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. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Boston and New York, the firm has deployed approximately $1B into seed and pre-seed rounds across security, fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy. Portfolio companies include Airtable, Clay, Gusto, OpenPhone, Solana, Robinhood, and Slack.
Slow's investment philosophy explicitly rejects what it calls the "factory model" of venture — the 2010s-era pattern of rapid capital deployment divorced from business fundamentals. Instead, the firm seeks founders with 5–20 years of domain expertise who hold deep conviction about a specific problem, and invests at the moment where a discrete capital injection can validate a novel hypothesis and materially increase company value. The firm operates with a deliberately small team of roughly six investment professionals and three GPs, with no platform or operations layer, emphasizing direct GP engagement over institutional scaffolding. In February 2025 Slow launched a dedicated $60M Creator Fund led by partner Megan Lightcap, and is currently raising Fund VI and an Opportunity Fund totaling $275M.