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Slow Ventures

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Slow Ventures

@slow

Generalist early-stage investors backing bold ideas. PortCos: Solana, Airtable, Gusto, Creators and more since 2011. @kevincolleran @lessin @wquist @yrechtman

SF, NYC, Boston

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Apr 8
America invented drones. Then China took 70% of the market while we debated permits. The airspace below 500 feet is the most valuable undeveloped real estate in the country, and we're not even allowed to use it. New deep dive from @angelesahr on why the low-altitude economy is
Slow Ventures
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Jul 30
We backed Ryan when he built Cadre. We're backing him again with @ellis_company, solving the reason institutional has always meant expensive. Private credit became a multi-trillion dollar asset class in about a decade while the operating stack underneath it barely moved. That
Ryan Williams
@RyanAWms
Jul 30
At @cadre, I saw the gap firsthand. Large “institutional” firms built their own systems. But everyone else had to deliver with fewer resources, spreadsheets and manual work. forbes.com/sites/jeffkauf… “Institutional” should describe a standard, not a budget. That conviction
Slow Ventures
@slow
Jul 29
AI isn't just changing how engineers build. It's changing who gets to build at all. We ran the first Creator AI Bootcamp in San Francisco earlier this year. Creators from all over flew in and walked away with custom agents, content workflows, and automations they were using the
Slow Ventures
@slow
Jul 28
Everyone is fixated on the robot getting out of the car. The number that matters is $30/hr with a human still in the loop. Tau is pricing to own the job first and squeeze the operator out later. That's the business. "The robots commoditize and the network keeps the spread"
Alexander Koch
@alexkoch_ai
Jul 28
Today, we’re launching Tau’s humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30 per hour. Access is initially invite-only as we scale operations. If you don’t have an invite yet, join the waitlist at tau-robotics.com. All footage is shown at 1× speed. Each humanoid is
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Jul 15
"Automation of the physical world is a systems problem, not a robotics problem." @wquist @cytronic_ai is what that looks like in practice. It is not a robotics company. It is a fulfillment system that happens to use robots, giving independent ecommerce brands access to the
Kevin Gibbon
@kevingibbon
Jul 15
Brands shouldn't have to become Amazon to ship like Amazon. Today we're unveiling @cytronic_ai — robotic fulfillment that helps ecommerce brands lower costs by up to 80%, deliver faster, and scale without giving up control of their customers.
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