Our Team
Before founding Gather Ventures, Adam was Co-Founder/COO/CFO of Moviefone (NASDAQ: MOFN), CEO of Mimeo.com, and President of Tough Mudder.
While serving on the Advisory Board of Canyon Ranch Resorts, Adam discovered he had early onset of coronary artery disease. After moving to a plant-based lifestyle, the disease began to reverse. Recognizing the value of wellness via lifestyle intervention, Adam decided to create Gather Ventures to invest in and actively mentor founders building companies that improve human health and the health of the planet. Given his personal health journey, Fund I was focused on plant-based businesses.
Adam graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Adam Slutsky
Founding Partner
Daniel co-leads Gather's investment process from sourcing to execution. He also leverages his eight years of early-stage VC experience to bolster the strategic finance and operations functions of our existing portfolio companies. As a former collegiate athlete, Daniel is particularly passionate about nutrition and physical wellness, and he is focused on finding winners at the intersection of those categories.
Before joining Gather, Daniel spent three years at AF Ventures, a leading NYC-based consumer VC with a focus on better-for-you lifestyle businesses.
Daniel holds a B.A. with Distinction from Kenyon College where he was pre-medicine and played varsity lacrosse.
Daniel Maffezzoli
Partner

Our
Value-Add
We’re operators first and investors second. Our goal as partners is to be an operationally fluent extension of your management team. We understand the day-to-day of the entrepreneurial journey better than most and proactively created a venture model that isn’t kind to fair-weather fan portfolio management.
Alignment
Our small but mighty team has 40+ years of experience as successful builders, advisors, and investors. The founders of portfolio companies in our first fund, founded in 2020, are huge proponents of our high-touch partnership model. The growth of their businesses backs it up!
Track Record
It’s built directly into our fund’s model that we make the time to be helpful to our portfolio companies. We don’t “spray and pray”, we instead only invest in 3-4 companies per year to maintain ample bandwidth to get deeply involved as collaborators.
Bandwidth
As a small fund, we have a very thorough, consensus-driven diligence process but no formal IC. As such, we can make investment decisions rapidly (especially follow-on commitments). We also have the flexibility to consider unique structures and situations.
Agility
Our Advisors