Investing Profile

Brian Balfour(363)

AngelVCInvestor
Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures
brianbalfour.comSan Francisco, California
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40 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), and 37 other investors on Signal.

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Long Journey Ventures Venture Partner
$100K - $1M
$500K
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$35M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Vybe
SeedDec 2025$10M
$19M
Co-investors: Ali Partovi (Neo), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Sylvain Zimmer (50 Partners), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Chris Adelsbach (Outrun Ventures), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Taro Fukuyama (Pioneer Fund), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Boris Golden (Partech Ventures), Mathilde Collin, Ron Pragides, Shishir Mehrotra, Thibaud Elziere, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kevin Weil, Tien Tzuo, William Levy, Surahbi Gupta
Mem0
Series AOct 2025$20M
$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Thomas Dohmke, Lukas Biewald, Charles Zedlewski, Dharmesh Shah, Scott Belsky
Loops
SeedNov 2022$10M
$13M
Co-investors: Ariel Tseitlin (Scale Venture Partners), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Max Altman (Saga), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Thomas Palm (CapitalG), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Gonzalo Martinez De Azagra (Cardumen Capital), Darius Contractor, Arash Ferdowsi
Softr
Series AJan 2022$14M
$16M
Co-investors: Matthias Turck (FirstMark Capital), Philipp Moehring (AngelList Syndicator), Ashley Mayer (Coalition Operators), Cindy Bi (CapitalX), Jaclyn Rice Nelson (Coalition Operators), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Shane Mac (Logos Labs), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Jan Deepen, Stefan Jeschonnek, Gokul Rajaram, Paul Yacoubian, Koen Bok, Job van der Voort, Johnny Boufarhat, Christian Reber, Julian Shapiro, Cristina Cordova, Fareed Mosavat, Scott Belsky
Grain
SeedApr 2020$4M
$37M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Taylor Barada (SignalFire), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Ozi Amanat (K2 Global), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Scooter Braun (TQ Ventures), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Eli Rubel (Offline Ventures), Sandhya Hegde (Unusual Ventures), Shane Mac (Logos Labs), Dalton Wright (Kickstart Fund), Ilana Stern (Peterson Ventures), Jason Spinell (Slack Fund), Zach Weinberg (Curie.Bio), Vishal Harnal (500 Global), Sahil Lavingia, Fareed Mosavat, Scott Belsky, Gabriel Jarrosson, Bradley Horowitz
Loom
SeedMay 2017$3M
$210M
Co-investors: Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), M.G. Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Andy Chou (11.2 Capital), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Henry McNamara (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), Christoph Janz (Point Nine Capital), Jay Simons (Bond), Dylan Field, Jared Leto, Hiten Shah, Yoshinari Yoshikawa, MG Siegler, Mike Krieger, Mathilde Collin
Help Scout
SeedOct 2011$440K
$6.4M
Co-investors: Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Michael Dornbrook (Speedy Packets Inc.), Walter Winshall (Collaborative Seed & Growth Partners), David Cancel, Dharmesh Shah, Jason Henrichs
Shareaholic
AngelSep 2009$360K
$7.4M
Co-investors: Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), David Cancel, Dharmesh Shah, Roy Rodenstein
SaaS enabled Marketplaces, Marketplaces, Networks, SaaS with bottoms up models (i.e. Dropbox, Slack, etc), Blockchain
Biotech, Hardware, Gov Tech,