Our goal at Slow is to focus on the seed stage and be as true to classic venture capital as possible. We try our best to find founders working on novel hypotheses about the future and fund them with enough capital to validate or answer the most important questions. We’re a small team that operates collaboratively but with plenty of autonomy. We’ve kept our funds and our team deliberately small — but are ready to add to the team…
About the role…
We are looking to add to the team someone who brings a depth of expertise in either the consumer or enterprise sectors (fully acknowledging that lines are always blurring). The job is to really take ownership of a sector for us. You’ll be responsible for researching and developing Slow’s views and theses — as well as sharing them with the world. You will help effectively triage our deal flow and run point on diligence for companies in your domain. You’ll be expected to have a pulse on the new companies emerging in your world — knowing what is being started and what is getting funded. That also means having a discerning opinion on emerging themes — and sharing them with the team and the broader ecosystem. The title and comp will flex based on experience, but given the responsibility of the position, we’re looking for folks with 8–10 years of experience in and around the tech / venture ecosystems.
About You…
You may currently be working at a big, established venture platform, focusing on a particular sector you love. But the big venture game that you are working in is getting bigger, more structured, and more rigid. While this has had a number of positive effects on the startup ecosystem — the scope of your current role is narrowing and getting less entrepreneurial and you are looking for a change.
Or maybe you are a former venture-backed founder / early employee who understands the challenges both of raising venture capital as well as successfully deploying it.
Or maybe you work at a big tech company and you’ve made an angel investment, helped others source angel investments, or helped advise startups. You have built a network of founders, folks at big companies, and other investors. You know how to help early stage companies prioritize what to work on.
Whatever your background, at the end of the day you love kicking around new ideas, themes, places the world *might* be headed — and figuring out how those things may turn into venture capital investments.
If this resonates with you, it’s probably worth us catching up. We want people like you…
How to apply…
Please send us an email to catherine@slow.co with a short paragraph on who you are and why this sounds like it might be you
