Business continuity and disaster recovery platform company Slide has raised $25 million in Series A funding, validating its MSP-first approach and fueling its meteoric expansion.The round was led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Outsiders Fund and Top Down Ventures—investors with a strong track record and deep operational expertise in the MSP ecosystem, co-founder and CEO Michael Fass told ChannelE2E."Base10 is a very prominent tech investor that works a lot in the MSP channel, and, of course [Datto founder and former CEO Austin McChord] Austin is a founder of Outsiders Fund," Fass told ChannelE2E. "I'm also a partner at Outsiders Fund, and they continue to support Slide. Top Down Ventures has launched their own venture firm for the purposes of investing solely in MSP businesses and is a real pure-play MSP fund. It's a signal to the MSP community that we are investing for the long term, for the future, in a set of new technologies designed to substantially improve the lives of MSPs and take backup and disaster recovery into the future," Fass said.Slide was founded by Datto founder and former CEO McChord and Datto former general counsel and chief people officer Fass, and launched in February 2025 to great fanfare at the Right of Boom cybersecurity conference. At Right of Boom, McChord and Fass took to the stage to announce Slide.tech, which they touted as a company bringing "the best BCDR ever" to MSPs.McChord told the Right of Boom audience that, post-Datto, he and Fass both felt they had "unfinished business." For McChord, he couldn't quite retire, and after tinkering with some other technology and, along with Fass, becoming involved in Outsiders Fund and other pursuits, they both felt that something was still missing.That something is Slide, a backup and disaster recovery appliance that is built on a cloud-first foundation, with all flash-based storage and native data encryption. The entry-level appliance is slightly larger than an Apple Mac Studio, can store up to 16 TB of data, and it's fast, McChord said -- fast enough to saturate a 10 GB network connection.Since February, momentum has continued to build behind the company. Last week at the Pax8 Beyond annual conference, Slide demonstrated new networking features and AI integrations tailored for MSPs, McChord said."Just recently, we released a whole bunch of networking capabilities allowing people to create infinitely complex networks so they can join their cloud VMs to their local networks and vice versa," McChord explained. "And the model, context, protocol (MCP) server is also now available, and anybody can use it with the public API. You can download and use it with your Claude [AI chatbot from Anthropic] to allow LLMs use the product and understand how it works," he said. The Slide API is free and available to anyone, he added, which helps make the product more accessible and flexible."For MSPs, it enables them to accelerate stuff like, 'Can you generate reports for me? Can you find a file that I left in a folder? Can you start up a virtual machine [VM] from a long time ago? Can you join multiple systems together in a network?' All those are things that you can ask via the API, and you can be as precise or imprecise about it and it will go figure it out or ask you for follow up. That's just the beginning, but it shows what you can do when you're building this kind of modern platform," McChord said.The $25 million Series A round is further validated by the rapid expansion of its partner network, Fass said. As part of its expansion strategy, Slide is also announcing its imminent launch into Canada, including its new Canadian Data Center, effective immediately.“Slide is exactly what the BCDR space needs at this time — modern, fast, and built for how MSPs operate today,” said Michael Sirota, CEO of Rational Business Solutions, in a statement about the release. “We were especially impressed by how quickly the team addressed the Canadian MSP community demand, setting up a local data center in record time to meet data residency requirements. We’re actively working with Slide for all new clients and looking to move existing clients to the Slide platform over the coming months. We are excited to partner with a vendor that understands and supports MSPs.”The Slide Z1 appliance is available in capacities ranging from 1TB to 16TB. The Slide R1 rackmount appliance is configuraurable up to 60TB. The Slide B1 rackmount appliance is available with up to 150TB of capacity, according to the company.The funding also will be used to scale Slide’s platform development and operations to meet the surging demand for its modern BCDR solution. With this Series A investment, Slide will further accelerate research and development and expand its backup product portfolio to address today’s hybrid environments. The company’s open architecture already enables seamless integrations with leading MSP automation platforms like Backup Radar and Rewst, creating an ecosystem where tools work better together, the company said.“Getting the chance to build for MSPs again is so energizing! Datto’s story did not end how we predicted and it feels good to bring innovation back to the channel,” McChord said in a statement. “The incredible team at Slide understands the magic needed to help MSPs be successful. The road ahead is long, and this funding gives us the resources to stay independent and keep building for MSPs.”Despite its short time in the market, Slide is gaining an incredible foothold, Fass said. Much of that is due to its founders' legacy and credibility in the space, as well as the company's ethics and values, not to mention the cutting edge technology and focus on innovation."We're investing in our ability to scale, and then we're going to continue to develop the product," Fass said. "The first product we really shot out of the canon, but there are plenty of other products out there that MSPs need to back up their clients data wherever that data may live. It's been incredibly well received by the MSP community. We're signing up lots of partners. We're selling a lot of subscriptions for our BCDR product, and it's really gratifying to see that much interest in what we're doing, and the rapid adoption of our product," he said.
