Ronald Conway

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

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.

Ronald 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.

Ronald 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).

Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald 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.

Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald 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.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
9
Ronald Conway has made 9 investments. Their most recent investment was on Nov 2, 2006, when Mint raised $750K.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Sep 27, 2022 Kumo.AI Series B $18M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Apr 7, 2022 Kumo.AI Series A $18.50M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Jan 19, 2022 Ambient.ai Series Unknown $52M Artificial Intelligence Detail
May 7, 2014 Delectable Seed $7M Mobile Detail
May 19, 2011 Domo Angel $10M Business Intelligence Detail
Apr 14, 2011 Flipboard Series B $50M Apps Detail
Jul 20, 2010 Flipboard Series A $10.50M Apps Detail
Apr 1, 2009 Asana Angel $1.20M Collaboration Detail
Nov 2, 2006 Mint Angel $750K Apps Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
Ronald Conway has 2 current jobs including Board Advisor at Asana , Investor at Applied Intuition and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Asana Board Advisor Detail
Applied Intuition Investor Detail