Slow Ventures

Aleo Network Foundation

crypto

Aleo Network Foundation operates Aleo, a privacy-first programmable Layer 1 network. It uses zero-knowledge technology to support private, compliant payments, stablecoins, and decentralized applications for businesses, developers, and network participants.

Allora Labs

hybrid

Allora Labs builds AI and crypto infrastructure focused on decentralized, self-improving collective intelligence for developers and financial applications.

Allora Network

hybrid

Allora Network is a self-improving, decentralized AI network that aggregates community-built machine learning models into an 'abstraction layer for intelligence,' producing highly accurate, context-aware predictions such as price forecasts and risk assessments. It serves DeFi protocols, DEXs, NFT marketplaces, AI agent frameworks, and Web3 applications that plug into its inferences via APIs and oracles, with clients spanning blockchains (Arbitrum, Solana, Base, Aptos, Sei, Katana), DeFi platforms (PancakeSwap, Coinbase AgentKit, Steer, Drift, Cod3x) and AI-agent ecosystems.

Ampleforth

crypto

Ampleforth is a decentralized elastic-finance protocol ecosystem. Its AMPL unit-of-account token targets a CPI-adjusted dollar through supply rebases, while FORTH token holders govern the protocol and DAO.

Arwen

crypto

Stealth

Big Whale Labs

hybrid

Big Whale Labs builds financial AGI at the intersection of cryptography and machine learning. Its latest project is pigeon.trade.

Burrata

out of scope

Burrata was a bridge infrastructure that allowed users to bridge their identity (and other private) data from the Internet to the blockchain. The project shut down in late 2023 after failing to find the right market fit.

Chaos Labs

hybrid

Chaos Labs builds enterprise AI infrastructure that helps organizations understand AI work, capture organizational knowledge, and govern AI-generated intelligence. It also operates Chaos AI, a DeFi agent offering structured, executable financial actions.

Chia Network Inc.

crypto

Chia Network Inc. delivers blockchain software for enterprises to tokenize, custody, and trade assets with auditable authenticity and provenance. It operates the public Chia blockchain and provides wallets, farming software, developer tools, and solutions for financial, climate, and luxury-product use cases.

Comm

out of scope

Comm is a privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted messaging app for communities. It extends Signal-style encryption with personal keyservers to support community features such as channels, roles, threads, encrypted backups, and Ethereum-wallet-based identity.

Cozy Finance

crypto

Cozy Finance provides DeFi risk-management infrastructure and protection products for protocols and users. Its safety stack includes tranches, reserves, protection markets, and protected vaults that help manage bad debt, exploits, and catastrophic losses.

Dew Drops

crypto

Stealth

DIMO

crypto

DIMO is an open and secure mobility platform that aims to make every car on earth smart and programmable. It powers the next generation of connected car applications and services for both individual drivers and enterprises.

DRESSX

ai robotics

DRESSX provides AI-powered fashion-commerce products for brands and consumers. Its enterprise AI Suite includes virtual try-on and customer-facing styling tools for fashion and luxury brands, alongside avatar-fashion experiences and games.

Eco

crypto

Eco provides stablecoin infrastructure for programmable cross-chain money movement. Its products support real-time stablecoin transfers and swaps, programmable deposit addresses, and automated onchain transaction execution for developers, payment platforms, DeFi protocols, exchanges, wallets, stablecoin issuers, and AI agents.

Ecosapiens

hybrid

The Ecosapiens Foundation exists to make consumerism better—for people and the planet. Through Ecolink AI, we are building a network that rewards transparency, health, and sustainability.

Espresso Systems

crypto

Espresso Systems develops and operates blockchain infrastructure for custom chains, rollups, and financial systems. Its Espresso Network provides fast finality, data availability, decentralized sequencing, and crosschain interoperability for applications requiring control, performance, and connectivity.

Fold, Inc.

hybrid

Fold, Inc. is a bitcoin-focused personal finance platform. It offers a prepaid debit card, bitcoin buying and selling, bitcoin rewards, ACH bill pay rewards, and bitcoin gift cards for U.S. consumers.

Helium Network

crypto

Helium powers decentralized wireless infrastructure through community-operated hotspots, enabling accessible connectivity for IoT sensors and mobile devices.

Hummingbot Foundation

hybrid

Hummingbot Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that maintains Hummingbot, an open-source Python framework for automated crypto market making and algorithmic trading. The framework supports trading strategies across centralized and decentralized exchanges and blockchains for individual and professional traders.

Hyperline

crypto

Hyperline is a Web3 data lakehouse for analytics, data science, and machine-learning workloads. It serves startups and enterprises building data-powered Web3 products.

Iron Fish

crypto

Iron Fish helps users transfer cryptocurrency privately by providing a proof-of-work blockchain where every transaction is encrypted using zero-knowledge proofs.

KINO

out of scope

KINO is a social streaming platform for discovering films, creating personalized watchlists, and finding where films and shows are available to stream. Its KINO AI provides personalized movie recommendations and related trailers, interviews, and clips.

Lightning Labs

crypto

Lightning Labs is a software company that builds tools for faster and cheaper Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network.