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    Long Journey Ventures

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 2019

    Long Journey Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on "magically weird" companies, seeking out unconventional ideas and bold founders in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds across diverse sectors. Their strategy involves a "Federation of Angels/Operators" model, providing founders with support from experienced veterans.

    Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (14 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (47% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $83.0M (across 41 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    43

    Fund Size

    $182M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    14

    Team

    Cyan Banister

    Cyan Banister

    Co-Founder & General Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    43 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    AAtlysSeries C$36MMar 2026
    AAnchrSeed$5.8MMar 2026
    DDealFlowAgentSeed$750KMar 2026
    Inertia Enterprises logoInertia EnterprisesSeries A$450MFeb 2026
    Flora logoFloraSeries A$42MJan 2026
    GoodDay Software logoGoodDay SoftwareSeries A$7MJan 2026
    Unusual logoUnusualSeed$3.6MJan 2026
    Truemed logoTruemedSeries A$34MDec 2025
    Crusoe logoCrusoeSeries E$1.4BOct 2025
    Heave logoHeaveSeries A$7MAug 2025
    Wingspan logoWingspanSeries B$24MJul 2025
    Vultron logoVultronSeries A$22MJul 2025
    Volteras logoVolterasSeries A$11.1MMay 2025
    Throne logoThroneSeed$4MMay 2025
    Together AI logoTogether AISeries B$305MFeb 2025
    Crusoe logoCrusoeSeries D$600MDec 2024
    Abel logoAbelSeed$5MOct 2024
    Numeric logoNumericSeries A$28MOct 2024
    PPhoton HealthSeed$9MAug 2024
    Numeric logoNumericSeed$10MMay 2024
    Rainmaker Technology logoRainmaker TechnologySeed$6.3MMay 2024
    Bedrock Energy logoBedrock EnergySeed$8.5MOct 2023
    Stoke Space logoStoke SpaceSeries B$100MOct 2023
    Wand.app logoWand.appSeed$4.2MAug 2023
    SSaneSeed$1.3MJul 2023
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    Top Co-Investors

    Y Combinator5 shared
    BoxGroup3 shared
    NFX3 shared
    Salesforce3 shared
    Nvidia3 shared
    NextView Ventures2 shared
    8VC2 shared
    Friends & Family Capital2 shared
    Access Industries2 shared
    SV Angel2 shared

    Last updated: 15 April 2026