Cyan Banister is the General Partner, The Frontier at Long Journey Ventures, based in United States, North America. With a background in Financial Services, Cyan Banister has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

Zappos is an online retailer specializing in shoes.  In addition to shoes they sell handbags, clothing, eyewear, watches and accessories.

The company is currently based in Henderson, NV, with a warehouse in Shepherdsville, KY. In addition, Zappos has a small number of brick-and-mortar outlet stores.

The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.

Zappos

Slide, founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, makes widgets that help people express themselves.  The company took a big risk in 2006 when they gave users the ability to auto-insert slide shows into their MySpace pages and blasting bulletins out to all their friends. They did this by asking users to hand over their MySpace credentials, and doing all the hard work for them. This is a clear violation of MySpace's terms of service, though, and most people expected Slide to receive a cease and desist letter and/or get access turned off. But that never happened, and Slide's big bet has paid off.  Slide has since evolved to offer a number of widgets.  Users create and personalize widgets on Slide.com and can then use them on social networks, blogs and desktops.

According to comScore Slide has more than 117 million unique monthly viewers.  Slide also claims more than 200,000 new Slide Shows are added to the Slide Network each day.

Slide

Liveops offers an on-demand skilled workforce of onshore virtual agents for customer service and sales. With no call center overhead or wasted idle time, our pay-per-use model scales to meet seasonal or time of day spikes in demand. More than 400 organizations across service industries including retail, healthcare, insurance and telecom trust Liveops to deliver an enterprise-grade workforce, with faster program readiness, increased revenue, and greater customer satisfaction scores than traditional call centers.

Liveops

OtherInbox is dedicated to making email better for everyone. Since 2008, we've built a series of innovative tools to help millions of people organize and improve their email. Our apps help you take control of your inbox.

OtherInbox, Inc. is proudly based in Austin, Texas and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Return Path, Inc.

OtherInbox

Topsy is a social analytics company that gives you instant answers to critical business questions through real-time analysis of public conversations. 

 Operating the world's only index of the public social web, Topsy is used by some of the largest global marketing, news, entertainment, and financial organizations to get real-time insights into a wide variety of business questions: everything from spotting breaking news and identifying customer satisfaction issues, to gauging response to TV programming and understanding political sentiment.  

Many of the world’s largest brands also use Topsy as their day-to-day social dashboard to discover and track the impact of trending topics and predict future events.  

Headquartered in San Francisco, Topsy is backed by BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Scott Banister. For more information visit: http://about.topsy.com.

Topsy Labs

Hot Potato connects friends and fans around live events. 

We're building tools for real-time social collaboration amongst groups who share an interest in any event or experience as it's happening. 

Whether checking in, recording your perspective, or just enjoying others contributions, it's more fun to participate in events with Hot Potato.

Hot Potato

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

Rapportive

Agari is the Trusted Email Identity Company™, protecting brands and people from devastating phishing and socially-engineered attacks. Using applied data science and a diverse set of signals, Agari protects the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, reducing business risk and restoring trust to the inbox.  Agari also prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, increasing deliverability and preserving brand integrity.

Agari

Mykonos Software is a private company founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur David Koretz, President and CEO of Mykonos. Mr. Koretz also founded BlueTie, Inc., the leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) email and collaboration services for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide in 1999. With ten years of experience developing AJAX Web services used by millions of customers, BlueTie is an expert at building secure and scalable Web applications. This knowledge led to the focus on Web application security and to the creation of the innovative Mykonos Web security product and the formation of Mykonos Software.

Mykonos Software

Postmates is an on-demand food delivery platform that gives customers access to restaurants and retailers. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

Postmates

ClassPass is a membership program for fitness classes across multiple gyms and studios, making working out more accessible. With over 25,000 studio, gym, and wellness partners across the globe, ClassPass connects members to a variety of classes and appointments including yoga, cycling, Pilates, boxing, massage, acupuncture, and more. It facilitates the discovery process, using machine learning to surface the most relevant recommendations to its members from a catalog of more than 5 million classes a month. In addition, ClassPass helps to lift the fitness industry daily, working directly with studio partners around the globe to merchandise their excess inventory, find new customers, and generate new streams of revenue.

ClassPass

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ridesharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request that is routed to crowd-sourced partner drivers.

Its smartphone application connects drivers with people who need a ride. Its application enables users to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services with third-party providers. They take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world. It also provides  Windows Phone App,  iPhone App, Blackberry App, and Android App. Uber serves customers in North, Central, and South Americas as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific

Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick founded UberCab in March 2009 which became Uber Technologies in October 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco California, and an engineering center in Bengaluru in India as well as a regional office in Singapore.

Uber

Hitch is the first on-demand multi-pickup solution--an iOS app offering an extremely affordable (50% of an UberX) and convenient transportation solution. Rather than booking an entire car, you only reserve the amount of seats you need, allowing them to pick up other passengers heading the same location you are. Unlike other car-sharing solutions, this all happens in real-time and requires no advance planning on your part. Simply drop two pins, and a car comes to pick you up.

