Slow Ventures - About

Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a generalist early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Since 2011, in the earliest rounds of companies across security, fintech, buyouts/rollups, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy. Our portfolio includes companies like Airtable, Brightside, Gusto, Metropolis, OpenPhone, PillPack, Ro, Solana, Teamshares and more.

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Ongoing Thoughts - Stay in the loop on our latest thinking with Snailmail.

Intro Letter - A bit on how we operate and what we look for.

The Current State of VC - The world famous deck on the broken ‘factory system’ of VC & what to do about it.

Growth Buyout - How software, not B2B SaaS, will eat the world.

Creator - how we back the next great class of entrepreneurs.

Conviction - Too many great founders ask ‘can I start this?’ when the important question is ‘should I?’.

Private Practice - The future of healthcare is private practice.

SMB - Accelerating SMBs and Owners.

Franchising - Why Venture Should Care About Franchises.

Portfolio

Consumer-ish

Nextdoor Private social network for your neighborhood

Hipcamp Discover and book the best campsites in California

Postmates Same day urban delivery platform

Birchbox Subscription commerce for beauty products

Allbirds Specialized, high-performance compute to power AI.

Casper Digitally introduced brand of mattresses.

Birdies Fashionable women’s slippers.

BarkBox Subscription commerce for dogs

Even Interest-free credit to keep your paycheck steady.

Citizen People protect each other

Good Dog Find puppies from responsible breeders.

Fintech-y

Robinhood Mobile stock brokerage

Venmo Social payment app

Eco Enables any onchain action to be a simple, one-click stablesend

HM Bradley Unlock your money’s potential

VGS Payment data security & compliance infrastructure

Human Interest 401(ks) for SMBs

Authentic Insurance for small businesses on your platform

Astra The Automation Platform for Money Movement

Wax Insurance Protect your passion

Taptap Send Send more, spend less.

Avian Labs (Sling Money) Effortless money everywhere.

Dub Start copy-trading real investors.

Narrative AI for compliance teams who can’t afford to be wrong.

SaaS-ie

Airtable Modern database software.

Domino Data Lab Enterprise data science platform.

Frontapp Customer management platform

Tonkean Next generation management platform.

Otter AI-powered voice translation app.

OpenPhone Mobile app for a business phone number

Slack Work messaging

Amplio Risk prediction & component sourcing

Sublime Security Detect and prevent email attacks

Superorder All in one management software for kitchens

Wayfaster Interview your entire pipeline 10x faster

Hamlet Government meeting intelligence at scale

Tofu Detect and eliminate resume fraud.

Atomic The Invisible SDLC Company: from prompt to production

Outtake Defend your Identity, Content, and IP

Healthy

Ro Direct-to-consumer telehealth.

Livongo Health Personalized Tools for Chronic Condition Management

Plume Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy From Anywhere

Pillpack Simplified Pharmacy

Fairsquare Medical Your Medicare One-Stop-Shop

Wheel powering virtual care

Brightside online treatment for depression and anxiety

Superdial automating payer phone calls end-to-end

Embark Dog DNA & health testing

Flossy For patients without dental insurance

Meroka We help independent physicians transition practice ownership

Phoebe Self-driving software for home health

Creator-y

Stem distribution and payments for musicians

Human DAOs lead by creators

Pearpop creator collaboration on demand

Real-World-ish

Teamshares employee ownership for small business.

Metropolis checkout-free experiences for the real world

The Lumber Manufactory Miniaturized lumber mills.

Astra Lower cost rocket launches.

Common Technology-enabled residential operator.

Running Tide Automated ocean harvesting technologies.

Zipline Global on-demand delivery.

Craftwork The next great American home services brand.

Heave Heavy equiptment service, one tap away.

Area 2 Farms Robotic farming network.

Crypto

Solana Scalable blockchain infrastructure.

Klaytn The Ground for All Blockchain Services

Chia A new blockchain and smart transaction platform

Aleo Where Applications Become Private.

Algorand A pure proof of stake blockchain platform.

Diem A trusted and innovative financial network.

Ampleforth The rebasing currency.

Lightning Labs layer-two bitcoin.

Portal Labs make wallets embeddable anywhere.

Fold Wallet Bitcoin wallet.

River The best place to buy, sell BTC

And Many More....

Investment Team

Kevin Colleran Managing Director. Fmr GC & early Facebook. @KevinColleran

Sam Lessin GP. Fmr VP Product FB. Co-founder Fin Analytics & Drop.io. Intern The Information. @lessin

Will Quist Excitable GP. Fmr Partner at Industry Ventures. @wquist

Megan Lightcap Partner, Creator Fund. Frmr Olive and L Catterton. @mmlightcap

Yoni Rechtman Partner. Frmr Tusk Ventures. @yrechtman

Clay Robbins Forward deployed partner. Crypto @ Colosseum. Fmr 0x and Square. @crabbylions

Newsletters & Media

More or Less - Sam’s Weekly Podcast, with Dave & Brit… and Jess.

Snailmail - Weekly firm newsletter; while other VC newsletters echo, we venture

Megan’s Newsletter (Creator) - An exploration into creator entrepreneurs by Megan: how they build and grow community-first companies

X - Thoughts and ideas from the team in bitesize clips and posts

YouTube - Conversations with our personal network

Get In Touch

It is always best to find us through mutual friends… but you can always get in touch to pitch us or say hi here or give us a toll free call at 888-616-7569