Ronald Crawford Conway was born on March 9,1951 and is an American venture capitalist and philanthropist.
22 Facts About Ron Conway
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Ron Conway has been described as one of Silicon Valley's "super angels".
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Ron Conway worked with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973 to 1979, and at Altos Computer Systems as president and CEO from 1988 to 1990.
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Ron Conway was the CEO of Personal Training Systems from 1991 to 1995.
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Ron Conway began angel investing in the mid-1990s, with investments in Marimba Systems, Red Herring magazine, and others.
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Ron Conway raised $4 million for his first venture capital fund, called Adam Ventures, in 1997.
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Ron Conway was recognized for his success with Angel Investors LP by inclusion in the 2006 Forbes Midas list of top dealmakers.
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Ron Conway was a special partner at Baseline Ventures from 2006 through 2009.
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In 2009 Ron Conway turned his personal investment vehicle, SV Angel, into a venture capital firm, raising $10 million from outside investors.
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In 2018, Ron Conway announced that SV Angel would retool its investing strategy for a time, returning to a "back to basics" role as individual angels instead of raising a new fund.
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In March 2022, Ron Conway announced that SV Angel had raised $269 million for its first-ever growth equity fund.
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Ron Conway is on the development committees of UCLA, St Francis High School, Sacred Heart Schools, The UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, Packard Children's Hospital, Legacy Ventures, and Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
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Ron Conway serves on the Benefit Committee of the Tiger Woods Foundation.
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In 2021 Ron Conway joined The Giving Pledge, a campaign established by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade and recruit extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
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Ron Conway is on the advisory board of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit organization founded by the parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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Ron Conway donated $1 million to fund the Firearms Challenge of the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, a nonprofit organization he founded with the mission to promote firearms safety through technology and innovation.
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Ron Conway was the single largest campaign contributor to Ed Lee in his successful campaign for Mayor of San Francisco in November 2011; Ron Conway raised $600,000 for Lee through independent expenditure committees.
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In 2012, Ron Conway founded the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, or sf.
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Ron Conway has been highly critical of President Donald Trump, especially on the issues of gun control and immigration.
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Ron Conway was reported to have spent more than $1 million and raised millions more to support efforts to win Democratic control of the US House of Representatives in 2018.
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Ron Conway was an early supporter of Mayor London Breed, though in 2018 his focus remained on national issues over local San Francisco elections.
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Ron Conway serves as co-chair of the COVID-19 Technology Task Force, an technology industry coalition founded in March 2020 collaborating to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.