By sharing the ride, cost is significantly lowered, environmental impact is minimized, and you get to ride to your favorite venue/concert/event with other people with similar interests. And their dynamic re-route algorithm makes sure that your trip duration isn't significantly affected.

Hitch

Forge Global is a private securities marketplace that serves the complex and emerging needs of the private market ecosystem by forging new connections through its technology, data, and expertise. Founded in 2014, the firm empowers investors and shareholders by facilitating liquidity in the private markets. 

Forge is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and large, global institutions including Deutsche Börse, Temasek, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, FT Partners, Draper Associates, Peter Thiel, Munich Re Ventures, and LUN Partners Group.

Forge

Teleport builds software to move individuals to the best place to live and work. It enables users to explore the best cities based on their personal preferences, and lend them a hand with preparing and executing the move.

The company aims to make physically rearranging the human population just as easy.

Teleport

Lenda is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of home loan, no fee, and cash-out refinancing. It offers an online platform that enables individuals to refinance their home loans online.

It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lenda

Roadster provides consumer-driven Commerce Solutions for today’s modern dealership. With Roadster's proprietary technology platform, dealerships can provide a hassle-free car buying in-store, online, or on the go. Roadster dramatically improves dealership customer satisfaction scores, while significantly reducing sales costs. From inventory merchandising to financing/leasing, incentives, trade-ins, service plans, and accessories.

Roadster

Silversheet revolutionizes how healthcare facilities manage their workforce, and how healthcare professionals manage their own careers. They've started by tackling a complex and critical part of the daily workflow – physician credentialing. Currently, healthcare administrators are faced with endless paperwork, faxing, and nagging and physicians are on their own to figure out the complex credential renewal process and stay up-to-date at each facility where they maintain privileges.

Silversheet is a breath of fresh air. Facilities can add a new physician in minutes, automatically verify their credentials, and invite doctors to join, empowering them to maintain their qualifications and keep facilities up-to-date and in compliance.

Silversheet

Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. 

A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a​ certificate as proof. 

We are developing technology to create unique fingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. 

For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. 

In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.

Binded

Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.

Seed

Hoodline powers hyperlocal content discovery across the US. Hoodline’s technology platform, Atlas, analyzes terabytes of unstructured data, identifies and validates the best signals, and through a combination of editorial, machine learning and data science, creates thousands of automated local stories and videos each month.

Hoodline

Upstart is a lending platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automates the borrowing process. The company's proprietary underwriting model identifies borrowers despite limited credit and employment history by using variables including schools attended, area of study, and work experience. Upstart powered banks can offer higher approval rates and experience lower loss rates*, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand.

Upstart was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California and Columbus, Ohio.

Upstart

Wonder Dynamics develops and combines AI technology with storytelling.

The media-tech startup developing an AI production tool that would allow indie filmmakers to deliver blockbuster-level VFX on a fraction of the budget.

Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic co-founded the company in Los Angeles, California.

Wonder Dynamics

Affirm is a financial technology services company providing installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.

The company was founded with the goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. It aims to revolutionize the banking industry to be more accountable and accessible to consumers. Today, Affirm provides shoppers with an alternative to traditional credit cards at the point of sale, giving them the flexibility to buy now and make simple monthly payments for their purchases. Unlike payment options that have compounding interest and unexpected costs, Affirm shows customers upfront exactly what they’ll pay each month — with no hidden fees and no surprises. Affirm partners with over 2,000 merchants to give shoppers the option to pay with Affirm at checkout including well-known brands across retail including home furnishings, travel, personal fitness, electronics, apparel and beauty, and more. Loans are made in partnership with Afirm’s originating bank partner Cross River Bank, a New Jersey State Chartered Commercial Bank, Member FDIC.

Jeffrey Kaditz, Max Levchin, and Nathan Gettings established the San Francisco, California-based company in 2012.

Affirm

Cyan Banister

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
May 12, 2022	TipTop	Series A - TipTop	23.0M
Nov 01, 2022	Mother Science	Seed Round - Mother Science	6.2M
Jun 20, 2023	Orson	Seed Round - Orson	3.0M
Apr 10, 2024	Superpower	Pre Seed Round - Superpower	4.0M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Jun 15, 2021	IRL	Series C - IRL	Founders Fund	170.0M
Jul 07, 2021	-	Series A - Popshop Live	Long Journey Ventures	20.0M
Feb 01, 2024	Stell	Seed Round - Stell	Long Journey Ventures	4.0M
Apr 01, 2024	-	Pre Seed Round - Melengo	Long Journey Ventures	2.1M

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General Partner, The Frontier

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Cyan Banister has made 91 investments. Their Latest investment was Pre Seed Round - Superpower on Apr 10, 2024

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