Slow Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

587

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

422

Rounds per year

39.13

Lead investments

36

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

97

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSApps

Summary

In 2009 was created Slow Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Slow Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Slow Ventures performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund was created by Dave Morin, Kevin Colleran, Sam Lessin. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Slow Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, SOSV, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redpoint, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Norwest Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Union Square Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Airbnb, Twitter, Slack Technologies. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, SaaS.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailFintechB2B/EnterpriseHealthcare Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 325000000
Fund raised date
2022-04-26

Analytics

Total investments
587
Lead investments
36
Exits
97
Rounds per year
39.13
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (138)
  • Internet (98)
  • Health Care (70)
  • Mobile (62)
  • Information Technology (61)
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Investments by region
  • United States (535)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Israel (7)
  • Canada (5)
  • France (4)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
24
Number of Decacorns
28
Number of Minotaurs
8

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
586M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
9.56
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Authentic Insurance 29 Feb 2024 B2B, Insurance, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 11M United States, New York, New York
Digital Infrastructure Services 16 Jan 2024 Software, Information Technology, Consulting Early Stage Venture 11M United States, Rhode Island, Providence
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