1. Cyan Banister was born on 1977 and is an American angel investor and entrepreneur.
13 Facts About Cyan Banister
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Cyan Banister is a partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund.
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Cyan Banister was an early investor in Uber, Niantic, Postmates, DeepMind, Carta, Thumbtack, Flexport, Affirm, and SpaceX, and co-founded Zivity, an adult-themed social networking site.
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Cyan Banister spoke publicly about her early life at the 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt conference, from living on the streets to becoming a venture capitalist, crediting her success to incrementalism, capitalism, individualism, mentorship, and endless curiosity.
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Cyan Banister started her career in non-executive positions at NBCUniversal, where she worked in systems administration and development support from 1999 to 2001.
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Cyan Banister considered putting it in the stock market or in land, but settled on startups.
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Cyan Banister served as editor-in-chief until March 2016, when she became the first woman partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund.
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At Founders Fund Cyan Banister has invested in companies like Niantic and HQ Trivia.
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In March, 2020, Cyan Banister announced that she was leaving Founders Fund to join Long Journey Ventures to get back into angel investing.
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Cyan Banister identifies as a socially liberal libertarian, and came out in 2016 as genderqueer.
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In 2021, Cyan Banister had a Twitter account called "Recall Chesa Boudin" that argued the progressive District Attorney of San Francisco should be recalled.
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Cyan Banister donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe account started by Uber investor Jason Calacanis whose goal was to hire a researcher to investigate Boudin's office.
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Cyan and Scott Banister won the Angel of the Year Crunchie award at the 2016 TechCrunch ceremonies.