Slow Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
587
13M
422
39.13
36
0.27
97
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 346 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (535)
- United Kingdom (7)
- Israel (7)
- Canada (5)
- France (4) Show 3 more
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 24
- Number of Decacorns
- 28
- Number of Minotaurs
- 8
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- 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 |
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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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