Investing Profile

Brian Balfour(365)

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Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures

brianbalfour.comSan Francisco, California

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Brian Balfour's investing connections

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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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

Enterprise (Series A)Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Angel, Scout, and Solo-Capitalists Consumer Internet (Pre-seed)Enterprise (Pre-seed)Consumer Internet (Series A)Enterprise (Seed)

Brian Balfour's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Vybe	SeedDec 2025$10M	$16M
Co-investors: Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Ali Partovi (Minttown), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Boris Golden (Partech Ventures), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Ron Pragides, Mathilde Collin, Shishir Mehrotra, Kelvin Beachum Jr.
Mem0	Series AOct 2025$20M	$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Dharmesh Shah
Loops	SeedNov 2022$10M	$13M
Co-investors: Ariel Tseitlin (Scale Venture Partners), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Gonzalo Martinez De Azagra (Cardumen Capital SGEIC, S.A.), Darius Contractor (Dropbox)
Softr	Series AJan 2022$14M	$16M
Co-investors: Matthias Turck (FirstMark Capital), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Philipp Moehring (AngelList Syndicator), Packy McCormick (Breather), Shane Mac (Squared Away), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Ashley Mayer (Coalition Operators), Scott Belsky (A24), Cindy Bi (CapitalX - Early Stage VC), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Julian Shapiro, Fareed Mosavat
Grain	SeedApr 2020$4M	$37M
Co-investors: Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Taylor Barada (SignalFire), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Ozi Amanat (K2 Global), Shane Mac (Squared Away), Sandhya Hegde (Unusual Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), 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 (Curie.Bio), Scott Belsky (A24), Vishal Harnal (500 Global), Sahil Lavingia, Gabriel Jarrosson, Fareed Mosavat
Loom	SeedMay 2017$3M	$210M
Co-investors: Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), MG Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), M.G. Siegler (GV (Google Ventures)), Jay Simons (Bond), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), Christoph Janz (Point Nine Capital), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Henry McNamara (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Hiten Shah (FYI), Dylan Field, Yoshinari Yoshikawa, Mathilde Collin, Mike Krieger, Jared Leto
Help Scout	SeedOct 2011$440K	$6.4M
Co-investors: Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Walter Winshall (Collaborative Seed & Growth Partners), Dharmesh Shah, David Cancel
Shareaholic	AngelSep 2009$360K	$7.4M
Co-investors: Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), TJ Mahony (Vinyl Capital), Dave McClure (Practical Venture Capital), Dharmesh Shah, David Cancel, Roy Rodenstein