SV Angel is an early stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco started by Ron Conway. It provides capital investments to early stage companies focused on the Internet, e-commerce, and information technology markets.
In early 2011 the company launched the Start Fund, a joint venture with DST, to direct investments to companies participating in Y Combinator. In May 2015, managing partner David Lee departed the fund, with Topher and Ron Conway now serving as managing partners.
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Funded Companies
A social media and social networking service company.
Golden is a company started in San Francisco, USA. The company is building an encyclopedia and knowledge tool. The founder and CEO of Golden is Jude Gomila.
Coinbase is a digital asset exchange company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
BuzzFeed is digital media and technology company delivering news and entertainment content.
Cloudera is a business enterprise founded by Christophe Bisciglia, Jeff Hammerbacher and Amr Awadallah.
A cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for a global scale that was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
A telemedicine service company that delivers oral contraceptives and various testing kits to its customers. It was founded in 2015 and has headquarters in San Francisco, California.
A microventure capital firm and syndicate in California that focuses on seed and early stage investments.
Aesthetic is a creative automation tool for digital marketers
Domo designs and delivers an executive management platform as a service to help executives manage their business.
Kite.Com is a San Francisco-based company that builds AI-powered auto-complete features for developers.
RethinkDB provides an open-source distributed NoSQL document-oriented database storing JSON documents and scaling data for applications.
TransferWise is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.
Nextdoor is a company providing a private communications platform for neighborhoods.It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Stripe is a financial technology company providing software that allows businesses and individuals to make and receive online payments.
Lever is an Applicant Tracking System which recruiters and hiring managers can use to track their candidates. The company participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.
OpenDoor is a San Francisco-based real estate technology company offering virtual and streamlined real estate buying and selling founded in 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, JD Ross and Ian Wong.
Co-founded by creators of the Uber Michelangelo feature store, Tecton is a San Francisco-based company which enables data scientists to build a library of features and serve them in production.
Airbnb provides an online platform for listing, searching and booking rental accommodations.
Vungle (Vungle, Inc.) is startup which powers video advertisements inside of mobile apps and games.
Dfinity is a decentralized computing network currently in development using blockchain technology and algorithmic governance.
Blend invites companies that service the mortgage industry to sell digital tools--APIs--through its platform.
Factual is a Los Angeles-based location data company offering users business growth data.
Snapchat, a product of Snap Inc., is a free image messaging application and augmented reality platform.
Skillshare is a New York-based educational technology company offering an online learning community for creative entrepreneurs.
Associated investment funds
People
Abram Dawson
Employee
Aditya Agarwal
Investor
Adrian Aoun
Investor
Annie Kadavy
Employee
Brian Pokorny
Previous Managing Partner
brian pokorny
Employee
Dave Morin
Investor
David Lee
Previous Managing Partner
Jeff Huber
Investor
Justin McCarthy
Investor
Kartik Talwar
Employee
Kazuya Minami
Investor
Kevin Carter
Employee
Kevin Rose
Investor
Lyon Wong
Employee
Max Ventilla
Investor
Michael Lazerow
Investor
Patrick Keane
Investor
Paul La Londe
Employee
Paul Sethi
Investor
Pedro Torres-Mackie
Investor
Peter Tseng
Employee
Robert Pollak
Employee
Ron Conway
Managing Partner
Scott Gallacher
Investor