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 Infrastructure

Modular

Seed Round in 2022
Modular is an AI software development platform aimed at simplifying the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence applications. The platform integrates various popular frameworks through common interfaces, enhancing usability and flexibility while ensuring compatibility across diverse hardware backends and cloud environments. This approach allows developers to adopt the tools seamlessly into their existing workflows without the need for extensive code modifications. By focusing on production-quality infrastructure and a straightforward user experience, Modular enables developers to save time and increase their productivity, ultimately streamlining the development process from edge to datacenter.

Graft

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Graft is a cloud-native platform that uses AI techniques to unlock the value of text, images, video, audio, and graphs. There is no requirement for machine learning skills, no need to hire a team, and no infrastructure to build or maintain.

Airbyte

Series B in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform enables users to automate data pipelines using pre-built or custom connectors, allowing for efficient data consolidation and analytics. By providing a flexible and user-friendly solution, Airbyte helps businesses effectively gather and manage their data, even from users who employ ad-blocking tools. This functionality supports a wide range of data-driven decision-making processes across different industries.

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.

Spruce

Seed Round in 2021
We are creating a suite of products around a WYSIWYG form builder called Intake that helps operations managers implement killer document collection and processing workflows. Passports can be fed to KYC verifiers, purchase orders can create approval requests, and DocuSign becomes a streamlined step in your onboarding flow. Files end up in predictable and safe places such as Box.com, and people can see where they are in your intake process if you enable their dashboards.

SST

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.

Instawork

Series C in 2021
Instawork operates an online job marketplace designed to connect hospitality businesses with qualified workers. The platform automates the recruitment process, allowing businesses to fill job shifts on demand while enabling professionals to choose work that fits their schedules. By streamlining traditional recruiting methods, Instawork creates economic opportunities for both local businesses and workers. The company is rapidly expanding its reach across the United States, focusing on meeting the evolving needs of the hospitality sector.

Airbyte

Series A in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform enables users to automate data pipelines using pre-built or custom connectors, allowing for efficient data consolidation and analytics. By providing a flexible and user-friendly solution, Airbyte helps businesses effectively gather and manage their data, even from users who employ ad-blocking tools. This functionality supports a wide range of data-driven decision-making processes across different industries.

Airbyte

Series A in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform enables users to automate data pipelines using pre-built or custom connectors, allowing for efficient data consolidation and analytics. By providing a flexible and user-friendly solution, Airbyte helps businesses effectively gather and manage their data, even from users who employ ad-blocking tools. This functionality supports a wide range of data-driven decision-making processes across different industries.

Weav

Seed Round in 2021
Weav is a fintech infrastructure company.

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.

Drata

Seed Round in 2021
Drata is a leading security and compliance automation platform designed to assist companies in achieving continuous compliance with service organization control standards. The platform features an autopilot system that automates control monitoring and evidence collection, which simplifies the process of preparing for audits, ultimately reducing both costs and time. By providing actionable insights, reports, alerts, and integrations with various software-as-a-service applications, Drata enables enterprises to build trust with their users, customers, partners, and prospects, facilitating secure business growth and accelerated sales.

Fly.io

Seed Round in 2020
Fly.io provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) designed to facilitate seamless connections between website owners and their customers. Utilizing a global network of servers, the company enables the efficient acceptance of visitor traffic, processes middleware on incoming requests, and securely routes them to backend applications. This structure allows website owners to direct their visitors to their sites with minimal effort. Additionally, Fly.io offers a JavaScript platform that empowers users to build application servers, allowing them to write, test, and run code locally before deploying it globally. This capability supports clients in scaling their applications effectively and running servers close to their user base.

Araali Networks

Seed Round in 2020
Microservices security done right—built-in, invisible, always on!

Grid.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Grid.ai, Inc. is a New York-based company that provides a platform designed to facilitate the training of artificial intelligence models using cloud-based graphics processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs) directly from users' laptops. Founded in 2019, Grid offers several tools, including Grid Train for model training and research iteration, Grid View for infrastructure management, and Tensorboard for experiment analysis. The platform is tailored to assist machine learning engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers by simplifying the complexities of scalable AI research, allowing users to concentrate on their projects without the need for extensive infrastructure management. By enabling companies of all sizes to leverage advanced AI capabilities effortlessly, Grid.ai aims to enhance productivity and innovation in AI development.

Evervault

Seed Round in 2019
Evervault Ltd. is a company that specializes in privacy-preserving cloud infrastructure. Established in 2017 and based in Dublin, Ireland, Evervault provides a solution that enables users to encrypt data at its source and process it in a secure environment known as a Cage. This approach ensures that information remains encrypted at all times and is never stored in an unencrypted format. By deploying applications within hardware-secured cages, Evervault prioritizes data security and privacy, offering a reliable option for businesses that require stringent protection of sensitive information.

