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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