SV Angel

SV Angel, established in 2009 and based in San Francisco, is an investment firm that supports early-stage entrepreneurs. They provide business development, financing, M&A, and strategic advice to help startups navigate key inflection points and accelerate growth. SV Angel invests primarily in software-focused companies across the United States, with a typical investment size ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. They differentiate themselves by investing in a higher volume of companies, often over 100 per year, compared to traditional venture capital firms.

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Ronald Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Search Engine

Conntour

Seed Round in 2025
Conntour specializes in providing AI-driven security video management systems for governments and businesses. Their platform employs advanced AI to enhance surveillance capabilities, offering features such as natural language processing for intuitive camera control, real-time analytics for threat detection, and seamless integration with existing security infrastructure. This enables organizations to optimize their security operations, respond more efficiently to incidents, and reduce manual monitoring efforts.

Ciro

Seed Round in 2022
Ciro operates a sales search engine platform tailored for sales teams, particularly those targeting small to medium-sized businesses and local enterprises. The platform automates labor-intensive tasks, allowing teams to enhance their productivity and increase revenue. By providing timely business alerts—such as updates on software subscriptions, new hires, and social media activity—Ciro enables sales teams to streamline their workflows, significantly reducing research time. The platform utilizes a combination of specialized web crawlers and a data ingestion engine that aggregates numerous public and proprietary data sources. This comprehensive approach assists companies in building prospect lists, deploying marketing data effectively, and ultimately closing more sales.

Feathery

Seed Round in 2021
Feathery provides a low-code platform that facilitates the creation of customizable forms and user journeys, catering to critical industries such as insurance, financial services, and healthcare. The platform enables product teams to build data intake workflows with ease, offering features such as automatic deployment and SEO indexing. By supporting popular search engines and JavaScript frameworks, Feathery enhances the user experience while granting businesses greater ownership, speed, and control over their data collection processes. This streamlined approach allows organizations to effectively manage their data intake needs while maintaining flexibility and efficiency.

Metaphor

Seed Round in 2020
Metaphor is a search and discovery platform tailored for data scientists, data engineers, and AI practitioners. It facilitates better understanding and management of data through a comprehensive metadata knowledge graph. The platform integrates technical metadata with behavioral and social metadata, enabling users to easily access and leverage open-source projects. By streamlining the data discovery process, Metaphor aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of its users in navigating complex data landscapes.

You.com

Series A in 2020
You.com is an innovative AI-powered search engine founded by leading AI researchers. It utilizes a Large Language Model to generate personalized, human-like responses to user queries. The platform features various AI tools, including YouChat, YouCode, YouWrite, and YouImagine, which assist users in web searches, content creation, image generation, and code development. Emphasizing data privacy, You.com delivers real-time results and concise summaries while filtering out irrelevant information, fake reviews, and advertisements. This focus on efficiency enables users to access accurate information quickly, enhancing productivity and streamlining complex research tasks.

Neeva

Series A in 2020
Neeva, Inc. is a software as a service (SaaS) company that operates an ad-free, private search engine designed to help users find relevant online content and personal files, such as emails and documents. Founded in 2019 and based in Mountain View, California, Neeva aims to provide a personalized search experience by integrating cloud services and delivering tailored results without the distractions of advertisements. The company was previously known as Anamika Inc. and rebranded to Neeva, Inc. in March 2019. Its platform emphasizes user privacy and effectiveness in information retrieval.

Miso

Seed Round in 2019
Miso is a company that specializes in providing quality home services in South Korea through its mobile applications for iOS and Android. The platform connects users with verified cleaners and offers a range of services, including home cleaning, moving, installation, repair, flooring, relocation, and interior design. Miso enhances the customer experience by implementing a rating system and convenient payment options, ensuring that users receive hotel-like cleaning services in their homes. In addition to its home service offerings, Miso provides search and recommendations APIs that empower businesses to create personalized online experiences. Utilizing semantic intelligence and real-time clickstream analysis, Miso's technology enables companies to increase revenue significantly while ensuring user privacy through anonymous personalization.

