Ron Conway

Conway was the single largest campaign contributor to Ed Lee in his successful campaign for Mayor of San Francisco in November 2011; Conway raised $600,000 for Lee through independent expenditure committees. Since then questions have been raised about whether Lee has taken actions to benefit companies in which Conway has investments.

In 2012, Conway founded the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, or sf.citi, a 501(c) organization that advocates for the technology community and is involved in a number of public initiatives, and private/public partnerships involving tech companies partnering with public agencies such as the San Francisco Health Department, the Office of Emergency Management, the police department, and the school district.

In April 2013, a lobbying group called FWD.us (aimed at lobbying for immigration reform and improvements to education) was launched, with Ron Conway listed as one of the supporters.

In 2014, Conway, along with fellow Airbnb investor Reid Hoffman, donated a total of $685,000 to David Chiu in support of Chiu's tightly fought Assembly campaign against current San Francisco supervisor and 2015 Prop F supporter David Campos.

Conway has been highly critical of President Donald Trump, especially on the issues of gun control and immigration. He was reported to have spent more than $1 million and raised millions more to support efforts to win Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. Recode named him one of ten major Silicon Valley donors and fundraisers for the 2018 November midterm elections

Conway was also an early supporter of Mayor London Breed, though in 2018 his focus remained on national issues over local San Francisco elections. However, his wife, Gayle, donated $200,500 to a political action committee that attacked Breed's opponent Jane Kim.

Conway served as co-chair of the COVID-19 Technology Task Force, an technology industry coalition founded in March 2020 collaborating to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

In August 2022, Conway contributed $50,000 to The Next 50, a liberal political action committee (PAC).

In the first quarter of 2024, Conway and his sons contributed half of the cash contributions provided to the political committee Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, or "OUST."

In 2024, Conway donated $250,000 to Clear Choice, a liberal political action committee (PAC), who aims to prevent third-party from undermining Democratic candidates. Conway donated $500,000 to pro-cryptocurrency super PAC Fairshake in 2024, but later left the group after its support for Bernie Moreno.

In 2025, Conway resigned from the Salesforce Foundation board after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff urged Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco amid Trump's deployment of federal forces to other cities.