Ron Conway

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Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.

Ron was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft. Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content, Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).

Ron was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “deal-makers” in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ron is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.

Conway is also 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

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• Invested in Chomp. (11/09)
  Posted 11/6/09 at 2:08pm
• Invested in Thing Labs. (11/09)
  Posted 11/6/09 at 11:02am
• Invested in Scoopler. (10/29/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 5:25pm
• Invested in ScanScout. (10/28/09)
  Posted 10/28/09 at 6:34am
• Invested in Bump Technologies. (10/24/09)
  Posted 10/24/09 at 3:40pm
• Invested in DailyBooth. (10/19/09)
  Posted 10/19/09 at 3:05am
• Invested in Fluther. (9/21/09)
  Posted 9/21/09 at 4:43pm
• Invested in Foursquare. (9/4/09)
  Posted 9/4/09 at 2:05pm
• Invested in Sofa Labs. (9/1/09)
  Posted 9/3/09 at 11:03am
• Invested in Vidly. (8/28/09)
  Posted 8/28/09 at 9:47am
• Invested in BookFresh. (7/28/09)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 11:03am
• Invested in Small Batch, Inc. (6/24/09)
  Posted 6/24/09 at 1:20pm
• Invested in Motally. (6/17/09)
  Posted 5/27/09 at 5:31pm
• Invested in bit.ly. (3/30/09)
  Posted 3/30/09 at 1:54pm
• Invested in Y Combinator. (3/16/09)
  Posted 10/26/09 at 12:07pm
• Invested in Global Fitness Media. (2009)
  Posted 6/22/09 at 8:18am
• Invested in Eventbrite. (12/08)
  Posted 5/12/09 at 12:39pm
• Ron Conway — Ron Conway emails his 130 active portfolio companies to advise them on weathering the downturn. (10/8/08)
  Posted 10/8/08 at 5:43pm
• Invested in LOLapps. (9/5/08)
  Posted 9/5/08 at 10:54am
• Invested in Sharethrough. (8/08)
  Posted 8/5/08 at 12:29am
• Invested in Knewton. (5/21/08)
  Posted 5/21/08 at 3:06pm
• Invested in PurePlay. (5/6/08)
  Posted 5/25/08 at 9:53pm
• Invested in EQAL. (4/16/08)
  Posted 4/16/08 at 9:45pm
• Invested in Buddy Media. (4/15/08)
  Posted 5/9/08 at 4:04pm
• Invested in Pownce. (1/08)
  Posted 2/27/08 at 3:03pm
• Invested in Mill River Labs. (1/1/08)
  Posted 2/10/08 at 10:40pm
• Invested in AppNexus. (12/27/07)
  Posted 5/30/09 at 10:44am
• Invested in Seesmic. (11/1/07)
  Posted 12/10/07 at 6:10am
• Invested in Twitter. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 1:56am
• Invested in Kyte. (7/1/07)
  Posted 6/14/07 at 10:34am
• Invested in Rupture. (7/07)
  Posted 10/2/07 at 4:20am
• Invested in Thoof. (6/1/07)
  Posted 6/15/07 at 9:19pm
• Invested in Ooyala. (6/07)
  Posted 7/22/09 at 4:00pm
• Invested in DanceJam. (5/1/07)
  Posted 10/31/07 at 6:49am
• Invested in Yardbarker Network. (4/15/07)
  Posted 4/2/08 at 10:09pm
• Invested in CastTV. (4/1/07)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm
• Invested in Platial. (2/1/07)
  Posted 10/18/07 at 2:59am
• Invested in PBworks. (2/1/07)
  Posted 7/14/07 at 3:10am
• Invested in SodaHead. (1/1/07)
  Posted 6/28/07 at 1:30am
• Invested in Anchor Intelligence. (1/1/07)
  Posted 12/10/07 at 5:18am
• Invested in Bring Light. (12/1/06)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm
• Invested in Mint.com. (11/2/06)
  Posted 9/14/08 at 9:46pm
• Invested in Monitor110. (11/1/06)
  Posted 9/10/08 at 10:16pm
• Invested in imeem. (10/1/06)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm
• Invested in PBworks. (9/11/06)
  Posted 7/14/07 at 3:08am
• Invested in Radar Networks. (4/1/06)
  Posted 10/19/07 at 3:25am
• Invested in Vizu. (2/20/06)
  Posted 3/7/08 at 7:08pm
• Invested in Zooomr. (2/1/06)
  Posted 7/10/07 at 6:44pm
• Invested in Aster Data Systems. (11/05)
  Posted 5/19/08 at 9:51pm
• Invested in Digg. (10/1/05)
  Posted 7/3/07 at 8:56pm
• Invested in Platial. (10/1/05)
  Posted 10/18/07 at 2:56am
• Invested in Odeo. (8/10/05)
  Posted 5/22/08 at 12:01pm
• Invested in Simply Hired. (8/5/05)
  Posted 8/5/08 at 10:18pm
• Invested in Loomia. (6/1/05)
  Posted 7/17/07 at 5:34pm
• Invested in Kaboodle. (3/1/05)
  Posted 7/17/07 at 11:02pm
• Invested in Snocap. (1/1/02)
  Posted 8/14/07 at 11:42pm
• Invested in Answers Corporation. (4/1/99)
  Posted 11/26/07 at 4:45am
• Invested in Rapleaf.
  Posted 12/2/08 at 7:26pm
• Invested in Edgeio.
  Posted 2/18/08 at 8:51pm
• Invested in CastTV.
  Posted 5/15/08 at 8:12pm
• Invested in PureVideo Networks.
  Posted 10/16/09 at 10:18am
• Invested in WePlay.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 10:53am
• Invested in TrialPay.
  Posted 10/26/07 at 4:57am
• Added position as Investor at Haute Secure.
  Posted 7/11/07 at 7:58am
• Added position as Investor at Jaxtr.
  Posted 7/25/07 at 10:05pm
• Added position as Founding General Partner at Jaxtr.
  Posted 10/29/08 at 2:45pm
• Added position as Advisor at Topsy.
  Posted 6/3/09 at 10:32pm

