Ron Conway
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Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts InvestorsOn Tuesday, the company announced that it has raised $4 million from True Ventures and well-known Silicon Valley angel investors including Ron Conway, an early investor in Google and PayPal; Keith Rabois, an early investor in YouTube and... In this article: Nordstrom, Amazon.com, Google, True Ventures, Comscore, PayPal, Mint.com, and Ron Conway |
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Techcrunch | 2 days ago
Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Raises $9 million For New Collaboration Startup, Asana
...A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. this follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, MySPace CEO Owen van Natta, Sean Parker, and Former Facebook Mobile VP Jed Stremel.
In this article: Facebook, Benchmark Capital, Matt Cohler, Sean Parker, and Peter Thiel
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TechCrunch | 5 days ago
The Ellerdale Project Mines The Semantic Web To Help You Make Sense Of Real-Time Streams
...search for any keyword. While Ellderdale's platform is still a work in progress, it's already caught the eye of notable angel investor Ron Conway, who has made an investment in the startup. Startups and companies using the semantic web for...
In this article: RSS, Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey, NetBase, Freebase, Wikipedia, Powerset, Hakia, and Twitter
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CNN | 7 days ago
2010's Twitter? It's Foursquare
...made an angel investment in Foursquare. Other notable investors include the founders of Digg and Delicious, and famed angel investor Ron Conway. Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson observed that Foursquare's first round financing was "among...
In this article: Twitter, Google, E mail, Brightkite, Union Square Ventures, Loopt, Mashable, and Iphone
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BusinessWeek Online | November 18, 2009
In Factery Labs' Search Engine, Facts Trump Links
...Labs received $1.2 million in funding in September from U.S. Venture Partners, Pedersen, and angel investors including super-angel Ron Conway. The cofounder is Sean Gaddis, who also worked at Google and Powerset (bought by Microsoft), as...
In this article: Google, Barack Obama, Yahoo, Powerset, Twitter, Yoomba, U.S. Venture Partners, and Delicious
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All things digital – all feeds - ATD | November 12, 2009
Is Google Scary? Not to Silicon Valley, Even at a Party for a Book About How Scary It Could Be! [BoomTown]
...video, book, California, CBS, classified, Craig Newmark, David Krane, food, Ken Auletta, Max Levchin, movie, party, power, PR, Quincy Smith, Ron Conway, San Francisco, Slide, Soylent Green | permalink Add a Comment You must be logged in...
In this article: Google, Ken Auletta, Slide, Silicon Valley, Max Levchin, San Francisco, Kara Swisher, Craig Newmark, and Soylent Green
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Reuters | November 11, 2009
Early-stage venture capital roundup
San Francisco, CA www.scoopler.com Amount/Round: NA/Seed Stage Investors: Avalon Ventures, XG-Ventures and individual investors Ron Conway and Michael Birch Details: Operates a real-time search engine. The company was founded...
In this article: Cancer, MDV, California, Physic Ventures, SunAmerica Ventures, Northgate Capital, Sunbridge Partners, Woodside Fund, and Mohr Davidow Ventures
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | November 07, 2009
To build up real business selling virtual goods, firms change tactics
...company in its earliest days. But two months later, Anthos found himself laying off some of his 35 employees, and earlier this year he said he hired a top technologist from Disney, and would be moving the company's product development...
In this article: Anthos, Polaris Venture Partners, Facebook, Disney, Iphone, and Boston
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washingtonpost.com | November 05, 2009
The Realtime Agenda For The Realtime CrunchUp
...Twitter COO Dick Costolo, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Facebook VP of Product Chris Cox, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, angel investor Ron Conway, FriendFeed co-founders (and now-Facebook VPs) Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor. The CrunchUp...
In this article: Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Paul Buchheit, San Francisco, Venture capital, FriendFeed, Salesforce, and Intercontinental Hotel
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paidContent.org | November 02, 2009
Real-Time Searcher Scoopler Raises Seed Round From Ron Conway, Others
No wonder serial investor Ron Conway talked up Scoopler during his panel at the 140Conf last week-he's an investor in the real-time search startup. Scoopler co-founder A.J. Asver tells VentureWire (subs req) that the startup raised between...
In this article: Scoopler, XG Ventures, Collecta, Delicious, Digg, TechCrunch, Michael Birch, Y Combinator, and Twitter
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washingtonpost.com | October 29, 2009
Scoopler Digs Up Some Funding, New Features
...thumbnails that get inserted into the stream for things like Flickr pictures. Scoopler's seed round has attracted investors such as Ron Conway, (Bebo co-founder) Michael Birch, Avalon Ventures, and XG Ventures. Though the amount of the...
In this article: Scoopler, Digg, Twitter, XG Ventures, Delicious, Michael Birch, Y Combinator, and Flickr
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Description from Wikipedia:
Ron Conway is an American angel investor, based in Silicon Valley. As founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, he was an early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal, which was sold to online auctioneers eBay in July 2002 for $1.5bn. Since 2005 he has been investing independently, achieving sixth place in the Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "dealmakers" in 2006.
Conway previously worked with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979-1990) and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.
A former salesman who had made a fortune in the computer business, it is alleged that Conway knew next to nothing about technology on his first entry to the business. The story goes that an assistant would print out an e-mail message so he could then read it and hand scribble a reply that she would then keypunch in.
However, he is recognised as a strong networker, which helped him to secure funds for, among ventures, a web site to supply veterinary medical supplies, a weight-loss site, a maternity site and an e-commerce company featuring a search engine that aimed to predict the buyer's mood.
Some Valley observers, notably VentureBeat, have been critical of Ron Conway for his investments during the Internet boom, believing them to be "symbolic of the era’s hubris." Conway developed a reputation for throwing lavish cocktail parties and raising cash from a diverse group of celebrities, sportspeople and political figures such as Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal, which he then ploughed into start-ups.
Some companies he has backed are Aster Data Systems, AppNexus, Bring Light, Digg, Zooomr, BuzzLogic, MerchantCircle, Knewton, Perenety, PBwiki, Rupture, ScanScout and Vizu.
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- Spouse:
- Gayle Conway
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- San Francisco and Palo Alto, United States
- Occupation:
- Angel investor
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