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Business continuity and disaster recovery platform company Slide has raised $25 million in Series A funding, validating its MSP-first approach and fueling its meteoric expansion.The round was led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Outsiders Fund and Top Down Ventures—investors with a strong track record and deep operational expertise in the MSP ecosystem, co-founder and CEO Michael Fass told ChannelE2E."Base10 is a very prominent tech investor that works a lot in the MSP channel, and, of course [Datto founder and former CEO Austin McChord] Austin is a founder of Outsiders Fund," Fass told ChannelE2E. "I'm also a partner at Outsiders Fund, and they continue to support Slide. Top Down Ventures has launched their own venture firm for the purposes of investing solely in MSP businesses and is a real pure-play MSP fund. It's a signal to the MSP community that we are investing for the long term, for the future, in a set of new technologies designed to substantially improve the lives of MSPs and take backup and disaster recovery into the future," Fass said.Slide was founded by Datto founder and former CEO McChord and Datto former general counsel and chief people officer Fass, and launched in February 2025 to great fanfare at the Right of Boom cybersecurity conference. At Right of Boom, McChord and Fass took to the stage to announce Slide.tech, which they touted as a company bringing "the best BCDR ever" to MSPs.McChord told the Right of Boom audience that, post-Datto, he and Fass both felt they had "unfinished business." For McChord, he couldn't quite retire, and after tinkering with some other technology and, along with Fass, becoming involved in Outsiders Fund and other pursuits, they both felt that something was still missing.That something is Slide, a backup and disaster recovery appliance that is built on a cloud-first foundation, with all flash-based storage and native data encryption. The entry-level appliance is slightly larger than an Apple Mac Studio, can store up to 16 TB of data, and it's fast, McChord said -- fast enough to saturate a 10 GB network connection.Since February, momentum has continued to build behind the company. Last week at the Pax8 Beyond annual conference, Slide demonstrated new networking features and AI integrations tailored for MSPs, McChord said."Just recently, we released a whole bunch of networking capabilities allowing people to create infinitely complex networks so they can join their cloud VMs to their local networks and vice versa," McChord explained. "And the model, context, protocol (MCP) server is also now available, and anybody can use it with the public API. You can download and use it with your Claude [AI chatbot from Anthropic] to allow LLMs use the product and understand how it works," he said. The Slide API is free and available to anyone, he added, which helps make the product more accessible and flexible."For MSPs, it enables them to accelerate stuff like, 'Can you generate reports for me? Can you find a file that I left in a folder? Can you start up a virtual machine [VM] from a long time ago? Can you join multiple systems together in a network?' All those are things that you can ask via the API, and you can be as precise or imprecise about it and it will go figure it out or ask you for follow up. That's just the beginning, but it shows what you can do when you're building this kind of modern platform," McChord said.The $25 million Series A round is further validated by the rapid expansion of its partner network, Fass said. As part of its expansion strategy, Slide is also announcing its imminent launch into Canada, including its new Canadian Data Center, effective immediately.“Slide is exactly what the BCDR space needs at this time — modern, fast, and built for how MSPs operate today,” said Michael Sirota, CEO of Rational Business Solutions, in a statement about the release. “We were especially impressed by how quickly the team addressed the Canadian MSP community demand, setting up a local data center in record time to meet data residency requirements. We’re actively working with Slide for all new clients and looking to move existing clients to the Slide platform over the coming months. We are excited to partner with a vendor that understands and supports MSPs.”The Slide Z1 appliance is available in capacities ranging from 1TB to 16TB. The Slide R1 rackmount appliance is configuraurable up to 60TB. The Slide B1 rackmount appliance is available with up to 150TB of capacity, according to the company.The funding also will be used to scale Slide’s platform development and operations to meet the surging demand for its modern BCDR solution. With this Series A investment, Slide will further accelerate research and development and expand its backup product portfolio to address today’s hybrid environments. The company’s open architecture already enables seamless integrations with leading MSP automation platforms like Backup Radar and Rewst, creating an ecosystem where tools work better together, the company said.“Getting the chance to build for MSPs again is so energizing! Datto’s story did not end how we predicted and it feels good to bring innovation back to the channel,” McChord said in a statement. “The incredible team at Slide understands the magic needed to help MSPs be successful. The road ahead is long, and this funding gives us the resources to stay independent and keep building for MSPs.”Despite its short time in the market, Slide is gaining an incredible foothold, Fass said. Much of that is due to its founders' legacy and credibility in the space, as well as the company's ethics and values, not to mention the cutting edge technology and focus on innovation."We're investing in our ability to scale, and then we're going to continue to develop the product," Fass said. "The first product we really shot out of the canon, but there are plenty of other products out there that MSPs need to back up their clients data wherever that data may live. It's been incredibly well received by the MSP community. We're signing up lots of partners. We're selling a lot of subscriptions for our BCDR product, and it's really gratifying to see that much interest in what we're doing, and the rapid adoption of our product," he said.
