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Ron Conway

Ron Conway is an angel investor in Silicon Valley. He has made over 20 investments in Web 2.0 companies. Ron Conway is also a limited partner in Baseline Ventures, an early-stage seed capital firm.

Conway was one of the first investors in Google.

Conway is featured in Gary Rivlin’s book The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as ‘the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.’

Milestones

  • 10/8/08 — Ron Conway emails his 130 active portfolio companies to advise them on weathering the downturn.

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Small Batch, Inc 6/09Unattributed7
ScanScout 4/09Series B$8.1M4
bit.ly 3/09Series A$2M11
Global Fitness Media 2009Series A2
Sharethrough 8/08Series A$1M3
Knewton 5/08Series A$2.5M9
PurePlay 5/08Series C3
EQAL 4/08Series A$5M5
Buddy Media 4/08Series B$6.5M4
Mill River Labs 1/08Angel$900k3
Pownce 1/08Angel2
AppNexus 12/07Series A$2.5M5
seesmic 11/07Series A$6M13
Rupture 7/07Angel$3M4
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M7
Kyte 7/07Series A$2.25M4
Thoof 6/07Seed$1M2
DanceJam 5/07Angel$1M8
Yardbarker Network 4/07Seed5
CastTV 4/07Series A$3.1M3
Platial 2/07Series A$2.6M7
pbworks 2/07Series B$2.1M3
SodaHead 1/07Series A$4.25M3
Anchor Intelligence 1/07Series A$2M7
Bring Light 12/06Angel2
Mint.com 11/06Angel$750k3
Monitor110 11/06Series C$11M4
Imeem 10/06Seed$750k5
pbworks 9/06Series A$350k3
Radar Networks 4/06Series A$5M6
Vizu 2/06Series A$1M6
Zooomr 2/06Angel$50k1
Aster Data Systems 11/05Angel$1M4
Platial 10/05Angel$800k6
Digg 10/05Series A$2.8M7
Odeo 8/05Series A16
Simply Hired 8/05Series A$3M7
Loomia 6/05Seed$1M6
Kaboodle 3/05Series A$1.5M8
Snocap 1/02Angel1
Answers Corporation 4/99Series B$1.36M4
TrialPay Series A$3.1M5
Edgeio Angel$1.5M6
CastTV Angel2
WePlay Angel$870k4
Rapleaf Angel2
Motally Series A2

Sources

  1. 123 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
  3. ScanScout nabs $5.1M for contextual video advertising (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  4. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  5. FitOrbit Launches With Heavy Backers, Connects You To Real Personal Fitness Trainers Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
  8. findarticles.com [edit]
  9. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  10. Buddy Media raises $6.5 million, launches ad network (news.com) [edit]
  11. Company Blog (blog.tradevibes.com) [edit]
  12. Pownce Raises Angel Funding (blog.wired.com) [edit]
  13. Citation Needed [add]
  14. Loic Le Meur's Blog (loiclemeur.com) [edit]
  15. techcrunch.com [edit]
  16. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
  17. kyte.tv takes self expression to the next level (kyte.tv) [edit]
  18. techcrunch.com [edit]
  19. techcrunch.com [edit]
  20. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  21. sev.prnewswire.com [edit]
  22. techcrunch.com [edit]
  23. paidcontent.org [edit]
  24. press release (businesswire.com) [edit]
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  27. Mint Software raises $750,000 for personal finance service (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  28. Monitor110 raises $11M more to track Internet for investors (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  30. paidcontent.org [edit]
  31. techcrunch.com [edit]
  32. answers.vizu.com [edit]
  33. venturebeat.com [edit]
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  35. techcrunch.com [edit]
  36. goliath.ecnext.com []
  37. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
  38. techcrunch.com [edit]
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  40. news.com [edit]
  41. news.zdnet.com [edit]
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  43. trialpay.com [edit]
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  45. Web Video Search Service CastTV Gets Funding (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  46. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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