Ronald Conway is the Founder and serves as Co-Managing Partner at SV Angel. He also is the Founder of Smart Tech Foundation. He serves as Advisor at A.Capital Ventures, NewCo, and Elation Health. He is an Angel Investor. He was a Board Member of Ever AI. He co-founded and served as an Investor at Start Fund. He founded and served as Managing Partner at the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005). He was included in 2010's Vanity Fair 100 most influential people in the Information Age. He was awarded Best Angel at The 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards. He was an early investor in Google, Ask Jeeves, Loudcloud, Napster, and PayPal. As a result of the success of these investments, he was included in the Forbes Midas list of top venture investors. In 2009, he raised outside capital for his personal investment vehicle, SV Angel, and subsequently deployed six funds through the firm. He is an active philanthropist and is actively involved in a number of organizations including UCSF Medical Center, Packard Children's Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, and the Sandy Hook Promise.