Our team

Ron Conway is the Founder and a Managing Partner of SV Angel. He has been an active angel investor since the mid-90s and has received wide recognition for his role in the tech ecosystem. He was included on Vanity Fair’s 100 most influential people in the Information Age in 2010, awarded Best Angel at the 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards, and has been named on Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “deal-makers” since 2011. Prior to founding SV Angel, Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President, and CEO (1979-1990), taking the company public on Nasdaq in 1982.

Ron is an advocate for technology companies and civic engagement. He is the founder of sf.citi and co-founder of FWD.US for immigration reform. Ron is involved in efforts to solve for systemic racial and economic inequality for founders of color, especially with Slauson and Co. Philanthropically, Ron is a member of the Giving Pledge and Board Member of the Salesforce Foundation. He is a major donor to UCSF Medical Center and the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and College Track. He is active in preventing gun violence including Sandy Hook Promise, Giffords.org, and March for Our Lives.

During Covid-19, he was involved in major efforts to secure PPE and fundraise for a drug therapy/vaccine at UCSF and organized the Covid-19 Tech Task Force for exposure notifications on mobile devices.

He is the founder of the AI Ad Hoc Workgroup, convening the top 10 AI companies to consolidate policy inputs and advocate for AI Safety (Axios Article).

Topher Conway is a Managing Partner of SV Angel. Topher joined SV Angel in 2009, coming from a background in Business Development at EQAL. At SV Angel, he works particularly close with OpenAI, Rippling, Hugging Face, Notion, Stripe, Coinbase, DoorDash, and Deel. Topher was also included in the Forbes Midas List in 2023 and 2024, being recognized as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world. He was also named to the Forbes Midas Seed List in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Topher studied History at UCLA and is a member of the UCLA VC Fund, helping foster entrepreneurship at the University. Philanthropically, Topher is involved in a wide range of organizations, including Family House, College Track, Giffords.org, TGR Foundation, and Team RWB.

Beth Turner is a Managing Partner at SV Angel. Prior to joining, Beth ran operations and invested with a family office focused on early-stage opportunities, supporting companies such as Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV), Flatiron Health (acq. by Roche), LifeLock (formerly NYSE: LOCK), Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN), LuckySort (acq. by Twitter), and Workrise (fka Rigup). Prior, Beth was managing director of a consulting firm and worked with an international NGO with an operational focus in East Africa and the Middle East. Beth was an early employee at the ad-tech startup Adaptly (acq. by Accenture) and lived in Tel Aviv, Israel while working for Netafim (acq. by Mexichem).

She is a Siemens Westinghouse Scholar and Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist, has spoken at various events including TEDx and The World Space Conference and is the youngest person to ever record and submit data from an asteroid occultation. She is also a musician (performing the national anthem solo for NBA/NFL, with the Houston Grand Opera, and on an album with Albany records). Beth graduated from MIT with a major in Civil and Environmental Engineering and minors in Physics as well as Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). Some of her research focused on rare earth elements and their usage in new energy sources, as well as limitations in global supply and trade. Beth was also chosen for her climate advocacy and research to accompany polar explorer Robert Swan to Antarctica to raise awareness for the continent and globe's growing environmental and geopolitical threats. Philanthropically, Beth is co-founder of USA for UNHCR's (The UN Refugee Agency) Humanitarian Coalition and on the Board of Directors at USA for UNHCR.

Ashvin Bachireddy is a Managing Partner of SV Angel where he leads the firm's Growth Fund. He has twenty years of venture capital and technology experience. Ashvin was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world by his inclusion in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 Midas List. In 2019, he was recognized as one of venture capital’s up-and-comers by his inclusion in the Forbes Midas Brink List. Prior to SV Angel, Ashvin was a co-founder of Geodesic Capital where he led investments in Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB), Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT), Databricks, Duo Security (acq by CSCO), Figma, Forethought, HashiCorp (NASDAQ: HCP), Looker (acq by GOOGL), Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), Netskope, Pendo, Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP), Snyk, Tanium, Thoughtspot, Vercel, UiPath (NYSE: PATH) and Workato. Prior to Geodesic Capital, Ashvin was the Head of Growth Stage Investing at Andreessen Horowitz. He was actively involved with Andreessen Horowitz’s investments in Box (NYSE: BOX), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Fanatics, Github (acq by MSFT), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and Zulily. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ashvin was a venture capital investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners, 3i Group and JMI Equity where he was involved with investments at all stages spanning broadly across technology. Earlier in his career Ashvin was in the investment banking division at Montgomery & Co. and Salomon Smith Barney. Ashvin received a B.S. in Management Science from the University of California at San Diego.

Steven Lee is a Partner at SV Angel, where he has been investing in seed-stage founders across various sectors, including AI, enterprise, fintech, and consumer technology. In recent years, he has partnered with over 35 AI companies, including Modular, Captions, ElevenLabs, Skild AI, Tabular, and others still in stealth.

Before joining SV Angel, Steven was a Director at Bain Capital Ventures, working with portfolio companies like Clockwise and Magical. He was also the founder of Bain Capital Ventures’ data-driven sourcing efforts. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Steven was an early member of Twitter’s Global Market Insight & Analytics team over a decade ago.

Steven is the proud son of two immigrants from South Korea and grew up in Los Angeles’ Koreatown district. As one of the few Korean-descent partners in the VC industry, he actively supports Gold House, a non-profit organization that empowers and unites Asian Pacific creators and businesses.

He holds a B.A. in economics from New York University. During Steven’s time as a student at NYU, he worked multiple part-time jobs to self-finance his education and was a member of the NCAA Fencing team. He is based in San Francisco with his wife and newborn daughter.

Sourav Gupta is a Principal at SV Angel. He has five years of venture capital and growth equity experience across funds like Insight Partners, TCV, and Geodesic Capital. Throughout his career, Sourav has had a strong focus on enterprise, infrastructure, and application software. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Sourav grew up in Las Vegas and enjoys playing tennis, chess, and exploring new countries through his travels.

Mike is a Principal at SV Angel. He started his career in technology M&A at Qatalyst Partners and was an Associate at SV Angel from 2014 to 2016 before co-founding Malibu, a venture-backed social streaming platform. Prior to rejoining the SV Angel team, Mike spent four years leading product and developer relations teams at Roblox (NYSE:RBLX) responsible for social platform, creator feedback, and community growth. Originally from San Francisco, Mike grew up in Irvine, CA and can be found playing music, golfing, and drafting Magic on the weekends. He holds an undergraduate degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.