Welcome to the Slater Fund

Partnering with technologists and entrepreneurs to build exceptional companies in Rhode Island

The Slater Technology Fund focuses on the support of entrepreneurs who have the vision, leadership and commitment to build substantial business enterprises, providing seed stage capital to companies committed to basing and building technology-based businesses in Rhode Island. 

Slater typically invests at the inception stage in the development of a new venture, often based upon ideas and technologies originating in academic institutions, government research laboratories or commercial enterprises located within the region. 

In most cases, investments are premised upon the possibility of raising substantial follow-on financing, be it from venture capital investors or from strategic partners, the rationale being that such external funding will accelerate the creation of a significant number of high value, high wage jobs over the intermediate to longer-term.

Several core tenets form the basis for Slater’s mission and strategy, including:

• a commitment to entrepreneurship as a strategy of choice for economic development;
• the belief that big ideas most often start small; and
• the principle that commitment of key people is the foundation on which all else is built

Slater Technology Board of Directors Meeting, July 17, 2008 at the Slater Headquarters.