewCo, and Elation Health. He is an Angel Investor. He was a Board Member of Ever AI. He co-founded and served as an Investor at Start Fund. He founded and served as Managing Partner at 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 an early investor in Google, Ask Jeeves, Loudcloud, Napster, and PayPal. As a result of the success of these investments, he was included in the Forbes Midas list of top venture investors. In 2009, he raised outside capital for his personal investment vehicle, SV Angel, and subsequently deployed six funds through the firm. He is an active philanthropist and is actively involved in a number of organizations including UCSF Medical Center, Packard Children's Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, and the Sandy Hook Promise. He 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, he 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. He is an advocate for technology companies and civic engagement in San Francisco and the founder of sf.citi (San Francisco's tech-backed civic organization). He is also an advocate for immigration reform and a co-founder of FWD.US.

Business Details

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • San Francisco, CA
  • United States

Ronald Conway Investments (180)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
World Labs 13-Sep-2024 Early Stage VC Business/Productivity Software Startup
Playground (Multimedia and Design Software) 05-Jul-2023 Multimedia and Design Software Generating Revenue
Biofire Group 10-Sep-2022 Aerospace and Defense Generating Revenue/Not Profitable
Tomorrow Farms 05-May-2022 Food Products Generating Revenue
Kumo 07-Apr-2022 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Synapticure 01-Feb-2022 Clinics/Outpatient Services Generating Revenue
Ambient.ai 19-Jan-2022 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Blip Energy 26-Oct-2021 Alternative Energy Equipment Generating Revenue
Caspar AI 21-Jun-2021 Early Stage VC Other Healthcare Technology Systems Generating Revenue
OpenSea 18-Mar-2021 Early Stage VC Financial Software Generating Revenue

Ronald Conway Exits (122)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Theorem 22-Oct-2024 Merger/Acquisition
Sharethrough 12-Jun-2024
Top Prospect Group 04-Apr-2024
Reddit 21-Mar-2024
Armorblox 14-Jul-2023
Even (Financial Software) 05-Apr-2022
Joby Aviation 10-Aug-2021
Stack Overflow 01-Aug-2021
Gigster 26-May-2021 Buyout/LBO
Triporati 01-May-2021 Secondary Transaction - Private

Ronald Conway Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

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Ronald Conway Co-Investors (137)

Name With Exits Lead Partner Series Industry
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Ronald Conway FAQs

  • Who is Ronald Conway?

    Ronald Conway is an angel Investor who has made 180 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Ronald Conway?

    Ronald Conway is an angel investor.

  • What does Ronald Conway do?

    As an angel investor, Ronald Conway invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • What has Ronald Conway invested in?

    Ronald Conway has made numerous investments in companies like World Labs, Playground (Multimedia and Design Software), and Biofire Group within the Business/Productivity Software, Multimedia and Design Software, and Aerospace and Defense industries.

  • What has Ronald Conway invested in recently?

    Ronald Conway's latest investment was on 13-Sep-2024 in World Labs, a company within the Business/Productivity Software industry.

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