Jill Carlson is a Venture Partner at Slow Ventures, an early-stage San Francisco venture capital firm. See sector focus and contact routes.
Jill Carlson is a Venture Partner at Slow Ventures, an early-stage San Francisco venture capital firm, and previously served as a Principal there while leading investments in consumer and enterprise startups. Her investment thesis centers on fintech, cryptocurrency, and blockchain sectors, with a focus on scaling decentralized finance infrastructure and directing early-stage Web3 investments. She typically invests in the $500K–$2.0M range, with a sweet spot of $1M, and has seven recorded investments. Notable portfolio companies include Zero Acre Farms, where she supports food and ag tech innovation, and she advises startups such as Algorand, O(1) Labs, and Risk Labs. Carlson co-founded the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit researching financial access in closed economies, and published “Cryptocurrencies and Capital Controls” in 2016, one of the first studies on crypto’s role in evading capital controls. She also co-hosts the cryptocurrency podcast “What Grinds My Gears” and has consulted for projects including 0x, dYdX, CoinList, Tezos, and Zcash.
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