The first investment from Slow Ventures' $60M creator fund and the purest expression of the creator-as-CEO thesis — a woodworking creator with mid-seven-figure revenue and a 33,000 sq ft manufacturing facility, backed via revenue share with no equity taken.
Slow Ventures — Jonathan Katz Moses $2M Investment
Type: VC Investment — Direct Creator Investor: slow ventures Subject: Jonathan Katz Moses (woodworking creator) Amount: $2 million Structure: Revenue share, no equity (Slow Ventures' creator fund model) Status: Closed — first investment from Slow's $60M creator fund
Why It Matters to Due Dilly
This is the first investment from Slow Ventures' $60M creator fund and the purest expression of the creator-as-CEO thesis. Jonathan Katz Moses is a woodworking creator with mid-seven-figure annual revenue, a 33,000 sq ft manufacturing facility, and proprietary/patented products. He is, by every operational metric, a CEO. Slow's bet is that this profile — creator with genuine product-market fit and a real business underneath the content — is the template for the next generation of investible creators.
Episodes
- ep 01 why creators are worth billions — First investment from Slow Ventures' $60M creator fund; creator-as-CEO thesis in action
Deal Mechanics
- Amount: $2M
- Structure: Revenue share, no equity — Slow takes a percentage of future revenue, not ownership
- Why no equity: The thesis is capital without control; creator retains the business
- What Slow provides: Capital + network, not board seats or governance rights
Related Entities
- slow ventures — Investor
- jonathan katz moses — Creator / investment subject
Signals
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