# Topher Conway

> Topher Conway is a seed investor at SV Angel backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 13 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: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/topherc
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/topherc
- AngelList: https://svangel.com

Topher Conway is a Managing Partner of SV Angel. Topher joined SV Angel in 2009. At SV Angel, he works particularly close with Flexport, Rippling, Hugging Face, Notion, Stripe, BetterUp, Coinbase, DoorDash, and Deel. Topher was also included in the Forbes Midas List in 2023, being recognized as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world.He was also named to the Forbes Midas Seed List in 2022 and 2023. Topher studied History at UCLA and is a member of the UCLA VC Fund, helping foster entrepreneurship at the University. Philanthropically, Topher is involved in a wide range of organizations, including Family House, College Track, THORN Foundation, Giffords.org, TGR Foundation, and Team RWB.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 15% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 69% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 92% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Warp | Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $18M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Sauna by Wordware | Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Method Financial | Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout. | $16M | Series A | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Osmos | Osmos helps streamline and accelerate data ingestion, enabling companies to scale while improving data quality. With AI-powered data transformations, Osmos makes data ingestion easy, fast, and error-free, so your implementation and operations teams can independently activate customers and partners by automating the cleanup of messy data. We arecommitted to creating a world where anyone can work with data regardless of technical proficiency. | $18M | Series A | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| SILQ | SKUteam founded in 2020: a transformational year for global businesses amidst a global pandemic, by a group of early former Flexport executives We power global manufacturing with local expertise, starting with the apparel and home furnishing industries, delivering in-line intelligence, online. From Tech Pack Tune Ups, Sampling, ProductionMonitoring to Quality Assistance, we got you covered with on-site monitoring. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Neyborly | We're changing the way people utilize real-estate in their cities and neighborhoods. We believe that everyone should be able to access beautiful space at an affordable price.Whether you need space for your birthday party, leadership meeting, wedding reception, or art show...we want to provide you with a unique and convenient environment tohost life's great moments.Commercial real-estate is a traditional and outdated industry that has not yet been transformed by technology. We apply design, data, and incredible customer service to create a new way to use real-estate in your neighborhood.We're on a mission to democratize access to Main Street real-estate and create a network of Neyborly spaces that will bring people together to celebrate, create, and inspire.Come join us and build something that has the chance to change the way we use our cities and neighborhoods! | $3.3M | Seed | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Collective | Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a community all in one platform. | $8.7M | Seed | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| MainStreet | MainStreet identifies and claims government incentives, tax credits, deductions, and stimulus funds for startups and SMBs. The company’s platform scans payroll and accounting systems to match federal, state, and local tax credits, in addition to managing legal workflows, to help clients save money and time. MainStreet charges a flat 20% success feeupon incentive disbursement. MainStreet is backed by leading investors SignalFire, Gradient Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, SV Angel, Moxxie Ventures, Weekend Fund, and Shrug Capital, among others. Daniel Griffin, Doug Ludlow, and Dan Lindquist founded MainStreet in 2019 in San Jose, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Jun 15, 2020 |  |
| GreenPark Sports | GreenPark Sports provides digital experiences and games for sports and esports fans. Its flagship product is a native, free-to-play mobile game played over the top of sporting events, where fans battle to become the undisputed “Best Fans” of their league and season. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 21, 2019 |  |
| Naborly | Naborly has reinvented how credit reports and scores work for the rental industry; Naborly helps landlords know who they're renting to, while giving tenants the tools to build credit with their rent payments, digitally share their rental application with any landlord, and revoke access to their data whenever they wish. | $7.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## 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 Topher Conway invest in?

Topher Conway invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Topher Conway last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Topher Conway closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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?

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