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1. 123 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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4. techcrunch.com [edit]
5. ScanScout lands $8.5M second round (venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. Sequoia Capital Invests In Bump Technologies, The iPhone-Tapping Data Swap App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. techcrunch.com [edit]
10. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Vidly: Twitvid.io Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. BOOKFRESH SECURES $500K IN ADDITIONAL SEED FUNDING (freshnews.com) [edit]
13. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
14. AdOps (adoperationsonline.com) [edit]
15. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
16. Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. FitOrbit Launches With Heavy Backers, Connects You To Real Personal Fitness Trainers Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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19. Alarm:Clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
20. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
22. PurePlay Raises Series C Round, Bringing Funding to $15 Million (findarticles.com) [edit]
23. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
24. Buddy Media raises $6.5 million, launches ad network (news.com) [edit]
25. Company Blog (blog.tradevibes.com) [edit]
26. Pownce Raises Angel Funding (blog.wired.com) [edit]
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28. Loic Le Meur's Blog (loiclemeur.com) []
29. kyte.tv takes self expression to the next level (kyte.tv) [edit]
30. techcrunch.com [edit]
31. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
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34. techcrunch.com [edit]
35. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
36. sev.prnewswire.com [edit]
37. paidcontent.org [edit]
38. techcrunch.com [edit]
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40. press release (businesswire.com) [edit]
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42. Mint Software raises $750,000 for personal finance service (venturebeat.com) []
43. Monitor110 raises $11M more to track Internet for investors (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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45. paidcontent.org [edit]
46. techcrunch.com [edit]
47. answers.vizu.com [edit]
48. venturebeat.com [edit]
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50. goliath.ecnext.com []
51. techcrunch.com [edit]
52. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
53. techcrunch.com [edit]
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55. news.com [edit]
56. news.zdnet.com [edit]
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58. trialpay.com [edit]
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60. Web Video Search Service CastTV Gets Funding (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
61. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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