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


Brigid joins Gather Ventures after building her career across investment banking and institutional investment management. Prior to Gather, she spent four years at MetLife Investment Management analyzing U.S. and European real estate companies, where she developed a disciplined approach to evaluating businesses, assessing downside risk, and identifying long-term value drivers.

During her MBA at Wharton, she also gained early-stage investing experience at Koppa Capital, where she screened 100+ companies and conducted diligence across valuation, TAM, fundamentals, and funding runway. Drawn to early-stage investing, Brigid saw the opportunity to pair rigorous analysis with a more hands-on role in helping companies grow.

Brigid earned her MBA in Finance from The Wharton School and her B.A. in Economics from Williams College, where she competed in varsity field hockey and squash.

Brigid Bruno
Senior Associate

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