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SV Angel
Angel fund · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026
SV Angel is the syndicate built by Ron Conway, often called Silicon Valley's most prolific angel investor. The fund was carried on by his son Topher Conway, who runs SV Angel today. Cheques are small, fast, and broad — by design SV Angel is the first call on the cap table for hundreds of consumer-internet and SaaS companies a year.
Historic bets include early Google, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and Stripe. The portfolio counts on this profile cover only outcomes Dealroom measures for the Power Law ranking, not the full SV Angel cap-table footprint.
SV Angel’s biggest exits.
SV Angel portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
SV Angel’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of SV Angel’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 6 companies where SV Angel is a named shareholder, worth about $1.1B in estimated equity value.
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1
Safe Superintelligence
2.5%
$32.0B
$800M
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2
Hugging Face
4%
$4.5B
$180M
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3
Hippocratic AI
2%
$3.5B
$70M
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4
Modular AI
3.1%
$1.6B
$50M
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5
Chai Discovery
0.6%
$1.3B
$8M
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6
ComplyAdvantage
0.01%
$250M
$25K
Estimated value = SV Angel’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. SV Angel also appears inside investor groups in Addepar, Apollo.io, Applied Intuition, BetterUP, Bowery Farming, Cedar, Checkr, ClassDojo and 20 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+35 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 166 SV Angel Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA158
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UK4
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Australia1
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Sweden1
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Canada1
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Estonia1
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Fintech29
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AI26
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Other B2B Software18
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eCommerce & Marketplaces17
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Marketing16
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Cybersecurity12
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Other12
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Health Tech & Medtech10
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Transportation8
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Biotech & Life Sciences8
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Edtech7
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Robotics1
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Series B+33
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Series A52
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Seed78
SV Angel's 166 Power Law outcomes.
How does SV Angel stack up?
SV Angel in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere SV Angel's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
550 founders across the 166 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at SV Angel.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about SV Angel
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SV Angel on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about SV Angel
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning SV Angel — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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