Slide provides an always-encrypted backup and disaster recovery platform, with its own appliances, built for MSPs.

Slide was founded by Austin McChord, Michael Fass.

Who are Slide's investors?

Slide's investors include Connecticut Innovations, Glynn Capital Management, Outsiders, Vine Ventures, Benchstrength Partners, TampaBay.Ventures.

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Slide builds an encrypted backup and disaster recovery (BCDR) platform, including its own hardware appliances, designed for managed service providers (MSPs). The product offers an open API, workflow automation, and search across devices, backups, and files.

Also known as Project Orca, Inc.

Cybersecurity Hardware SaaS

Founders & leadership

Austin McChord Co-Founder, ChairmanCo-Managing Partner at Outsiders

Michael Fass Co-Founder, CEOHe previously spent his career at Datto, where he served as a continuous executive leader through the company's growth from a 100-person startup to a publicly-traded enterprise.

Carlson Choi COOHe has held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries, with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation, P&L management, and enterprise technology.

Phil Heckel Head of EngineeringPhil Heckel is a software engineer and architect with experience designing and building scalable systems across multiple platforms and languages, including Go, Python, Java, and others. He has developed expertise in Linux and systems engineering through work on backup systems, and maintains the open-source push notification service ntfy.

Adrienne Hoffmann Head of Human ResourcesShe has held HR leadership roles across technology, media, professional services, and financial services companies, including experience in high-growth and private equity-backed environments, with a background in building and managing multinational teams.

Angie MechamChief of Staff

Sergio EspinosaCo-Head of Product

Nick Chory Co-Head of ProductNick Chory is Co-Head of Product at Slide, an encrypted backup and disaster recovery platform for managed service providers. He has experience in product leadership, roadmap execution, pricing strategy, and cloud cost analytics.

Zac ShannonHead of CX and AI Automation

Investors · 7

Connecticut Innovationslisted by Connecticut InnovationsNew Haven · $500K – $2M

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Glynn Capital Managementlisted by Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park

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Outsiderslisted by OutsidersNorwalk · $500K – $8M

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Vine Ventureslisted by Vine VenturesNew York · $1M – $10M

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Benchstrength PartnersreportedNew York

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TampaBay.VenturesreportedTampa

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Also in the syndicate · 1

Gries Investment Fundslead

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

Undisclosed amountSeries AJun 2025
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Undisclosed amountSeries ANov 2021
Gries Investment Funds (lead), Tampa Bay Ventures (lead)
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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Slide develops a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) platform positioned as always-encrypted and aimed at managed service providers. The company states the platform was built from scratch without legacy technical debt, and highlights three core capabilities: an open API for integrating, extending and automating Slide inside existing MSP tools and workflows; workflow automation that converts repetitive backup, recovery and management tasks into hands-off processes; and a search function covering devices, backups, files and events.

Alongside the software, Slide offers a hardware appliance. Published specifications include NVMe SSD storage in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 5TB, 6TB and 8TB capacities on M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x2 slots, 32GB DDR5 4800MHz memory on 1-2TB configurations and 64GB on 3-8TB configurations, an AMD Ryzen 7 HX 255 CPU with 8 cores / 16 threads, a 3.8 GHz base clock and 16MB L3 cache, and connectivity comprising one 40Gbps USB4 port, one 40Gbps USB Type-C port, two 10Gbps USB 3.2 ports, two USB 2.0 ports and a 10Gbps LAN port. The website operates under the corporate name Project Orca, Inc.

Business model

Slide sells its BCDR platform to MSPs on month-to-month subscriptions with no long-term commitments, bundling unlimited agents and direct-to-engineer technical support, and supplies accompanying appliance hardware in a range of storage capacities.

Subscription pricing billed month-to-month, without long-term contractual commitments, and with unlimited agents included.

Traction

The company states that over 1,000 MSPs have partnered with Slide to protect their data.

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Market position

Markets itself as a security-focused alternative to established BCDR vendors for the MSP channel, reporting partnerships with more than 1,000 MSPs.

Positions itself against legacy backup solutions on the basis of always-on encryption, a from-scratch architecture, an open API, month-to-month terms with unlimited agents, and direct access to engineers for support.

Technology

A purpose-built BCDR platform described as always-encrypted and built without legacy technical debt, exposing an open API, workflow automation and cross-entity search over devices, backups, files and events, paired with x86 appliances using AMD Ryzen 7 HX 255 processors, DDR5 memory and NVMe SSD storage.

Go-to-market

Direct engagement through website demo requests, positioning around ease of migration from incumbent backup vendors, and channel-oriented messaging to MSP partners.

Managed service providers responsible for protecting client data; the company describes an "MSP-first" approach.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported

HeadcountAug 202685

MSP partnersJan 20261,000 MSPs

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Related companies · 1

CanvaDesign platform; Blackbird invested when it was just an idea and in every round since.

Companies working in the same space as Slide.

▸Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

Slideslide.tech · web

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Frequently asked questions

What does Slide do?: Slide provides an always-encrypted backup and disaster recovery platform, with its own appliances, built for MSPs.
Who founded Slide?: Slide was founded by Austin McChord, Michael Fass.
Who are Slide's investors?: Slide's investors include Connecticut Innovations, Glynn Capital Management, Outsiders, Vine Ventures, Benchstrength Partners, TampaBay.Ventures.