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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.’
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Yammer | 2/10 | Series B | $9.95M | 4 |
| Blippy | 1/10 | Angel | $1.6M | 8 |
| Kakai | 12/09 | Series B | $7.5M | 3 |
| Gowalla | 12/09 | Series B | $8.29M | 9 |
| SimpleGeo | 11/09 | Seed | $1.47M | 13 |
| Milo | 11/09 | Series A | $4M | 16 |
| Square | 11/09 | Series A | $10M | 16 |
| Thing Labs | 11/09 | Series A | $600k | 4 |
| Chomp | 11/09 | Seed | $565k | 3 |
| Scoopler | 10/09 | Seed | $750k | 4 |
| ScanScout | 10/09 | Series B | $8.5M | 5 |
| Bump Technologies | 10/09 | Series A | $3M | 5 |
| DailyBooth | 10/09 | Angel | $1M | 7 |
| Fluther | 9/09 | Unattributed | $600k | 6 |
| Factery | 9/09 | Unattributed | $1.2M | 2 |
| Foursquare | 9/09 | Angel | $1.35M | 9 |
| Sofa Labs | 9/09 | Series A | $1.2M | 11 |
| Vidly | 8/09 | Angel | $500k | 1 |
| BookFresh | 7/09 | Seed | $500k | 4 |
| Small Batch, Inc | 6/09 | Unattributed | 7 | |
| Motally | 6/09 | Series A | 2 | |
| Asana | 4/09 | Angel | $1.2M | 13 |
| bit.ly | 3/09 | Series A | $2M | 11 |
| Pixazza | 3/09 | Series A | $5.75M | 7 |
| Y Combinator | 3/09 | Unattributed | $2M | 4 |
| Global Fitness Media | 2009 | Series A | 2 | |
| Eventbrite | 12/08 | Debt | $1.5M | 11 |
| LOLapps | 9/08 | Series A | $4.5M | 3 |
| Sharethrough | 8/08 | Series A | $1M | 3 |
| Knewton | 5/08 | Series A | $2.5M | 9 |
| PurePlay | 5/08 | Series C | $15M | 3 |
| EQAL | 4/08 | Series A | $5M | 5 |
| Buddy Media | 4/08 | Series B | $6.5M | 4 |
| Kickball Labs | 3/08 | Seed | $200k | 1 |
| Pownce | 1/08 | Angel | 2 | |
| Mill River Labs | 1/08 | Angel | $900k | 3 |
| AppNexus | 12/07 | Series A | $2.5M | 5 |
| Seesmic | 11/07 | Series A | $6M | 13 |
| Rupture | 7/07 | Angel | $3M | 4 |
| 7/07 | Series A | $5M | 8 | |
| Kyte | 7/07 | Series A | $2.25M | 4 |
| Ooyala | 6/07 | Series A | $1.5M | 1 |
| Thoof | 6/07 | Seed | $1M | 2 |
| DanceJam | 5/07 | Angel | $1M | 8 |
| Yardbarker Network | 4/07 | Seed | 5 | |
| CastTV | 4/07 | Series A | $3.1M | 3 |
| TrialPay | 2/07 | Series A | $3.1M | 7 |
| PBworks | 2/07 | Series B | $2.1M | 3 |
| Platial | 2/07 | Series A | $2.6M | 7 |
| SodaHead | 1/07 | Series A | $4.25M | 3 |
| Anchor Intelligence | 1/07 | Series A | $2M | 7 |
| Bring Light | 12/06 | Angel | 2 | |
| Mint.com | 11/06 | Angel | $750k | 3 |
| Monitor110 | 11/06 | Series C | $11M | 4 |
| imeem | 10/06 | Seed | $750k | 5 |
| PBworks | 9/06 | Series A | $350k | 3 |
| Rapleaf | 6/06 | Angel | 2 | |
| Radar Networks | 4/06 | Series A | $5M | 5 |
| Vizu | 2/06 | Series A | $1M | 6 |
| Zooomr | 2/06 | Angel | $50k | 1 |
| Aster Data Systems | 11/05 | Angel | $1M | 4 |
| Platial | 10/05 | Angel | $800k | 6 |
| Digg | 10/05 | Series A | $2.8M | 7 |
| Odeo | 8/05 | Series A | 16 | |
| Simply Hired | 8/05 | Series A | $3M | 7 |
| Loomia | 6/05 | Seed | $1M | 6 |
| Kaboodle | 3/05 | Series A | $1.5M | 8 |
| PureVideo Networks | 2005 | Angel | 1 | |
| Snocap | 1/02 | Angel | 1 | |
| Answers Corporation | 4/99 | Series B | $1.36M | 4 |
| Edgeio | Angel | $1.5M | 6 | |
| CastTV | Angel | 2 | ||
| WePlay | Angel | $870k | 4 |