Golden

Seed Round in 2019
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge platform designed to aggregate information from various public and private sources, creating a comprehensive repository. The platform offers structured representations of entities and topics, facilitating easy access to detailed information through a powerful search capability. By utilizing natural language processing, it interprets user queries, enabling researchers and academics to find relevant information efficiently. Additionally, Golden enhances collaboration and operational efficiency by providing semi-automatic research assistance that identifies knowledge gaps, allowing users to stay informed about the latest trends in their respective industries. Through the integration of human effort and machine intelligence, Golden simplifies the process of gathering and communicating knowledge.

Golden

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge platform designed to aggregate information from various public and private sources, creating a comprehensive repository. The platform offers structured representations of entities and topics, facilitating easy access to detailed information through a powerful search capability. By utilizing natural language processing, it interprets user queries, enabling researchers and academics to find relevant information efficiently. Additionally, Golden enhances collaboration and operational efficiency by providing semi-automatic research assistance that identifies knowledge gaps, allowing users to stay informed about the latest trends in their respective industries. Through the integration of human effort and machine intelligence, Golden simplifies the process of gathering and communicating knowledge.

Teleport

Seed Round in 2014
Teleport, established in 1987 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software that assists digital nomads in finding the most suitable places to live and work. Its platform matches users with locations worldwide based on their income, expenses, and personal preferences, helping them make informed decisions about relocating to save time and money. Teleport was formerly a subsidiary of OneMain.com, Inc., and as of 2017, it operates under MOVE Guides Limited.

Hey

Seed Round in 2013
Hey Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco that develops Heyday, an automatic journaling application designed to help users document and remember their life experiences. Founded in 2012, Heyday allows individuals to effortlessly track the places they visit, the activities they engage in, and the people they spend time with. The application automatically captures photos and organizes them into visually appealing collages, which can be customized with various layouts and filters. This innovative platform enhances users' ability to rediscover meaningful moments from their past by enabling them to search their memories by time, place, and people. Through its user-friendly interface, Heyday aims to enrich the storytelling of individual lives by preserving memories beautifully and privately.

Swiftype

Seed Round in 2013
Swiftype, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise search platform and software for websites and applications. Founded in 2011, Swiftype offers a suite of products, including Site Search and Enterprise Search, which enable users to customize their search experiences. The platform allows organizations to index content from various cloud data sources, facilitating efficient data discovery and organization. Swiftype serves a diverse range of clients, including notable brands such as AT&T, Shopify, and Dr. Pepper, and has raised $23 million in funding from investors like NEA and Y Combinator. As of 2017, Swiftype operates as a subsidiary of Elastic B.V.

Jelly HQ

Series A in 2013
Jelly HQ is a technology company that offers a human-powered discovery and search engine focused on image-based queries. Founded in April 2013 by Biz Stone and Ben Finkel, Jelly allows users to ask questions by uploading photos, leveraging social networks to facilitate responses. The platform is designed to connect individuals and utilize a loosely distributed network of people to provide answers, resembling the decentralized neural structure of a jellyfish, which serves as the company's emblem. Through this innovative approach, Jelly aims to enhance the way users seek information and interact with their social circles.

Elastic

Series B in 2013
Elastic is a technology company that develops and distributes the Elastic Stack, an open-source suite of products including Elasticsearch, a distributed search and analytics engine, along with Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. The company also offers X-Pack, a commercial plugin for the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a family of SaaS offerings. With over 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's products are used by thousands of organizations worldwide for search, logging, metrics, and security use cases. Backed by prominent investors, Elastic has a distributed workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries.

Ark

Seed Round in 2012
Ark.com, Inc., founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a search engine service that enables users to find individuals across various social networks. The platform allows users to search for old classmates, new business contacts, and friends by utilizing multiple search filters, including location, employer, schools, and interests. This service is designed to provide users with comprehensive information about people, facilitating connections in a straightforward manner. By streamlining the process of discovering contacts, Ark enhances users' ability to network and reconnect with others effortlessly.

