Slide didn’t just raise $25 million, they redefined the tempo for what a modern BCDR company should sound like.
Most backup and recovery platforms out there feel like the DJ fell asleep mid-set. Slide didn’t just wake them up, they kicked in the door with an NVMe-fueled drop that MSPs have been begging for. Founded in 2023 by Austin McChord and Michael Fass, yes, the same duo who built Datto from dorm room to billion-dollar exit, the mission was never just to iterate. It was to rebuild from byte zero. This isn’t a remix, it’s a new genre.
Slide is built for managed service providers like they’re the headline act, not an afterthought in someone else’s product roadmap. It’s security-first, speed-hungry, and refreshingly allergic to legacy baggage. Think all-flash NVMe SSDs, real-time virtualization, cloud replication, and a UI that doesn’t make your techs want to rage-quit. MSPs aren’t locked into contracts. Support puts you straight through to engineers. And storage? Optimized with Slide’s Active Reclaim like a studio mastering session, tight, clean, no filler.
This $25 million Series A, led by Base10 Partners with Outsiders Fund and Top Down Ventures joining in, is fuel to scale the playbook that’s already got hundreds of MSPs bumping to Slide’s beat just four months post-launch. Canada’s getting a front-row seat next with a new datacenter and partner expansion already underway. And yes, they’re keeping the U.S. stage hot while laying global tracks. The timing’s right. The global MSP software market is screaming toward $252 billion by 2030, and 96% of MSPs say BCDR is mission-critical. The crowd’s ready.
Shout out to Austin McChord (Co-Founder + Chairman) and Michael Fass (Co-Founder + CEO) for dropping the kind of comeback the MSP world didn’t know it needed until they hit play. And respect to Carlson Choi (Head of GTM & Ops), who’s quietly running ops like it’s a world tour, formerly with Datto and Cork, this team knows the venue, the audience, and the power of a tight sound system.
From a clean-room codebase to no-storage-penalty encryption baked right in, Slide is teaching the market that speed, security, and simplicity aren’t trade-offs, they’re table stakes. And when you start with zero legacy debt and a billion-dollar chip on your shoulder, your only direction is forward.
