Slow Ventures began in 2009 when Kevin Colleran and Dave Morin, both early Facebook employees, started informally pooling personal angel investments alongside other Facebook alumni, before formalizing the effort into an institutional venture firm by 2011. That origin shaped a genuinely distinctive limited-partner structure that persists today: more than 100 technology founders, CEOs, and executives, not just endowments and foundations, who actively help source deals and support portfolio companies rather than passively writing checks. The firm's deliberately patient, founder-first philosophy - reflected in its name - has produced early conviction bets across consumer, fintech, crypto, and healthcare, including Coinbase, Robinhood, PillPack, Airtable, and Solana, with more than $800 million deployed since inception across pre-seed through Series A.
PillPack's $753 million acquisition by Amazon in September 2018 - Kevin Colleran was an early investor in the online pharmacy