Moat

Series B in 2012
Moat, Inc. develops analytics solutions tailored for brand advertisers and publishers, focusing on measuring customer attention and advertising effectiveness. Its flagship product, Moat Analytics, serves as an attention measurement platform that offers insights into ad campaigns and website inventory. Additionally, Moat Pro provides real-time ad intelligence, allowing users to visualize relationships between brands, publishers, and programmatic platforms, while offering brand alerts and prospecting reports. Moat also features a dedicated ad search engine that enables users to search for display ads, discover new advertisers, and access creative resources. This centralized ad search utilizes a specialized web crawler to index ads for easy retrieval. Established in 2007 and based in New York, Moat operates internationally and is a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

Swiftype

Seed Round in 2012
Swiftype, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise search platform and software for websites and applications. Founded in 2011, Swiftype offers a suite of products, including Site Search and Enterprise Search, which enable users to customize their search experiences. The platform allows organizations to index content from various cloud data sources, facilitating efficient data discovery and organization. Swiftype serves a diverse range of clients, including notable brands such as AT&T, Shopify, and Dr. Pepper, and has raised $23 million in funding from investors like NEA and Y Combinator. As of 2017, Swiftype operates as a subsidiary of Elastic B.V.

Moat

Series A in 2011
Moat, Inc. develops analytics solutions tailored for brand advertisers and publishers, focusing on measuring customer attention and advertising effectiveness. Its flagship product, Moat Analytics, serves as an attention measurement platform that offers insights into ad campaigns and website inventory. Additionally, Moat Pro provides real-time ad intelligence, allowing users to visualize relationships between brands, publishers, and programmatic platforms, while offering brand alerts and prospecting reports. Moat also features a dedicated ad search engine that enables users to search for display ads, discover new advertisers, and access creative resources. This centralized ad search utilizes a specialized web crawler to index ads for easy retrieval. Established in 2007 and based in New York, Moat operates internationally and is a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

Yext

Series D in 2011
Yext is a digital presence platform designed for multi-location brands, enabling them to manage their online information consistently and accurately across various digital channels. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, Yext's platform allows businesses to structure and control the facts about their brands in a database called a Knowledge Graph. This structured data powers direct answers on a business' own website and across a network of approximately 175 third-party services, including maps, apps, search engines, GPS systems, digital assistants, directories, and social networks. Yext's AI and machine learning technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights for data-driven decisions. The company serves industries such as healthcare, retail, and financial services, helping brands deliver engaging experiences to customers across the digital world.

Rockmelt

Series B in 2011
Rockmelt is a social web browser developed on the Chromium platform, offering seamless integration with major social media networks, particularly Facebook and Twitter. The browser features a unique interface known as "Edges," which displays online friends and followed feeds with real-time update notifications. Rockmelt distinguishes itself with a dedicated search field that presents comprehensive search results in a dropdown format, enhancing user experience by allowing quick navigation between results from a single query. Additionally, the browser includes its own URL shortener, me.lt. It is compatible with both Windows and OS X operating systems. Rockmelt is supported by prominent figures in the tech industry, including Marc Andreessen and principal engineer Robert John Churchill, known for his previous work on Netscape Navigator.

TalentBin

Seed Round in 2010
TalentBin is a talent search engine designed to assist technical recruiters and hiring managers in locating passive candidates. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform offers access to a comprehensive candidate database that includes detailed information on candidates' professional and personal interests, as well as their contact information and social media profiles. Additionally, TalentBin provides organizational tools that help recruiters manage their hiring processes through notes, task management, and reminders. The service effectively transforms the web into a valuable resource for talent acquisition, enabling recruiters to enhance their search capabilities and streamline the recruitment process.

Cue

Seed Round in 2010
Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that helps people make the most of their day. Cue intelligently ties together and surfaces useful information at the right time from the accounts they use most, including email, contacts, and calendar. People can see their entire day at a glance or simultaneously search across all of their accounts with Cue.

Chomp

Series A in 2010
Chomp, Inc., founded in 2009 by Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards, is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in app search technology. Its innovative platform enables users to find applications based on their functionalities rather than just their names, addressing the challenges posed by the overwhelming number of apps available for download. Chomp employs a patent-pending algorithm that effectively matches user needs with app capabilities, enhancing the search experience for consumers. Additionally, the company assists developers in integrating app search features into their content. Chomp's technology supports search functionalities for various clients, including major companies like Verizon and 148Apps.com. In February 2012, Chomp was acquired by Apple, further solidifying its impact on the app discovery landscape.