Scope Security

Seed Round in 2019
Scope provides managed detection and response to protect hospitals, clinics and large provider systems from cyber attacks. We have custom-built our integrated technology and service platform to enable us to detect the complex attacks that the health care organizations are facing across their entire technology landscape

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. is a company focused on developing blockchain hardware and software for the decentralized internet. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, it operates Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that creates a marketplace for data storage by connecting users in need of file storage with hosts offering underutilized hard drive capacity. Utilizing blockchain technology, Sia enhances security and cost-effectiveness, enabling transactions through smart contracts without the need for intermediaries. In addition to Sia, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network and file-sharing platform designed for developers, and SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files, facilitating quick streaming. Through these initiatives, Nebulous aims to deliver a robust and economical alternative to traditional cloud storage providers.

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.

Instawork

Series B in 2019
Instawork operates an online job marketplace designed to connect hospitality businesses with qualified workers. The platform automates the recruitment process, allowing businesses to fill job shifts on demand while enabling professionals to choose work that fits their schedules. By streamlining traditional recruiting methods, Instawork creates economic opportunities for both local businesses and workers. The company is rapidly expanding its reach across the United States, focusing on meeting the evolving needs of the hospitality sector.

Quadric

Series A in 2019
quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing. It aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow’s technology, today. The company also designed to meet the powerful needs of next-level autonomous products, like self-driving cars and robots. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

Sia

Seed Round in 2019
Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.

Socotra

Series A in 2018
Socotra, Inc. is a technology company that offers a cloud-based platform designed specifically for the insurance industry. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Socotra provides a comprehensive software solution that includes policy administration, underwriting, claims management, billing, and reporting functionalities. The platform supports various insurance sectors, including property and casualty as well as life insurance. Built using modern technologies, Socotra’s platform is designed to be transparent, reliable, flexible, and secure, enabling insurance carriers and managing general agents to quickly develop and distribute products that meet customer needs. Its open APIs and product-agnostic data model facilitate the management of the entire policy lifecycle, promoting innovation within the insurance sector by enhancing speed, agility, and efficiency while reducing maintenance costs.

DFINITY

Venture Round in 2018
DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based in Zurich, Switzerland, established in 2016. It is dedicated to developing the Internet Computer, a groundbreaking platform that enhances the functionality of the internet by providing a public computing environment for developers and entrepreneurs. This platform allows for the creation and hosting of decentralized applications and services, promoting a new, open method for building websites and enterprise systems. DFINITY employs a decentralized protocol known as Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), which enables independent data centers worldwide to collaborate and deliver scalable, secure, and serverless cloud computing resources. The foundation operates research centers in several global locations, including Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Tokyo, and aims to restore the internet's original open nature, challenging the dominance of major tech companies. Through its innovative technologies and approach, DFINITY seeks to enhance the overall internet experience and empower users in the digital landscape.

Harbor

Series A in 2018
Harbor is reengineering private securities with blockchain technology to help usher in a new wave of tokenized securities backed by real-world assets, such as real estate, company equity, investment funds, and fine art. The Harbor platform, powered by its compliance protocol, is the first to ensure tokenized securities comply with existing securities laws on every trade, everywhere across the globe.

Buoyant

Series A in 2017
Buoyant, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by former Twitter infrastructure engineers. The company specializes in developing open-source software, particularly through its flagship product, Linkerd, which is an open-source network proxy designed to function as a service mesh. A service mesh enables efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within cloud-native applications. Buoyant's offerings aim to enhance the speed, security, and reliability of applications, supporting various hosting activities such as web hosting and application service provisioning. The company is well-funded and has garnered backing from prominent investors, striving to provide robust capabilities to organizations seeking to improve their application infrastructure.

Quadric

Seed Round in 2017
quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing. It aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow’s technology, today. The company also designed to meet the powerful needs of next-level autonomous products, like self-driving cars and robots. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

Fly.io

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Fly.io provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) designed to facilitate seamless connections between website owners and their customers. Utilizing a global network of servers, the company enables the efficient acceptance of visitor traffic, processes middleware on incoming requests, and securely routes them to backend applications. This structure allows website owners to direct their visitors to their sites with minimal effort. Additionally, Fly.io offers a JavaScript platform that empowers users to build application servers, allowing them to write, test, and run code locally before deploying it globally. This capability supports clients in scaling their applications effectively and running servers close to their user base.

Instawork

Seed Round in 2015
Instawork operates an online job marketplace designed to connect hospitality businesses with qualified workers. The platform automates the recruitment process, allowing businesses to fill job shifts on demand while enabling professionals to choose work that fits their schedules. By streamlining traditional recruiting methods, Instawork creates economic opportunities for both local businesses and workers. The company is rapidly expanding its reach across the United States, focusing on meeting the evolving needs of the hospitality sector.

