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 Developer Tools

Replit

Series B in 2023
Repl.it lets you start coding in your favorite programming language in 2 seconds; it lets you build and deploy apps right from your browser. The founders wanted to build something to solve their own problem -- back in school they were tired of setting up their development environment on every machine they wanted to code on, and they dreamed of a world where you could just open a tab in the browser and start working. They built Repl.it to give developers access to simple, powerful tools and a community of hackers, aspiring programmers and teachers. They make it possible to learn, practice and build, all in the same place.

Magical

Series A in 2022
Developer of a text expander software designed to perform repetitive tasks. The company's platform helps to format shortcuts with ease, tag them to find when required as well as does not collect or store keystrokes along with inserting snippets of text, such as words, emojis, phrases, or paragraphs only by typing in a custom abbreviation, enabling businesses to stay productive anywhere on the internet.

Vercel

Series D in 2021
Vercel Inc. is a cloud platform that specializes in on-demand deployment, hosting, and sharing services for frontend applications. Founded in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, the company provides automated deployment solutions integrated with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, allowing projects to be deployed seamlessly from pull requests and merge requests. Vercel's platform is designed to enhance the development and deployment experience for frontend teams by hosting static websites and serverless functions that align with the Jamstack deployment model. This model ensures that web pages are pre-rendered and can be efficiently served by a content delivery network, delivering optimal performance for developers. Vercel was formerly known as ZEIT, Inc. before rebranding in April 2020.

Fig

Seed Round in 2021
Fig is a platform for developers that adds visual apps and shortcuts to the terminal. It makes it easy to build tools that make the team more productive. Fig's API allows to run shell commands from simple javascript. Build wrappers around CLIs, custom workflows, or configurations. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Serverless Stack

Seed Round in 2021
We are creating SST, the easiest way to build serverless applications. SST is an open source framework for serverless that allows you to make changes and test your Lambda functions live. We are also authors of the most widely read resource for building serverless applications.

Plato

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a low-code platform designed to help developers build software extensions. The company's platform specializes in building live applications via clever spreadsheets, enabling companies to customize their tools to outstrip what their engineers can supply.

Mirror

Series A in 2021
Developer of a web3-native publishing platform designed to power the next generation of creators, communities and decentralized autonomous organizations. The company's platform specializes in expanding the toolkit to support community management, governance tools, dynamic tokens and non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces and help creators connect with their target audiences more directly and innovatively, enabling users to publish posts, launch tokens and crowdfunds, create and sell NFTs and use governance and community tools within a tightly integrated web3 product.

Rome

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of compiling software designed to bundle various software programming languages. The company's software unifies functionality, builds upon a shared base, and minimizes configurations, enabling developers with a cohesive experience for processing codes, displaying errors, parallelizing work, and caching.

Pyroscope

Seed Round in 2021
Pyroscope is a developer of an open-source continuous profiling platform that assists users in monitoring and debugging applications and APIs. The platform simplifies the identification of performance issues and bottlenecks in code through a user-friendly interface that requires minimal code integration. It provides tools for code editing, debugging, and sampling profiling, allowing developers to optimize application performance effectively. Additionally, Pyroscope enables users to create custom data storage engines for storing and analyzing profiling data, enhancing overall development efficiency.

Airplane

Series A in 2021
Developer of a cloud-based platform intended to help engineers build internal tools that power recurring workflows within the organization. The company helps to transform scripts, SQL queries, and other functions into enterprise-grade apps for the entire team, enabling clients to save time by focusing on the core backend logic of the operations.

Specto

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a monitoring platform designed to assist in performance monitoring and management in the cloud. The company's platform monitors mobile applications' performance and provides information regarding how and why the application is performing in a certain way, on their proprietary dashboard, enabling modern businesses to have access to a technology that combines data analysis with domain knowledge to determine the root causes of issues and provide clients with readily actionable insights to help improve the performance of the mobile applications.

Canvas

Seed Round in 2020
Canvas makes data teams spend less time on SQL favors and dashboard maintenance.

Canvas

Seed Round in 2020
Canvas makes data teams spend less time on SQL favors and dashboard maintenance.

Splitgraph

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of an integrated data catalog software designed to combine data sources into reproducible data images. The company's indexes offer diverse data sources, including both live databases and versioned data snapshots which help users to connect to the data delivery network and build versioned datasets from data, enabling data scientists and engineers to create, share and extend datasets in a simple and reproducible way.