Slide Raises $25M Series A to ‘Bring Back the Magic’ for MSPs
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Business continuity and disaster recovery platform company Slide has raised $25 million in Series A funding, validating its MSP-first approach and fueling its meteoric expansion.The round was led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Outsiders Fund and Top Down Ventures—investors with a strong track record and deep operational expertise in the MSP ecosystem, co-founder and CEO Michael Fass told ChannelE2E."Base10 is a very prominent tech investor that works a lot in the MSP channel, and, of course [Datto founder and former CEO Austin McChord] Austin is a founder of Outsiders Fund," Fass told ChannelE2E. "I'm also a partner at Outsiders Fund, and they continue to support Slide. Top Down Ventures has launched their own venture firm for the purposes of investing solely in MSP businesses and is a real pure-play MSP fund. It's a signal to the MSP community that we are investing for the long term, for the future, in a set of new technologies designed to substantially improve the lives of MSPs and take backup and disaster recovery into the future," Fass said.Slide was founded by Datto founder and former CEO McChord and Datto former general counsel and chief people officer Fass, and launched in February 2025 to great fanfare at the Right of Boom cybersecurity conference. At Right of Boom, McChord and Fass took to the stage to announce Slide.tech, which they touted as a company bringing "the best BCDR ever" to MSPs.McChord told the Right of Boom audience that, post-Datto, he and Fass both felt they had "unfinished business." For McChord, he couldn't quite retire, and after tinkering with some other technology and, along with Fass, becoming involved in Outsiders Fund and other pursuits, they both felt that something was still missing.That something is Slide, a backup and disaster recovery appliance that is built on a cloud-first foundation, with all flash-based storage and native data encryption. The entry-level appliance is slightly larger than an Apple Mac Studio, can store up to 16 TB of data, and it's fast, McChord said -- fast enough to saturate a 10 GB network connection.Since February, momentum has continued to build behind the company. Last week at the Pax8 Beyond annual conference, Slide demonstrated new networking features and AI integrations tailored for MSPs, McChord said."Just recently, we released a whole bunch of networking capabilities allowing people to create infinitely complex networks so they can join their cloud VMs to their local networks and vice versa," McChord explained. "And the model, context, protocol (MCP) server is also now available, and anybody can use it with the public API. You can download and use it with your Claude [AI chatbot from Anthropic] to allow LLMs use the product and understand how it works," he said. The Slide API is free and available to anyone, he added, which helps make the product more accessible and flexible."For MSPs, it enables them to accelerate stuff like, 'Can you generate reports for me? Can you find a file that I left in a folder? Can you start up a virtual machine [VM] from a long time ago? Can you join multiple systems together in a network?' All those are things that you can ask via the API, and you can be as precise or imprecise about it and it will go figure it out or ask you for follow up. That's just the beginning, but it shows what you can do when you're building this kind of modern platform," McChord said.The $25 million Series A round is further validated by the rapid expansion of its partner network, Fass said. As part of its expansion strategy, Slide is also announcing its imminent launch into Canada, including its new Canadian Data Center, effective immediately.“Slide is exactly what the BCDR space needs at this time — modern, fast, and built for how MSPs operate today,” said Michael Sirota, CEO of Rational Business Solutions, in a statement about the release. “We were especially impressed by how quickly the team addressed the Canadian MSP community demand, setting up a local data center in record time to meet data residency requirements. We’re actively working with Slide for all new clients and looking to move existing clients to the Slide platform over the coming months. We are excited to partner with a vendor that understands and supports MSPs.”The Slide Z1 appliance is available in capacities ranging from 1TB to 16TB. The Slide R1 rackmount appliance is configuraurable up to 60TB. The Slide B1 rackmount appliance is available with up to 150TB of capacity, according to the company.The funding also will be used to scale Slide’s platform development and operations to meet the surging demand for its modern BCDR solution. With this Series A investment, Slide will further accelerate research and development and expand its backup product portfolio to address today’s hybrid environments. The company’s open architecture already enables seamless integrations with leading MSP automation platforms like Backup Radar and Rewst, creating an ecosystem where tools work better together, the company said.“Getting the chance to build for MSPs again is so energizing! Datto’s story did not end how we predicted and it feels good to bring innovation back to the channel,” McChord said in a statement. “The incredible team at Slide understands the magic needed to help MSPs be successful. The road ahead is long, and this funding gives us the resources to stay independent and keep building for MSPs.”Despite its short time in the market, Slide is gaining an incredible foothold, Fass said. Much of that is due to its founders' legacy and credibility in the space, as well as the company's ethics and values, not to mention the cutting edge technology and focus on innovation."We're investing in our ability to scale, and then we're going to continue to develop the product," Fass said. "The first product we really shot out of the canon, but there are plenty of other products out there that MSPs need to back up their clients data wherever that data may live. It's been incredibly well received by the MSP community. We're signing up lots of partners. We're selling a lot of subscriptions for our BCDR product, and it's really gratifying to see that much interest in what we're doing, and the rapid adoption of our product," he said.
Sharon Florentine
Sharon manages day-to-day content on ChannelE2E and serves as Editorial Director for CyberRisk Alliance’s Channel Brands. She also covers enterprise-class technology companies, strategic alliances and channel partner strategies. Sharon is a veteran tech journalist and editor with more than 25 years experience in the industry, and has previously held key editorial, content and leadership positions at Techstrong Group, CIO.com, Ziff Davis Enterprise and CRN.
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