Rescale

Venture Round in 2015
Rescale, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based infrastructure and software platforms that facilitate scientific and engineering simulations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers several products, including ScaleX Pro for independent professionals and small to medium-sized businesses, and ScaleX Developer, which allows external developers to build and deploy applications on Rescale's platform. Additionally, ScaleX Enterprise provides a comprehensive simulation solution that integrates on-premise high-performance computing resources and software management. Rescale serves various industries, including aerospace, automotive, consumer products, electronics, oil and gas, and life sciences, leveraging advanced technologies to empower engineers and scientists in their research and product development efforts. With a global presence that includes offices in Tokyo, Munich, and Singapore, Rescale continues to expand its role as a leading provider of cloud simulation services.

Buoyant

Venture Round in 2015
Buoyant, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by former Twitter infrastructure engineers. The company specializes in developing open-source software, particularly through its flagship product, Linkerd, which is an open-source network proxy designed to function as a service mesh. A service mesh enables efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within cloud-native applications. Buoyant's offerings aim to enhance the speed, security, and reliability of applications, supporting various hosting activities such as web hosting and application service provisioning. The company is well-funded and has garnered backing from prominent investors, striving to provide robust capabilities to organizations seeking to improve their application infrastructure.

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.

Socotra

Seed Round in 2014
Socotra, Inc. is a technology company that offers a cloud-based platform designed specifically for the insurance industry. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Socotra provides a comprehensive software solution that includes policy administration, underwriting, claims management, billing, and reporting functionalities. The platform supports various insurance sectors, including property and casualty as well as life insurance. Built using modern technologies, Socotra’s platform is designed to be transparent, reliable, flexible, and secure, enabling insurance carriers and managing general agents to quickly develop and distribute products that meet customer needs. Its open APIs and product-agnostic data model facilitate the management of the entire policy lifecycle, promoting innovation within the insurance sector by enhancing speed, agility, and efficiency while reducing maintenance costs.

Flexe

Pre Seed Round in 2014
FLEXE, Inc. operates a cloud-based warehousing services marketplace that connects organizations needing additional storage and fulfillment capacity with those that have surplus space. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a platform that facilitates efficient warehouse sourcing and setup, streamlining material handling operations for clients including retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics firms. By addressing inventory overflow and fulfillment challenges, FLEXE enhances the logistics industry and enables businesses to achieve greater structural flexibility in their operations. The company aims to optimize the global delivery of goods and improve access to affordable warehousing solutions, ultimately helping enterprises strengthen their distribution networks and maximize revenue potential.

SEED.run

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Seed makes it painless for teams to use Serverless. Their custom deployment infrastructure can speed up your deployments 100x. And their dashboard makes it easy to manage your environments.

Flexe

Seed Round in 2013
FLEXE, Inc. operates a cloud-based warehousing services marketplace that connects organizations needing additional storage and fulfillment capacity with those that have surplus space. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a platform that facilitates efficient warehouse sourcing and setup, streamlining material handling operations for clients including retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics firms. By addressing inventory overflow and fulfillment challenges, FLEXE enhances the logistics industry and enables businesses to achieve greater structural flexibility in their operations. The company aims to optimize the global delivery of goods and improve access to affordable warehousing solutions, ultimately helping enterprises strengthen their distribution networks and maximize revenue potential.

Filestack

Seed Round in 2013
Filestack is a leading Content Ingestion Network that specializes in file handling and content integration for developers. Its platform enables the seamless uploading, storage, and transformation of large files, including documents, images, and videos. With an easy-to-use API, Filestack allows businesses to integrate file uploading capabilities into their applications, facilitating content retrieval from various sources such as websites and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Dropbox. Developers appreciate Filestack for its robust third-party integrations and the ability to deliver content quickly and responsively across all types of devices. The company's focus on reliability, scalability, and security makes it a preferred choice for organizations looking to enhance their content management processes.

imgix

Series A in 2013
imgix is a provider of on-demand image processing for websites and mobile apps. imgix’s API gives developers the power to perform image transformations at scale -- from simple crops and compression down to complex things like changing color profiles and adding watermarks -- in real-time before an image is served. This means images load faster and look better on every screen while saving bandwidth and storage space. imgix is venture-backed, with about $10 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Dropbox, Reddit, Lyft, Kickstarter, Coursera, Bonobos, The Guardian, Brit + Co., Bustle, and many others.

CircleCI

Seed Round in 2013
CircleCI is a provider of a continuous integration and delivery platform that enables software teams to automate the build, test, and deployment processes for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, CircleCI helps developers release code confidently and quickly, addressing the challenges of speed and complexity in modern software development. By automating essential tasks, the platform allows teams to detect and resolve bugs before reaching end users, thereby enhancing the overall quality of software products. CircleCI's services are utilized by numerous leading companies, allowing developers to focus on creating business value efficiently. The company has garnered recognition for its workplace environment and is supported by various venture capital firms.

