SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway, specializing in early-stage investments primarily in the Internet software sector. Established in 1992, the firm distinguishes itself from traditional venture capital by adopting a portfolio approach, investing in a larger number of companies while refraining from taking board seats. This allows SV Angel to focus on providing extensive business development, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advice to its portfolio companies. Over the years, SV Angel has supported numerous high-profile startups, including Facebook, Google, and Airbnb. The firm continues to leverage its extensive network to facilitate growth and innovation within the companies it invests in, aiming to foster a thriving startup ecosystem across the United States.

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Ronald Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Design

Block Renovation

Series C in 2021
Block Renovation is a home renovation platform that integrates design, construction labor, and materials to create a seamless renovation experience for homeowners and contractors. Founded by Koda Wang and Luke Sherwin, the company aims to simplify the often complex and confusing process of home renovations. By bringing design, sourcing, and project management together, Block Renovation provides homeowners with clarity on outcomes, quality, pricing, and timelines. This approach not only enhances the experience for homeowners looking to improve their living spaces but also offers a more efficient working method for contractors.

Underdog Fantasy

Series A in 2021
Developer of sports game designed for drafting football lineups. The company's game offers a fantasy football application for drafting football lineups, enabling users with an entertaining way of competing and earning rewards.

Castle

Seed Round in 2020
Castle operates an application to create and develop interactive cards. It offers a digital editor for designing and game development.

Underdog Fantasy

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of sports game designed for drafting football lineups. The company's game offers a fantasy football application for drafting football lineups, enabling users with an entertaining way of competing and earning rewards.

Aesthetic

Seed Round in 2020
Aesthetic is a full-service creative agency founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The agency specializes in tactical design services that support business growth across various industries, including consumer goods, biotechnology, and healthcare. Aesthetic offers a comprehensive range of services, including illustration, brand design, brand strategy, web design, copywriting, logo design, motion graphics, graphic design, animation, web development, and UI design. Notably, the agency has introduced a service called Branding Essentials, aimed at startups requiring rapid branding solutions within a four-day timeframe. By providing high-quality and thoughtful design services, Aesthetic makes effective branding accessible to companies of all sizes.

Cocoon

Seed Round in 2019
They work from a small studio space in the Mission District in San Francisco. Their office overlooks a serene garden courtyard that overflows into their space and changes throughout the seasons. Since they're constantly thinking about how to design amazing digital spaces for small groups, they take a lot of pride in their small physical space, too!

Block Renovation

Seed Round in 2018
Block Renovation is a home renovation platform that integrates design, construction labor, and materials to create a seamless renovation experience for homeowners and contractors. Founded by Koda Wang and Luke Sherwin, the company aims to simplify the often complex and confusing process of home renovations. By bringing design, sourcing, and project management together, Block Renovation provides homeowners with clarity on outcomes, quality, pricing, and timelines. This approach not only enhances the experience for homeowners looking to improve their living spaces but also offers a more efficient working method for contractors.

Aesthetic

Seed Round in 2018
Aesthetic is a full-service creative agency founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The agency specializes in tactical design services that support business growth across various industries, including consumer goods, biotechnology, and healthcare. Aesthetic offers a comprehensive range of services, including illustration, brand design, brand strategy, web design, copywriting, logo design, motion graphics, graphic design, animation, web development, and UI design. Notably, the agency has introduced a service called Branding Essentials, aimed at startups requiring rapid branding solutions within a four-day timeframe. By providing high-quality and thoughtful design services, Aesthetic makes effective branding accessible to companies of all sizes.

Thunkable

Venture Round in 2018
From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You can use the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or send them to friends!

Pagedraw

Seed Round in 2018
Pagedraw develops software that helps designers in turning drawings and mock-ups of websites into working software codes. It input drawings and gives semantic and production ready codes as outputs. Pagedraw was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dyspatch

Series A in 2017
Dyspatch is an email production platform that assists enterprise organizations in efficiently creating and managing transactional and triggered emails. By centralizing the processes of template creation, approval, and publishing, Dyspatch enhances the speed and effectiveness of email production. The platform features a powerful API, a visual editor, and built-in device testing, allowing users to build engaging and interactive emails without the need for coding. It supports collaboration among teams, facilitates template localization, and provides preview options across various email clients and devices. Additionally, Dyspatch integrates with existing email service providers, enabling businesses to streamline and scale their email workflows while ensuring consistency in branding and compliance.

Launchkit

Venture Round in 2016
Launchkit is a company focused on developing mobile applications and providing valuable tools for mobile app creators. Over the past two years, their team has successfully launched seven apps on the App Store and five on Google Play. In addition to their app development efforts, Launchkit shares insights and resources to assist other developers, such as guides on live user testing and best practices for requesting iOS permissions. They have also created tools like Screenshotter, which helps manage screenshots for iOS devices and has been downloaded over 25,000 times, and Sketch To App Store, a template that streamlines the preparation of app screenshots, gaining significant recognition on platforms like Product Hunt and GitHub. By consistently offering useful tools and resources, Launchkit aims to support the mobile development community and enhance the app creation process.

Thunkable

Seed Round in 2016
From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You can use the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or send them to friends!