Fig

Seed Round in 2020
Fig is a platform for developers that adds visual apps and shortcuts to the terminal. It makes it easy to build tools that make the team more productive. Fig's API allows to run shell commands from simple javascript. Build wrappers around CLIs, custom workflows, or configurations. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Replit

Series A in 2020
Repl.it lets you start coding in your favorite programming language in 2 seconds; it lets you build and deploy apps right from your browser. The founders wanted to build something to solve their own problem -- back in school they were tired of setting up their development environment on every machine they wanted to code on, and they dreamed of a world where you could just open a tab in the browser and start working. They built Repl.it to give developers access to simple, powerful tools and a community of hackers, aspiring programmers and teachers. They make it possible to learn, practice and build, all in the same place.

Cycle

Seed Round in 2019
Cycle is a developer of a versatile platform designed to support product-centric teams in managing their workflows effectively. The platform features flexible building blocks that allow for customization, enabling teams to adapt their work processes to their specific needs. Cycle's comprehensive toolset includes functionalities for workflow management, feedback management, custom forms, prioritization matrices, and customer support. It also facilitates team integration, multiplayer editing, and real-time engagement, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration among team members. By connecting customer needs with product delivery workflows, Cycle empowers teams to explore, prioritize, plan, deliver, and communicate more efficiently, ultimately aiding in the development of products that meet market demands.

Mightyapp

Seed Round in 2019
Mighty makes Google Chrome faster & use 10x less memory.Mighty speeds up Chrome on your laptop by streaming it from a more powerful computer in the cloud—that makes your browser & other apps run significantly faster.

Specto

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a monitoring platform designed to assist in performance monitoring and management in the cloud. The company's platform monitors mobile applications' performance and provides information regarding how and why the application is performing in a certain way, on their proprietary dashboard, enabling modern businesses to have access to a technology that combines data analysis with domain knowledge to determine the root causes of issues and provide clients with readily actionable insights to help improve the performance of the mobile applications.

Dagger

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of program delivery platform designed to provide programmable backend service. The company's platform integrates existing build, continuous integration (CI), infrastructure management, and deployment tools into a streamlined delivery platform, allowing developers to customize every aspect of deployment by ignoring the complexity and deploying with a simple command.

Retool

Series A in 2019
Retool is a developer of a platform that enables businesses to create custom tools without the need for programming knowledge. The platform allows users to build interfaces that facilitate the display and manipulation of data efficiently and accurately. By providing customizable workflows, Retool empowers operational development teams to enhance their productivity, enabling businesses to concentrate on their core products and expertise. This approach simplifies the tool-building process, making it accessible to a broader range of users and helping organizations streamline their operations.

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.

Sendwithus

Series A in 2017
Dyspatch, the product by Sendwithus, is a cloud-based, communications management platform that allows Enterprise organizations to centralize email security, compliance, and reputation management while streamlining collaborative creation, revision, and approval workflows. The GDPR-compliant solution empowers teams to deliver powerful, global communications that engage customers, drive growth, and increase revenue. Sendwithus has been helping leading brands craft exceptional communications experiences since 2013.

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.

Maker

Seed Round in 2017
Maker Inc. is a creative platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, that assists online retailers and brands in enhancing their websites with engaging content. Established in 2011, the company offers a comprehensive suite of design, web-publishing, and analytics tools within a single interface. This enables users to create, source, publish, and optimize interactive content for various applications, including product pages, landing pages, and blog posts, without the need for coding or significant development costs. By enriching existing websites with more dynamic and engaging content, Maker aims to significantly boost user engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth for its clients.

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.

Navigator

Series A in 2016
Navigator is a teamwork assistant for busy leaders. It helps teams work together by guiding them through an ever-growing collection of best practices, drawn from the research of scholars and experts, as well as their team’s experience working at Apple, IDEO, Stanford’s d.School, and MIT’s Media lab.

Expo

Convertible Note in 2016
Expo lets developers build universal native apps that work across Android, iOS, and the web by writing them once in just JavaScript.

Kite

Seed Round in 2016
Kite develops an artificial intelligence plugin to help developers to code faster. The company offers Kite, a plugin for IDE that uses machine learning to give developers useful code completions for Python. Its solutions include Kite for Atom, PyCharm, Sublime, Vim, and VS Code. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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!

Kimono Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Kimono is a way to turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. You don't need to write any code or install any software to extract data with Kimono. The easiest way to use Kimono is to add our bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. Then go to the website you want to get data from and click the bookmarklet. Select the data you want and Kimono does the rest.

