Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage 📝venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Dave Morin, Kevin Colleran, and 📝Sam Lessin, all former 📝Facebook executives. With offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York, the firm leads seed and 📝pre-seed rounds across security, 📝fintech, buyouts and rollups, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the 📝Creator Economy. Early investments include 📝Airtable, 📝Gusto, PillPack, 📝Robinhood, 📝Slack, 📝Solana, and 📝Venmo.
Slow's published letter rejects what it calls the "factory model" of venture — the 2010s pattern of rapid capital deployment that, in its framing, turned venture into growth equity betting on replication. The firm instead funds "venture moments": points where capital tests a novel hypothesis whose confirmation sharply increases company value and where no other funding exists. It runs without a platform or operations team; founders work directly with the partners, currently including Colleran (Managing Director), Lessin and Will Quist (GPs), Megan Lightcap, Yoni Rechtman, and Clay Robbins. In February 2025 Slow launched a $60M Creator Fund, led by Lightcap, backing niche creators who build off-platform businesses; its first check, $2M in August 2025, went to woodworking creator Jonathan Katz-Moses. December 2024 filings showed the firm raising $275M across Fund VI and an Opportunity Fund.