Long journey Ventures

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Venture Capital Fund

• Focus

  Early-stage investments

• Mascot

  Side-eye, bellwether sheep

• Character Alignment

  Chaotic Good

• Investment Strategy

  Second Believer

• Assets Under Management (AUM)

  $181,818,181.8

Timeline

• Guest host Cyan Banister (referred to as Sayan Bannister in a fictionalized account) announced a new fund for Long Journey Ventures and discussed her strategy of non-consensus investing. (Source: related_documents)

  2025-03

• Long Journey Ventures closed Long Journey IV, a fund valued at $181,818,181.8, doubling its Assets Under Management (AUM). (Source: web_search_results)

  2025

Cyan Banister

Cyan Banister (born 1977) is an American angel investor and entrepreneur. She is a partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. She was an early investor in Uber, Niantic, Postmates, DeepMind, Carta, Thumbtack, Flexport, Affirm, and SpaceX, and co-founded Zivity, an adult-themed social networking site. Banister was the first woman investing partner at the venture capital Founders Fund, where she led seed and early-stage investments.

Web Search Results

• Team - Long Journey Ventures

  As an operator, Scott co-founded IronPort, an anti-spam company that sold to Cisco for $830 million. He brings deep experience across both building and backing frontier companies, with early investments in Uber, SpaceX, Postmates, and DeepMind, among many others. At Long Journey, Scott serves as a Venture Partner, where he supports founders building breakthrough technologies with unconventional insight, product intuition, and a healthy disregard for the status quo. Our Team ## Luke Qin [...] Long Journey Ventures Long Journey Ventures General Partners ## Lee Jacobs Co-Founder & Managing Partner Lee is an entrepreneur turned investor, dedicated to inspiring magic in the world by helping others build what they’re uniquely meant to create. At his core, Lee is a second believer—the kind of early supporter who sees potential before it’s obvious. He’s been proud to stand behind companies like Crusoe, Together AI, and Loom in their earliest chapters. [...] Before joining Long Journey, Arielle was at Coatue, where she helped design and launch the firm’s first early-stage fund. Her experience there shaped her belief that the best venture partners don’t just write checks—they remove barriers, open doors, and walk alongside founders through the messy, magical process of creation. In her free time, she is the a part-time DJ and she hopes to able to ski 100 days when she is 100 years old. Venture Partners ## Jonathan Bruck Venture Partner

• Long Journey Ventures - Early Stage Investing for the long-term.

  We believe that money is fuel and money enables freedom. Our job is to return as much money as we possibly can to our LPs, and we don’t take that job lightly. We want to work with founders who understand and respect this value. ## Bellwethers welcome. © 2025 Long Journey. [...] If Long Journey were a Dungeons & Dragons player, our character alignment) would be Chaotic Good—a complex trait that combines a good heart with a free spirit. Chaotic Good characters make their own way, but remain kind. They value freedom and independence above all else, and they know that prosperity comes from empowering individual autonomy and looking beyond the standard mold—this is exactly what we aim to do. [...] In practice, this may look like: Checking in with founders about their lives and families. Hosting intimate events that feel like dinner at grandma’s house. Sharing personal stories. Sending freshly baked cookies. Communicating as directly as possible, but always with love. And maybe even hand-knitting some swag. ### Our character alignment is Chaotic Good.

• Long Journey Ventures - VC Fund Breakdown

  ### Collab Capital ### SIX FinTech Ventures ### Fin Capital ### Third Prime ### 7percent Ventures ### 645 Ventures ### 1982 Ventures ### Upper90 ### Founder Collective ### Conscience ## Browse All Sheets [...] # Long Journey Ventures ### Data by Harmonic ### 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley ### Endorsements given to their partners ### Future of Work funds ### Sales funds ### AI funds ### Funds that lead seeds ### Funds that lead pre-seeds ### Consumer funds ### Interplay ### Day One Ventures

• Portfolio - Long Journey Ventures

  Long Journey Ventures Long Journey Ventures ## Our journeys. ## Bellwethers welcome. © 2025 Long Journey.

• News — Long Journey Ventures

  Long Journey Ventures Long Journey Ventures # What's a Second Believer Really? "We are second believers in the magically weird." Why do we believe this? Let me explain. # Long Journey: Coming of Age We have doubled our AUM at Long Journey by closing Long Journey IV, a $181,818,181.8 fund. This business has always been personal, and today I would like to explain why it matters to me. # The Stories of Cyan [...] “Wait, let me get this straight. You are turning large fire balls coming from the ground into Bitcoin in North Dakota?” I exclaimed to Chase Lochmiller. “Yes, and one day this will power the future of AI.” Chase replied # How to Pitch Cyan A sneak peek… # Long Journey: The Beginning We’re biased, but we think we are the most interesting group of investors out there. ## Bellwethers welcome. © 2025 Long Journey. [...] Cyan has been on an adventure having conversations with magically weird humans. Get a glimpse into the “spirit of Cyan” through her life stories and beliefs. # Our Mascot: Lore of the Bellwether We believe that sheep are deeply misunderstood and quite magical. That is why we should a “side-eye, bellwether sheep” as our mascot. Here is why. # Becoming Crusoe's Second Believer