# Scott Marlette

> Scott Marlette is a seed investor at Slow Ventures (Santa Monica) backing Fitness and Wellness. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures)
- Location: Santa Monica, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2018
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmarlette
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/marlette
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scott

Scott Marlette is a seed investor at Slow Ventures in Santa Monica focused on Fitness and Wellness. For two decades, Scott has been a pioneer in building tools and resources that help consumers live better lives. He was one of the first employees at Facebook, first as an engineer and then as a product manager. He developed Facebook Photos and oversaw development for Groups, Events and Inbox. Scott helped Facebook become the leading photo siteworldwide. In 2011, Scott was honored as a TechFellow in the category of Engineering Leadership. He holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fitness | 2 | 33% |
| Wellness | 2 | 33% |
| Health Care | 2 | 33% |
| iOS | 1 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ample Foods | Ample Foods creates optimally nutritious meal replacements for busy, health-conscious people.It is on a mission to make good nutrition so simple that everyone can lead a healthier, more productive life.It creates satisfying, drinkable meals made from nutritious ingredients for busy, health-conscious people. Its three great-tasting formulas(ketogenic, plant-based, and high protein) combine all-natural ingredients with a balanced nutritional profile grounded in science. Ample Foods is well-positioned in the growing $18 billion meal replacement category where market leaders are out-of-touch with changing consumer demands for higher quality products.Ample often becomes a daily staple in our customer's diets trying to lead healthier lives conveniently.To date, we've raised $4.2 million from Slow Ventures, Compound, and LivWell Ventures, and value-additive angels. | $2M | Seed | May 08, 2018 |  |
| krypt.co | krypt.co builds the next generation of mobile-based authentication, with a vision that authentication should be based on strong cryptography. Public key cryptography has existed for almost 40 years but it’s barely used for authentication. The private key is not memorizable. Most people cannot compute digital signatures in their head. Thereforewe need to store the private key somewhere. It has to be accessible but also kept a secret. At KryptCo, they tackles this very problem and believes that smartphone is core to the solution. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 05, 2017 |  |
| uBiome | uBiome is a citizen science startup that sequences the human microbiome. As the first and largest successful crowdsourced citizen science project in history, we allow the public access to cutting edge sequencing technology and are building a data platform to gather, analyze, and translate data about the human microbiome. We have developed thefirst sequencing-based, clinical microbiome tests and are committed to empowering patients and their healthcare providers to understand and take greater control of their health. We provide actionable insights and information to help foster understanding about the microbiome and the role it plays in health and wellness.union's mission is to transform research into useful products based on the microbiome.uBiome is the world’s first effort to map the human microbiome with citizen science.While the sequencing of the human genome has provided invaluable knowledge, it is very difficult to change their own genetic makeup. The microbiome, in contrast, is much more easily changed through simple means such as healthful probiotic cultures and other lifestyle interventions. The microbiome thus may provide some of the most important medical breakthroughs of their era. uBiome will ultimately empower participants to manage their microbiomes to improve their health as well as make important scientific discoveries for humanity. | $22M | Series B | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| Skurt | Skurt is a technology and logistics platform that offers the easiest way to get access to a car, and drive. With just a few taps users can have a car delivered right to their home, hotel or office and drive, anywhere. Customers request a rental on their phone and can have a car delivered to them within 60 minutes of booking. When they’re done, theyset up a pick-up time and someone comes to get the car from wherever they are. Skurt is currently operating in Los Angeles, San Diego and Miami on both iOS and Android, and has delivered “tens of thousands of cars.” | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 06, 2015 |  |
| PicnicAI | PicnicHealth is all about making medical records easy to access and using data to power the next frontier of medical research. We’re led by the belief that there’s power in medical information when it’s used well, and that every person has a right to their own theirs. And we've built award-winning machine learning to do it.How? PicnicHealthworks directly with patients to give them the only tool anywhere that truly provides all of their medical records from any doctor or healthcare system in the US—in an easy-to-use, secure online dashboard. Not only that, but patients can choose to contribute their data to scientific research, which helps life sciences researchers accelerate breakthroughs in care. Researchers use this anonymized “real-world data” to understand how diseases are experienced by patients and treated by clinicians in the real world, going beyond the highly controlled setting of clinical trials. The goal is to create better treatments that can ultimately improve outcomes for patients.Whether you’re a scientist, engineer, or patient yourself, we’re looking for passionate people to join us in redefining an industry during our next stage of growth. To date we’ve helped tens of thousands of patients, partnered with some of the world’s largest biopharma companies, and raised more than $35M from Felicis Ventures, Amplify Partners, Foresite Capital, Refactor Capital, and Y Combinator. | $2M | Seed | Apr 02, 2015 |  |
| Burner | Ad Hoc Labs, makers of Burner is a privacy layer for your phone, providing alias phone numbers at the push of a button. |  | Angel | Oct 18, 2012 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LivWell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/livwell-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Compound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metamorphic-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Refactor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/refactor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAFM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverside-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Slow Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.

5 contacts available at Slow Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clay Robbins | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clay-robbins-d3a6 |
| Scott Marlette | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-marlette |
| Will Quist | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-quist |
| Allie Wagner | Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allie-wagner |
| Kevin Colleran | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-colleran |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Marlette invest in?

Scott Marlette invests primarily in Fitness, Wellness and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Scott Marlette last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Marlette closed in May 2018. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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