Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Slack. See portfolio and contact routes.

About Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Slack, with a background that includes creating Flickr and holding advanced degrees in philosophy from Cambridge University. His investment thesis concentrates on early-stage companies in collaboration tools, developer infrastructure, and workplace technology, reflecting his own expertise in how teams communicate. He typically invests as an angel or through small syndicates, favoring founders with strong product quality and those who have learned from prior failures. Notable portfolio companies include Netlify, Carta, and Viktor, an enterprise AI firm where he holds a significant Series A exposure. Butterfield does not seek to build a personal investor brand, instead quietly backing founders who demonstrate genuine pattern recognition in their domains. His distinctive point of view emphasizes that distribution is as critical as product and that second-time founders often outperform first-timers due to their resilience.

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San Francisco, California, United States
Investor type
Individual/Angel
Portfolio companies listed
29
Investments recorded
31

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