VC  Slow Ventures

http://www.slow.co/





     Office Locations:

775 E. Blithedale Avenue #515
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Phone: 415-371-0098

 

Stages:

  • Early
  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Media & Digital Media
  • Software & Internet

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    Description:

    Founded 2009, Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm making small investments in more than 300 technology startups throughout the U.S. Co-founder, Kevin Colleran, joined Facebook in early 2005 as one of the first 10 employees and first advertising partnerships sales person. Slow began investing in startups in 2011 with a small $1.25M angel fund and was backed exclusively by five friends from Facebook. The firm has invested in industry-leading companies like Casper, Pillpack, Slack, Ro(Roman), Allbirds, Postmates, Airtable and many others. In 2019, the firm closed its fourth seed fund, Slow IV, which is $165M in size, and its first opportunity fund, Slow Opportunity I, which is $55M. These new funds secured $220M in additional investable capital, bringing Slow's total assets under management (AUM) to $450M.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name


      Amount


      Date

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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Jill Carlson Venture Partner
    Kevin Colleran Co-Founder and Managing Director
    Sam Lessin Partner
    Will Quist Partner

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      02/22/2024


      dub


      NY


      $17,000,000


      Seed


      10/10/2023


      KINO Studios


      CA


      $2,000,000


      Pre-Seed


      07/11/2023


      RecruitBot


      CA


      $8,200,000


      Seed


      05/31/2023


      DeepSentinel


      CA


      $15,000,000


      


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Airtable


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      Alpine Start Foods
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      Amino
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      Amplio
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      Astra


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      BloomAPI
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      Breather
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      Captain401
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      Casper


      Class Technologies
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      Collective Retreats
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      Cord Project
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      DeepSentinel
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      Do
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      Dots
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      dub
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      Eco


      Ecosapiens
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      Embark Veterinary
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      Facet Wealth
        web link


      Flossy
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      Heal


      Helium Systems
        web link


      HERB


      Homemade
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      Hydra Studios


      HyperScience


      ianacare
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      Invisible AI
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      Joymode
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      KINO Studios
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      Pogo


      Porter Road
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      Resy
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