Topher Conway
Co-Managing Partner, SV Angel. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Topher Conway is a Co-Managing Partner at SV Angel, where he works closely with portfolio companies like Gusto, GitHub, and Lookout. Before joining SV Angel, he worked at EQAL, Inc. and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015.
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4said about them ↓ Everything Topher Conway said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
SV Angel Refuses Board Seats to Maintain Founder Alignment
“We also don't take board seats. We think that, you know, we always want to align ourselves with founders and be the advocate for them. We think that at some point in the business boardroom will get contentious and founder will, and the board won't agree on som…”
SV Angel Is Valuation and Ownership Insensitive at the Seed Stage
“So we don't really think about it That much at all. Unless it's something totally out of whack or, you know, out of line with where the company is in the founder's background, that's probably the only time that it'll really play into our decision. Other than t…”
SV Angel Flags Deals if Valuation Talk Exceeds Five Minutes
“You know, if we spend more than, you know, we've always had this kind of internal rule is if, You know, if we spend more than five minutes talking about valuation with a founder, then something's wrong. Something's awry there.”
SV Angel Sees a 40% Portfolio Failure Rate
“We have about 40% of our portfolio goes out of business and that's fine.”
Startups Should Wait Until Post-Seed to Construct Formal Boards
“You can always bring on angel investors and advisory board members earlier on in the life cycle of the company, but when it comes to really constructing a board, you know, doing that post series seed going into the series a, you know, that's probably when it's…”
Valuation Caps Do Not Matter for Breakout Venture Hits
“You know, if the company's, if it's going to be a big, successful company, you know, if you're investing at a six million cap or an eight million dollar cap, it doesn't really matter.”
The Series A Crunch Was Overall Healthy for the Startup Ecosystem
“And, you know, one of the byproducts was it really forced companies to focus on their core metrics. What really happened in the, over the last couple of years is, you know, series a investors and B started really focusing on, you know, is this a good business?…”
SV Angel Receives 8 to 15 Referred Deals Daily
“We see on average eight to 15 companies per day referred to us all from within our network.”
SV Angel Writes $100K–$200K Checks and Never Leads Rounds
“Like I said, our checks are smaller. They're a hundred to 200 K checks. So we rely on all the other investors to participate in the round. We never lead rounds ourselves.”
Conway Claims eCal Created YouTube's First Real Episodic Content
“We made shows for YouTube. It was the first real episodic content on YouTube.”
SV Angel Intentionally Reduced Its Fund Size to Write $100K Checks
“And for us, that's our latest fund. We actually reduce the size of it so that we have the flexibility to invest whether it's pre-seed or seed, you know, so we can make that 100,000 dollar investment where it's really just the founders that we, that we're inves…”
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20VC 4
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- 20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox
- 20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Managing Partner, SV Angel | 1 | 12 | 100% 2/2 | full record on 20VC → |