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Slow Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2011. The page below shows 31 Power Law outcomes from Slow Ventures's portfolio — 26 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Other; top portfolio geographies are USA · Mexico. Slow Ventures ranks #69 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

31 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #69 · Global · 31 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 30% 5y
26
Decacorns ↓ 14% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 92% 5y
25
01 · Exits

Slow Ventures’ biggest exits.

Slow Ventures portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $67.5B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $45.0B
IPO · 2011
Now $27.6B
$15.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $23.4B
$18.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.7B
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $14.0B
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $9.1B
IPO · 2014
Now $5.1B
$4.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $543M
$4.1B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $53M
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
02 · Estimated holdings

Slow Ventures’ selected top holdings.

An estimate of Slow Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Slow Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $33M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Human InterestEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2.5% $1.3B $33M

Estimated value = Slow Ventures’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Slow Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Ro Health, Shippo, ZenBusiness, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 31 Slow Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA30
  2. Mexico1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  2. Fintech7
  3. Other3
  4. Health Tech & Medtech3
  5. Marketing3
  6. Cybersecurity2
  7. Other B2B Software2
  8. Transportation2
  9. AI2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+11
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed8
04 · Portfolio market map

Slow Ventures's 31 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
31 of 31 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Slow Ventures stack up?

Slow Ventures in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Slow Ventures's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

86 founders across the 31 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States49
Canada4
United Kingdom4
Spain4
Greece3
Taiwan3
Iran2
India2
Russia1
Germany1
+2 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University11
University of Texas at Austin9
University of Cambridge3
Columbia University3
Brown University3
Berkeley3
Harvard University3
Washington University in St. Louis2
Warren Alpert Medical School2
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
+22 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google8
Microsoft6
Meta4
Yahoo!4
Uber3
Shopping.com2
Apple2
Yelp2
eBay2
Quantenna Communications2
+27 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Slow Ventures.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Slow Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Slow Ventures on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Slow Ventures

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