Investing Profile

Brian Balfour(366)

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Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures

brianbalfour.comSan Francisco, California

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Current Investing Position

Long Journey Ventures Venture Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $1M

Sweet Spot

$500K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$35M

Brian Balfour is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Brian Balfour's Investments On Record (9)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Lassie	Series AJun 2026$35M	$150M
Co-investors: Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Malin Posern (Index Ventures), Susan Lin (Felix Capital), Magda Lukaszewicz (Balderton Capital), Rob Moffat (Balderton Capital), Robert Dighero (Passion Capital), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Zach Perret (Mischief Venture Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Stefan Lindeberg (Further Than Capital), Josefin Landgård (Atomico), Susanna Campbell
Vybe	SeedDec 2025$10M	$19M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Sylvain Zimmer (Partech Ventures), Chris Adelsbach (Black Tip Capital), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Ali Partovi (Airbnb, Convoy, Facebook, Uber, Zappos, etc), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Taro Fukuyama (SmartHR, Inc.), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Boris Golden (Partech Ventures), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), William Levy, Thibaud Elziere, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Mathilde Collin, Shishir Mehrotra, Ron Pragides, Surahbi Gupta, Tien Tzuo
Mem0	Series AOct 2025$20M	$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Dharmesh Shah, Thomas Dohmke, Lukas Biewald, Charles Zedlewski
Loops	SeedNov 2022$10M	$13M
Co-investors: Ariel Tseitlin (Scale Venture Partners), Max Altman (Saga), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Thomas Palm (CapitalG), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Gonzalo Martinez De Azagra (Cardumen Capital SGEIC, S.A.), Darius Contractor (Multiple companies), Arash Ferdowsi
Softr	Series AJan 2022$14M	$16M
Co-investors: Matthias Turck (FirstMark Capital), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Stefan Jeschonnek (Verbit.ai), Christian Reber (Freigeist), Philipp Moehring (AngelList Syndicator), Jaclyn Rice Nelson (Coalition Operators), Job van der Voort (Remote First Capital), Johnny Boufarhat (RingCentral Events), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Shane Mac (Squared Away), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Ashley Mayer (Coalition Operators), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Cindy Bi (CapitalX - Early Stage VC), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Jan Deepen, Paul Yacoubian, Koen Bok, Julian Shapiro, Fareed Mosavat
Grain	SeedApr 2020$4M	$37M
Co-investors: Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Taylor Barada (SignalFire), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Ozi Amanat (K2 Global), Eli Rubel (Offline Ventures), Shane Mac (Squared Away), Sandhya Hegde (Unusual Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Dalton Wright (Kickstart Fund), Ilana Stern (Peterson Ventures), Scooter Braun (TQ Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Jason Spinell (Slack Fund), Zach Weinberg (Multiple Startups/Funds), Vishal Harnal (500 Global), Sahil Lavingia, Fareed Mosavat, Gabriel Jarrosson
Loom	SeedMay 2017$3M	$210M
Co-investors: David George (Andreessen Horowitz), Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), MG Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), M.G. Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Jay Simons (Bond), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Mike Krieger (Anthropic), Andy Chou (11.2 Capital), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), Christoph Janz (Point Nine Capital), Henry McNamara (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Hiten Shah (FYI), Dylan Field, Yoshinari Yoshikawa, Mathilde Collin, Jared Leto
Help Scout	SeedOct 2011$440K	$21M
Co-investors: Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Nimay Mehta (Lead Edge Capital), Brian Lobdell (Lead Edge Capital), Michael Dornbrook (Speedy Packets Inc.), Walter Winshall (Collaborative Seed & Growth Partners), Jason Henrichs, Dharmesh Shah, David Cancel