CircleCI

Seed Round in 2012
CircleCI is a provider of a continuous integration and delivery platform that enables software teams to automate the build, test, and deployment processes for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, CircleCI helps developers release code confidently and quickly, addressing the challenges of speed and complexity in modern software development. By automating essential tasks, the platform allows teams to detect and resolve bugs before reaching end users, thereby enhancing the overall quality of software products. CircleCI's services are utilized by numerous leading companies, allowing developers to focus on creating business value efficiently. The company has garnered recognition for its workplace environment and is supported by various venture capital firms.

Compose

Series A in 2012
Compose, Inc. is a managed platform designed for developers to deploy, host, and scale databases, specializing in solutions for MongoDB and Elasticsearch. The company provides a range of services, including auto-scaling, monitoring tools, replica sets, regular backups, and priority email support, all hosted on SSD servers. Founded in 2009 and based in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Birmingham, Alabama, Compose was previously known as MongoHQ before rebranding in August 2014. As of July 2015, the company operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corporation. By offering shared hosting, database management tools, and user-controlled backups, Compose aims to facilitate efficient data solutions for developers.

Filestack

Seed Round in 2012
Filestack is a leading Content Ingestion Network that specializes in file handling and content integration for developers. Its platform enables the seamless uploading, storage, and transformation of large files, including documents, images, and videos. With an easy-to-use API, Filestack allows businesses to integrate file uploading capabilities into their applications, facilitating content retrieval from various sources such as websites and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Dropbox. Developers appreciate Filestack for its robust third-party integrations and the ability to deliver content quickly and responsively across all types of devices. The company's focus on reliability, scalability, and security makes it a preferred choice for organizations looking to enhance their content management processes.

Rescale

Seed Round in 2012
Rescale, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based infrastructure and software platforms that facilitate scientific and engineering simulations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers several products, including ScaleX Pro for independent professionals and small to medium-sized businesses, and ScaleX Developer, which allows external developers to build and deploy applications on Rescale's platform. Additionally, ScaleX Enterprise provides a comprehensive simulation solution that integrates on-premise high-performance computing resources and software management. Rescale serves various industries, including aerospace, automotive, consumer products, electronics, oil and gas, and life sciences, leveraging advanced technologies to empower engineers and scientists in their research and product development efforts. With a global presence that includes offices in Tokyo, Munich, and Singapore, Rescale continues to expand its role as a leading provider of cloud simulation services.

Compose

Seed Round in 2011
Compose, Inc. is a managed platform designed for developers to deploy, host, and scale databases, specializing in solutions for MongoDB and Elasticsearch. The company provides a range of services, including auto-scaling, monitoring tools, replica sets, regular backups, and priority email support, all hosted on SSD servers. Founded in 2009 and based in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Birmingham, Alabama, Compose was previously known as MongoHQ before rebranding in August 2014. As of July 2015, the company operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corporation. By offering shared hosting, database management tools, and user-controlled backups, Compose aims to facilitate efficient data solutions for developers.

imgix

Seed Round in 2011
imgix is a provider of on-demand image processing for websites and mobile apps. imgix’s API gives developers the power to perform image transformations at scale -- from simple crops and compression down to complex things like changing color profiles and adding watermarks -- in real-time before an image is served. This means images load faster and look better on every screen while saving bandwidth and storage space. imgix is venture-backed, with about $10 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Dropbox, Reddit, Lyft, Kickstarter, Coursera, Bonobos, The Guardian, Brit + Co., Bustle, and many others.

dotCloud

Series A in 2011
DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container.

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.

Nicira Networks

Series B in 2010
Nicira Networks specializes in software solutions that facilitate the virtualization of networks, aimed at enhancing the transition to cloud infrastructure. Founded by leading researchers in networking from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, the company focuses on enabling elastic, scale-out data centers. Its primary product, the Network Hypervisor, transforms traditional data center networks by reproducing the network service model in a logical space, which allows for better control and management of logical networks. Led by experienced entrepreneurs in the fields of networking, security, and virtualization, Nicira Networks is at the forefront of innovation in cloud infrastructure.

Heroku

Series A in 2008
Heroku is a cloud application platform designed for developers, enabling them to deploy, scale, and manage applications without the complexities of server management. Founded in July 2007 in San Francisco, California, Heroku supports multiple programming languages, including Ruby, Java, Node.js, Clojure, Python, PHP, Perl, and Scala. The platform operates using a system of application containers, known as “dynos,” which are distributed across a grid of servers. This architecture allows for efficient application management and scalability. Acquired by Salesforce in 2011, Heroku continues to function independently, providing a user-friendly environment for software development and collaboration.
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