Ron Conway

Ron Conway is the undisputed 'Godfather of Silicon Valley' - a San Francisco-born angel investor who backed Google, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Stripe, OpenAI, and 650+ other companies through SV Angel, the firm he founded in 2009. Known as 'The Human Router' by Marc Andreessen for his legendary ability to connect founders with capital, talent, and opportunity, Conway pioneered seed-stage investing with small checks and high conviction in people, writing 1+ investments per week at his peak. A lifelong Democrat and civic power broker, philanthropist, and father of three sons who all work in his ecosystem, Conway announced a rare cancer diagnosis in April 2026 while vowing to never back down from a fight.