Cyan Banister (born 1977) [1] is an American angel investor and entrepreneur. She is a partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. [2] She was an early investor in Uber, Niantic, Postmates, DeepMind, Carta, Thumbtack, Flexport, Affirm, and SpaceX, [3] and co-founded Zivity, an adult-themed social networking site. [4]

Oct 11, 2016 · Cyan Banister is an accomplished angel investor who, along with her husband, won TechCrunch’s Angel of the Year award last spring for prescient bets on SpaceX, Uber, and DeepMind...

Mar 19, 2025 · Long Journey is co-led by Cyan Banister, a venture world fixture known for more than a decade of seed investing, and a later role at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. She’s joined by Arielle ...

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Nov 28, 2024 · Cyan Banister is a general partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments. Cyan was an early investor in Uber, SpaceX, DeepMind, Flexport, and Affirm and has invested in more than 100 companies.

Apr 17, 2023 · Cyan Banister is an American investor and entrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the early investors and co-founders of start-ups such as Uber, Niantic, DeepMind and Space X. In addition, she is also a co-founder of Zivity an adult-themed social networking site.

Mar 19, 2025 · Cyan Banister, Arielle Zuckerberg Firm Raises $181.8 Million to Back ‘Magical Weirdos’ Long Journey Ventures has nurtured an appetite for off-beat startups. Facebook

Sep 5, 2018 · This morning at TechCrunch SF 2018, Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister shared her inspirational journey from a homeless teen at the age of 15 to now a venture capitalist who’s invested in...

Jan 11, 2025 · As a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, and advocate for diversity, she has left an indelible mark on tech and investment sectors. Today, at 47 years old (born May 1976), Cyan Banister stands as a testament to overcoming adversity and harnessing innovation for transformative change.

Nov 29, 2024 · Cyan Banister: An activist investor is someone who invests in a company and decides that they want to play CEO or operator and they start telling the founders and the employees what they should be doing with their company. And if you’ve structured your company correctly, you can take that advice and then tell them to pound sand.