Ron Conway

American businessman

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2024 Contributed with his sons half of the cash contributions to the political committee Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao (OUST).
2024 Donated $250,000 to Clear Choice, a liberal political action committee aimed at preventing third-party interference with Democratic candidates.
2022 Conway donated $25,000 to Ariana Grande's Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund.
2022 Conway donated $2.5 million to Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutchers' 'Stand with Ukraine' GoFundMe campaign.
August 2022 Contributed $50,000 to The Next 50, a liberal political action committee.
March 2022 Announced that SV Angel raised $269 million for its first-ever growth equity fund, to be led by Ashvin Bachireddy.
2021 Ron Conway joined The Giving Pledge, a campaign by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage wealthy individuals to contribute the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
March 2020 Began serving as co-chair of the COVID-19 Technology Task Force, a technology industry coalition responding to the pandemic.
2018 Announced that SV Angel would retool its investing strategy, returning to a 'back to basics' role as individual angels instead of raising a new fund.
November 2018 Spent over $1 million and raised additional millions to support efforts to win Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2014 Donated, along with Reid Hoffman, a total of $685,000 to support David Chiu's Assembly campaign against David Campos.
April 2013 Supported the launch of FWD.us, a lobbying group aimed at immigration reform and education improvements.
2012 Founded San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (sf.citi), a 501(c) organization advocating for the technology community and establishing public-private partnerships.
November 2011 Raised $600,000 for Ed Lee's successful campaign for Mayor of San Francisco through independent expenditure committees.
September 2010 Involved in the Angelgate controversy.

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