Milo

Series A in 2009
Milo.com is a free Web site that enables shoppers to research products online and buy local, providing the best of both worlds. The leader in the local product search space, Milo.com tracks the real-time availability and prices of more than 2 million products at over 48,000 stores across the U.S. By combining the resources of the Web and the immediacy of local stores, Milo.com makes it easy for shoppers to research the best products, find the right prices and check where products are available near them. Shoppers save time and money, get to see and try products before they buy them and get the product they want right when they want it. Retailers with products listed on Milo.com can better compete with e-commerce and can use the Site to drive valuable intent-based foot traffic into their stores. Based in [Palo Alto, Calif.](/maps/city/Palo%2520Alto), Milo.com boasts leadership from [comScore](/organization/comscore) and [Google](/organization/google), and is backed by [True Ventures](/financial-organization/true-ventures) and prominent Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs from [Mint.com](/organization/mint), [PayPal](/organization/paypal), [Yelp](/organization/yelp), [YouTube](/organization/youtube), and others.

Chomp

Seed Round in 2009
Chomp, Inc., founded in 2009 by Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards, is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in app search technology. Its innovative platform enables users to find applications based on their functionalities rather than just their names, addressing the challenges posed by the overwhelming number of apps available for download. Chomp employs a patent-pending algorithm that effectively matches user needs with app capabilities, enhancing the search experience for consumers. Additionally, the company assists developers in integrating app search features into their content. Chomp's technology supports search functionalities for various clients, including major companies like Verizon and 148Apps.com. In February 2012, Chomp was acquired by Apple, further solidifying its impact on the app discovery landscape.

Rockmelt

Series A in 2009
Rockmelt is a social web browser developed on the Chromium platform, offering seamless integration with major social media networks, particularly Facebook and Twitter. The browser features a unique interface known as "Edges," which displays online friends and followed feeds with real-time update notifications. Rockmelt distinguishes itself with a dedicated search field that presents comprehensive search results in a dropdown format, enhancing user experience by allowing quick navigation between results from a single query. Additionally, the browser includes its own URL shortener, me.lt. It is compatible with both Windows and OS X operating systems. Rockmelt is supported by prominent figures in the tech industry, including Marc Andreessen and principal engineer Robert John Churchill, known for his previous work on Netscape Navigator.

Aardvark

Series A in 2008
Aardvark, originally known as Mechanical Zoo, is a social search engine founded by former Google employees. Launched in 2008, it enables users to ask questions and receive answers from their extended social networks, utilizing instant messaging and email for inquiries. The platform distributes questions to contacts based on their expertise and interests, ensuring users receive quick and relevant responses. Aardvark focuses on facilitating meaningful interactions, particularly for queries related to personal tastes in music, books, movies, and restaurants. The service leverages the knowledge within a user's network to provide high-quality answers efficiently.

Blekko

Series A in 2007
Blekko is a search company established in 2007 by Rich Skrenta and a team from Topix and Netscape's Open Directory. The company offers a web search engine and a mobile application that enables users to filter search results based on specific categories. Additionally, Blekko operates a social news platform to enhance the search experience, allowing users to find relevant information more efficiently. The company has garnered investment from Baseline Ventures and several former Google employees.

Like.com

Series A in 2005
Like.com is a visual search engine that enables users to find and compare consumer products online using advanced image recognition technology. Unlike traditional search engines, Like.com indexes images based on their visual characteristics rather than relying solely on metadata and tags. Users can discover similar products, such as shoes, bags, watches, and clothing, by either selecting items displayed on the platform or by entering descriptive phrases. The system translates these descriptions into mathematical representations known as visual signatures, which consist of thousands of variables. This innovative approach allows for a more intuitive shopping experience, as users can find products without the need for specific search terms. Future developments for Like.com include the ability for users to upload images to initiate searches, further enhancing the platform's functionality and expanding the range of products that can be found online.
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