Will Quist

William Quist is a general partner at Slow Ventures, an early-stage venture firm with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Slow’s site describes him as “Excitable GP” and notes that he was formerly a partner at Industry Ventures. Signal identifies him as a partner at Slow Ventures in San Francisco and lists his current investing position at the firm.

Quist joined Slow Ventures in 2015, according to Signal. Before Slow, he worked at Industry Ventures in investment roles that Signal lists as associate, vice president, managing director, and partner. Earlier in his career, Signal lists him as an analyst at Banc of America Securities from 2005 to 2007 and as an editor at AlwaysOn Network from 2004 to 2005.

Signal lists Quist’s education as University of California, Berkeley, and Bellarmine College Preparatory. His investing profile is tied to Slow’s broader seed-focused strategy: Slow says it has invested in the earliest rounds of companies including PillPack, Slack, Solana, Teamshares, Airtable, Ro, Venmo, Metropolis, Robinhood, Postmates, and Livongo.

• Slow Ventures says it leads seed and pre-seed rounds for startups across the U.S. and is flexible on sector, round construction, and company structure.
• Slow frames its capital as funding “rapid experimentation with significant, demonstrable results” and says venture capital should test a novel risk or hypothesis that cannot be funded another way.
• Slow’s stated thesis emphasizes capital efficiency, sound businesses, and the road to profitability rather than fundraising momentum.
• The firm says it helps founders with money, advice, access, capital-markets judgment, and introductions, but does not operate a large platform or portfolio operations team.
• Signal lists Quist’s investment range as $500K-$2.0M, with a $1M sweet spot.
• Signal ranks Quist across Web3/crypto, consumer internet, health IT, health and hospital services, and SaaS at pre-seed, seed, Series A, and Series B.
• Signal lists Quist as most interested in banking, future of work, and health care services, and not interested in marketing technologies, content, or lending.