SVANGEL.COM. SV Angel. The video. Roelof Botha. Roelof F.
Botha[2] (born 19 September 1973[1]) is a venture capitalist and company director. By training, he is a qualified actuary. On Forbes' Midas List, an annual ranking of venture capital professionals, he ranked 22nd in 2008[4] and 26th in 2009.[5] Education and career[edit] Botha was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and at the age of six he moved to Cape Town with his parents. Family[edit] Botha's father, also named Roelof, is an economist.[7][9] His grandfather is Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha,[7] a former South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era.
Ron Conway. Ron Conway is an American angel investor, often described as one of the "super angels".[1] Conway is recognized as a strong networker[2] and is based in Silicon Valley.
Early career[edit] A former salesman who had made a fortune in the computer business, Conway knew little about technology on his first entry to the business.[3] Ron Conway graduated from San Jose State University[4] with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. 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.[5] Investing[edit] As founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, he was an early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal. Dot Com era[edit] List of investments[edit] Among Conway's 650[9] or more investments are:
Ron Conway (RonConway) Chris Dixon. Chris Dixon's personal webpage. Dave McClure. Dave McClure is a venture capitalist & founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA.
He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally invest in startups foolish enough to let him. He has been an investor in over 250 companies including Mint.com, Twilio, Wildfire Interactive, SendGrid, TaskRabbit, SlideShare, Mashery, CreditKarma, KISSmetrics, and MakerBot, among others. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twilio, Mint.com, Simply Hired, O’Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft.
Years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter. Dave also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don’t hurt. Recent Milestones Investments Videos Sources. Master of 500 Hats. Chris Sacca (sacca) Mark Suster (msuster) Recap on TechCrunch. Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, there was probably one panel above all others that everyone was waiting for: Super Angels To Super VCs.
The reason, of course, is that last week the situation known as “AngelGate” broke out. It started with Mike walking into a closed-door meeting at a bar. And it ended with heated emails being published. We said Disrupt would not be about AngelGate, but naturally, it had to come up. The panel consisted of: Ron Conway (SV Angel), Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital), Dave McClure (500 Startups) — all of whom were right in the middle of AngelGate — and Roelof Botha (Sequoia), Chris Dixon (Founder Collective), Mark Suster (GRP Partners), and Yossi Vardi.
Not surprisingly, Mike (who was moderating) kicked things off by bringing up AngelGate right off the bat. That said, Sacca noted that he wasn’t at the second dinner, so he hopes no one “fucked that up.” But they weren’t quite done talking about it. CS: Ron made this industry possible.