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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, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content(acquired by Yahoo!), 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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  Ron Conway added a position as Board of Advisors at DonorsChoose.org.
  Posted 7/26/11 at 5:46pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Investor. (1/29/11)
  Posted 1/29/11 at 3:45pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Board of Advisors at MarketShare Partners. (10/1/07)
  Posted 12/20/10 at 10:51pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Advisor at 140 Proof.
  Posted 3/20/10 at 3:46pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Board of Directors at Associated Content.
  Posted 1/8/10 at 3:31pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Investor.
  Posted 12/22/09 at 10:20pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Advisor at Asana.
  Posted 11/24/09 at 9:53am
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  Ron Conway added a position as Advisor at Topsy.
  Posted 6/3/09 at 10:32pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Founding General Partner.
  Posted 10/29/08 at 2:45pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Check at Jaxtr.
  Posted 7/25/07 at 10:05pm
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  Ron Conway added a position as Investor at Haute Secure.
  Posted 7/11/07 at 7:58am
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  Ron Conway invested in Wishbone.org. (1/1/12)
  Posted 5/1/12 at 12:57pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ron Conway invested in Become. (8/1/05)
  Posted 2/10/12 at 3:31pm via ecnext.com
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  Ron Conway invested in Chloe + Isabel. (1/1/11)
  Posted 2/5/12 at 12:24pm via xconomy.com
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  Ron Conway invested in Aisle50. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/5/12 at 8:14pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ron Conway invested in Ark. (11/1/11)
  Posted 11/22/11 at 8:12pm

Investments

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1. Aisle50 Lands $2.6M To Save You 50% On Organic Batter Blaster (And Other Fine Foods) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Kickstart A Needy Kid’s Education With Conway-Backed Wishbone.org (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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4. Dublin’s Datahug Raises $1.5 Million From Ron Conway, VC Firm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. AddThis Indeed: Clearspring Raises $20 Million As It Rides Social Sharing Boom (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Pinterest Has Already Pinned Down $10M At A $40M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Offermatic Raises $4.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Top Notch Angel Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. ContextLogic Gets $1.7M From Conway, Rabois And Others To Better Target Ads, Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In PaaS Dotcloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Greylock Invests $2.5 Million in 1000Memories (TCTV) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Inside Facebook (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
13. New York Startups Shapeways, Chloe + Isabel, and HowAboutWe.com Rake in Cash (xconomy.com) [edit]
14. Svpply is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
15. Lionside scores $1.6M to make Facebook games for sports fans (venturebeat.com) [edit]
16. Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Digital Couponing Startup SaveWave Scores $2.3M From Leading Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
21. TechCrunch [edit]
22. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
23. Yammer Grabs $10 Million More in Funding, SEC (kara.allthingsd.com) [edit]
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25. Chegg Founder Raises Another $7.5 Million For Stealth Startup Kakai, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. TechCrunch, SEC (crunchbase.com) [edit]
27. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. techcrunch.com [edit]
29. Company Communication [edit]
30. techcrunch.com [edit]
31. ScanScout lands $8.5M second round (venturebeat.com) [edit]
32. Bump Technologies Confirms Sequoia Funding, Reveals Roster Of Angels. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Alternative Search Engine Factery.net Raises $1.2 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
35. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Lead Generation Firm Inadco Raises $5 Million; Spends $3 Million Of It On Acquisition (paidcontent.org) [edit]
37. Vidly: Twitvid.io Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. BOOKFRESH SECURES $500K IN ADDITIONAL SEED FUNDING (freshnews.com) [edit]
39. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
40. AdOps (adoperationsonline.com) [edit]
41. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Asana (privco.com) [edit]
43. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) []
44. Pixazza Raises $5.75 Million In First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
45. Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Andreessen Horowitz Back RockMelt Social Media Browswer (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
47. FitOrbit Launches With Heavy Backers, Connects You To Real Personal Fitness Trainers Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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49. Alarm:Clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
50. Triporati Receives $6,000,000 New Financing (xconomy.com) [edit]
51. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
53. PurePlay Raises Series C Round, Bringing Funding to $15 Million (findarticles.com) [edit]
54. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
55. Buddy Media raises $6.5 million, launches ad network (news.com) [edit]
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57. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. Pownce Raises Angel Funding (blog.wired.com) [edit]
59. Company Blog (blog.tradevibes.com) [edit]
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62. Loic Le Meur's Blog (loiclemeur.com) []
63. kyte.tv takes self expression to the next level (kyte.tv) [edit]
64. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
65. techcrunch.com [edit]
66. techcrunch.com [edit]
67. Cap Funding Report [edit]
68. techcrunch.com [edit]
69. techcrunch.com [edit]
70. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
71. sev.prnewswire.com [edit]
72. TrialPay Backed By Investors of Skype, Google, and Akamai For Payment Platform (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
73. paidcontent.org [edit]
74. techcrunch.com [edit]
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76. press release (businesswire.com) [edit]
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78. Mint Software raises $750,000 for personal finance service (venturebeat.com) []
79. Monitor110 raises $11M more to track Internet for investors (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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81. paidcontent.org [edit]
82. Rapleaf Secures Venture Capital Funding (rapleaf.com) [edit]
83. techcrunch.com [edit]
84. answers.vizu.com [edit]
85. venturebeat.com [edit]
86. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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88. Web Video Search Service CastTV Gets Funding (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
89. StumbleUpon May Be For Sale: 50M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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91. techcrunch.com [edit]
92. goliath.ecnext.com []
93. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
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95. eCommerce news (goliath.ecnext.com) [edit]
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