Styra

Seed Round in 2015
Styra, Inc. develops a clod tool for security and compliance. It offers Styra Declarative Authorization Service, a solution that provides context-based admission control policy to mitigate risks, reduce human errors, and accelerate Kubernetes deployments. The company’s solution is also used for policy design and validation, policy distribution, policy monitoring and auditing, Compliance-as-Code, and shift security. Its solutions include applications, multi-cloud, micro services, containers, databases, and servers. Styra, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Bowery

Seed Round in 2014
Bowery makes web development easier. Bowery aims to save programmers time-intensive, repetitive tasks such as setting up coding environments so they more quickly begin working. Although virtualization software enables developers to skip some steps by mirroring developer environments of a team across multiple desktops.

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.

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.

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.

Trigger.io

Seed Round in 2012
Trigger.io is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a cross-platform mobile development framework specifically designed for web developers aiming to create native mobile applications. Its application development platform leverages an HTML5 operating system, enabling efficient interaction between companies and their customers through digital media. The platform is regularly updated to address bugs, which helps reduce data consumption, allowing developers to build native mobile applications more swiftly and effectively. By focusing on enhancing the development process, Trigger.io provides a valuable solution for businesses looking to engage with their audiences through mobile technology.

Parse

Seed Round in 2011
Parse is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in cloud-based software developer kits designed for app development across desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its product offerings include Parse Core, which allows users to save data in the cloud, integrate social features, run custom code, and manage tasks such as sending engagement emails and updating data. Additionally, Parse provides Parse Push, a tool for creating and scheduling push notifications, and Parse Analytics, which helps developers identify and resolve crashes, measure app usage, and optimize push campaigns. As a subsidiary of Facebook, Parse continues to support app developers with its comprehensive suite of tools.

AppHarbor

Seed Round in 2011
AppHarbor is a .NET Platform-as-a-Service. Developers push code to AppHarbor using either Git or Mercurial. AppHarbor then builds the code and runs any unit tests. If everything checks out, the code is deployed to AppHarbor's scalable cloud platform. AppHarbor lets developers spend their time coming up with ideas and developing applications, not patching servers, worrying about deployment, messing with configuration files, or scaling.

Kite

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Kite develops an artificial intelligence plugin to help developers to code faster. The company offers Kite, a plugin for IDE that uses machine learning to give developers useful code completions for Python. Its solutions include Kite for Atom, PyCharm, Sublime, Vim, and VS Code. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tasty Labs

Series A in 2010
Tasty Labs is a startup founded by the founder of Delicious, Joshua Schachter, and ex googler Paul Rademacher and former Mozilla Director of Add-Ons, Nick Nguyen. Tasty Labs goal is to try and put "the useful back into social software".

Leftronic

Seed Round in 2010
[Leftronic](http://www.leftronic.com) is a [Y Combinator](/organization/ycombinator)-funded company that develops a web-based real-time dashboard application for monitoring a company's most important data. Leftronic business dashboards retrieve a company's metrics from popular services such as Google Analytics, Twitter, Zendesk and others, as well as receive custom metrics through a super-simple API. The dashboards update in real-time and are designed for large screens. This makes it easy for teams to monitor their company's critical metrics.

Chartbeat

Series A in 2010
Chartbeat Inc. is a content intelligence platform that provides software tools designed to help publishers and media organizations build and sustain loyal audiences. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a suite of audience-building tools that leverage real-time and historical analytics to enhance engagement across various platforms, including desktop, social media, and mobile. Chartbeat's services enable clients to track visitor behavior, traffic sources, and social network interactions, providing insights into content performance. The platform also alerts users to website issues, such as crashes or slow load times, ensuring optimal user experience. By delivering critical insights and analytics, Chartbeat assists media businesses in increasing audience growth, enhancing subscriber revenue, and optimizing editorial workflows.

TweetDeck

Series B in 2010
TweetDeck is a Twitter client designed for desktop, web, and mobile platforms, originally created as an Adobe Air application. It features a distinctive columned user interface that allows users to monitor and organize their Twitter feeds efficiently. By breaking down the main feed into manageable columns, users can focus on specific topics or groups, enhancing their ability to track real-time information and engage with content. In 2011, TweetDeck was acquired by Twitter and subsequently rebuilt using HTML5 technology, which further improved its functionality and accessibility across devices. The application integrates various social media services, providing a comprehensive tool for users to manage their online interactions seamlessly.

Thing Labs

Series A in 2009
Thing Labs is a company that develops web-based software designed to facilitate the creation, sharing, exploration, and enjoyment of content. Founded by Jason Shellen, who previously worked on Blogger and co-created Google Reader, Thing Labs is known for its products Brizzly and Plinky. The company focuses on providing user-friendly tools that enhance the online content experience.
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