Dyspatch

Seed Round in 2014
Dyspatch is an email production platform that assists enterprise organizations in efficiently creating and managing transactional and triggered emails. By centralizing the processes of template creation, approval, and publishing, Dyspatch enhances the speed and effectiveness of email production. The platform features a powerful API, a visual editor, and built-in device testing, allowing users to build engaging and interactive emails without the need for coding. It supports collaboration among teams, facilitates template localization, and provides preview options across various email clients and devices. Additionally, Dyspatch integrates with existing email service providers, enabling businesses to streamline and scale their email workflows while ensuring consistency in branding and compliance.

Strikingly

Seed Round in 2014
Strikingly, Inc. is a website development platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. It enables users, particularly small businesses and individuals, to create mobile-optimized websites without requiring any coding or design skills. Strikingly adopts a "mobile first, web second" approach, ensuring that its websites are fully optimized for smartphones, tablets, and desktops while allowing users to manage a single online presence. The platform offers pre-designed templates and layouts to streamline the website-building process, significantly reducing the time and effort involved. Strikingly generates revenue primarily through premium subscriptions, which provide users with benefits such as custom domain connections and the removal of platform branding.

Dyspatch

Seed Round in 2014
Dyspatch is an email production platform that assists enterprise organizations in efficiently creating and managing transactional and triggered emails. By centralizing the processes of template creation, approval, and publishing, Dyspatch enhances the speed and effectiveness of email production. The platform features a powerful API, a visual editor, and built-in device testing, allowing users to build engaging and interactive emails without the need for coding. It supports collaboration among teams, facilitates template localization, and provides preview options across various email clients and devices. Additionally, Dyspatch integrates with existing email service providers, enabling businesses to streamline and scale their email workflows while ensuring consistency in branding and compliance.

Overlay Studio

Seed Round in 2013
Studio is a social design platform that allows users to browse and remix designs from other users. It provides an application that lets users browse, remix designs, add layers to photos that enable users to beautify their photographs.

Snaplion

Seed Round in 2013
Snaplion designs and creates customized Android and iPhone applications.

Strikingly

Seed Round in 2013
Strikingly, Inc. is a website development platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. It enables users, particularly small businesses and individuals, to create mobile-optimized websites without requiring any coding or design skills. Strikingly adopts a "mobile first, web second" approach, ensuring that its websites are fully optimized for smartphones, tablets, and desktops while allowing users to manage a single online presence. The platform offers pre-designed templates and layouts to streamline the website-building process, significantly reducing the time and effort involved. Strikingly generates revenue primarily through premium subscriptions, which provide users with benefits such as custom domain connections and the removal of platform branding.

DailyLook

Seed Round in 2013
DailyLook, Inc. is an online fashion retailer based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1998. The company specializes in providing a premium personal styling experience by offering a curated selection of trendy clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories for women. Its product range includes various garments such as blazers, dresses, denim wear, outerwear, and tops, as well as footwear like boots and sandals. DailyLook's unique approach involves professional stylists who handpick outfits tailored to individual body shapes, preferences, and lifestyles, allowing customers to try on the curated looks at home. With the convenience of free shipping both ways, customers can purchase what they love and return the rest, simplifying the shopping process while promoting self-expression through fashion.

Lift

Series A in 2012
Lift is a virtual web design and development company with a focus on user experience design, second screen apps, and WordPress development. Co-founded by designer Chris Wallace and entrepreneur Brad Miller, Lift works primarily with large television networks building second-screen applications for tv shows Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Bridezillas, and others. Founded in 2009, Lift originally focused on building WordPress websites for small businesses and blog networks. In 2010, Lift redesigned and developed TheNextWeb.com, releasing the new website live at The Next Web conference, showcasing a tight integration with the newly-released Facebook API and a unique widget-driven homepage, allowing readers to customize their news page with a drag-and-drog interface. In 2011, Lift developed The Walking Dead StorySync® for AMC tv, helping draw millions of viewers and winning two Social TV Award for Best Mobile Phone, iPad or Tablet Social TV Application. Also in 2011, Lift led the redesign of IFC.com, bring responsive design to the world of television networks.

LayerVault

Seed Round in 2012
LayerVault Inc. develops software solutions tailored for designers, offering a cloud-based application that allows users to store, track, review, and deliver their design work. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, the platform provides a simple version control system specifically designed for the needs of freelancers and teams of all sizes. LayerVault's service facilitates collaboration and versioning, making it a trusted tool among various organizations, including well-known companies like Twitter, Pinterest, and the BBC. In addition to its software offerings, LayerVault operates Designer News, a prominent online community for designers, which has spurred the development of various applications through its robust API.

Dojo

Seed Round in 2012
Dojo lets Facebook fan page admins easily create sweepstakes, bonus coupons, welcome tab and more.

ED01

Seed Round in 2011
ED01 (formerly Edition01) is a product development and distribution platform that's changing how brands, designers and retailers work together. ED01 develops limited edition collection and launches new product categories for a fast growing client-network of designers, brands, celebrity figures and retailers. ED01 then wholesales the collection to a growing list of international retailers. ED01.com: As the E-Commerce Destination for Design Collaborations, ED01 offers powerful branding and distribution opportunities.
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