Megan Lightcap

Megan Lightcap is a Principal at Slow Ventures based in San Francisco, California, where she specializes in seed and pre-seed stage venture capital investments. Before joining her current firm, she served as an investor at Initialized Capital and held various operations and growth roles within the consumer technology sector. The Stanford University graduate was recognized in the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for venture capital and maintains an active industry presence with over 15,000 followers on social media. Her investment portfolio contributions include high-growth technology companies such as the collaborative design platform Figma. Recently, she led a new investment in an artificial intelligence coding startup in March 2025 and published detailed research on AI infrastructure. Lightcap currently focuses on backing early-stage founders developing emerging technologies across software, artificial intelligence, financial technology, and consumer internet sectors.