# Ron Conway

> Ron Conway is a Series A investor at SV Angel (San Francisco) backing Software and Social Media. See 176 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 176
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-conway-17692953/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/RonConway
- Website: https://x.com/RonConway
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RonConway
- AngelList: https://www.svangel.com/team

Ron Conway is a Series A investor at SV Angel in San Francisco focused on Software and Social Media. Ron Conway is based out of San Francisco, California, and was the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel. Ron Conway attended San Jose State University. Ron previously worked at Salesforce Foundation as a Board Member. Ron Conway has received the Best Angel at the TechCrunch Crunchies Awards.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$6.1M |
| Angel | $500k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 28 | 16% |
| Social Media | 27 | 15% |
| Internet | 22 | 13% |
| Advertising | 22 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 18 | 10% |

217 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 65 | 37% |
| Seed | 37 | 21% |
| Angel | 27 | 15% |
| Series B | 20 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 5% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 144 | 82% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| World Labs | World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities. | $230M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| Kumo.AI | Kumo.AI is a SaaS AI platform that allows anyone in an organization to tackle predictive problems in business. It enables all non-technical and technical users, regardless of ML experience, to traverse all the major steps of a best practice ML lifecycle.The platform's users can immediately tackle a wide variety of predictive problems all ina single sitting, in application areas such as new customer acquisition, customer loyalty and retention, personalization and next best action, entity resolution and knowledge graph curation, abuse detection, financial crime detection, generation of ML features for data science teams, and more.Kumo.AI was founded in 2021 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $18M | Series B | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Tomorrow Farms | Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands. | $8.5M | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Kumo.AI | Kumo.AI is a SaaS AI platform that allows anyone in an organization to tackle predictive problems in business. It enables all non-technical and technical users, regardless of ML experience, to traverse all the major steps of a best practice ML lifecycle.The platform's users can immediately tackle a wide variety of predictive problems all ina single sitting, in application areas such as new customer acquisition, customer loyalty and retention, personalization and next best action, entity resolution and knowledge graph curation, abuse detection, financial crime detection, generation of ML features for data science teams, and more.Kumo.AI was founded in 2021 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $18.5M | Series A | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Synapticure | Synapticure provides neurodegenerative disease patients with disease specialist and wrap around care, no matter where you live in the US. Founded by patients, we support Dementia, Parkinson's, ALS and more with everyone from on-demand disease-specific neurologists to SLT to 24/7 care coordination and support. | $6M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Ambient.ai | Ambient.ai is a leader in real-time human-level perception technology that enables intelligent environments that are safe, efficient and sustainable. Founded by experts in Artificial Intelligence, Imaging and Deep Learning from Stanford University, Apple, Google, Microsoft and backed by YCombinator (W17), StartX and top-tier VCs and AngelInvestors in Silicon Valley.We are hiring! - careers at ambient.ai | $52M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Blip Energy | Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services. | $850K | Angel | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Blip Energy | Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services. | $850K | Pre-Seed | Oct 09, 2021 |  |
| Walnut | Walnut offers a failure-free, codeless, and 100% customizable platform that empowers every sales rep to own their successful sales demo experience. It aims to redefine inside sales in the new age. The first-of-its-kind codeless platform integrates with a company's CRMs and data sources, making the process of creating sales demos both automatedand customizable. Walnut's drag-and-drop solution eliminates the need for back-end teams and streamlines the demoing process by placing full control back in the hands of the sales team. To achieve a fail-proof experience, the demos are run live, even when the real product is offline. Founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneurs Yoav VIlner and Danni Friedland, Walnut is headquartered in New York City. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| ANA Therapeutics | ANA Therapeutics is a developer of a novel coronavirus vaccine intended to save human lives. It is developing therapeutics to solve the coronavirus pandemic using Niclosamide that enables medical practitioners to treat patients suffering from COVID-19. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Foster City, California. | $5M | Seed | Aug 04, 2020 |  |

10 of 176 investments shown.

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## About SV Angel

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

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| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ron Conway | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-conway |
| Ashvin Bachireddy | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashvin-bachireddy |
| Robert Pollak | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-pollak |
| Sourav Gupta | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sourav-gupta-8e49 |
| Topher Conway | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/topher-conway |

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## FAQ

### What does Ron Conway invest in?

Ron Conway invests primarily in Software, Social Media and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 176 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ron Conway's check size?

Ron Conway typically joins rounds of $500k–$6.1M at Seed, $500k–$1.7M at Angel and $1.2M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ron Conway participates in.

### When did Ron Conway last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ron Conway closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 176 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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