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: Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Ali Partovi (Neo), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Taro Fukuyama (Pioneer Fund), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Boris Golden (Partech Ventures), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Chris Adelsbach (Outrun Ventures), Sylvain Zimmer (50 Partners), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), William Levy, Thibaud Elziere, Stephane Kasriel, Mathilde Collin, Shishir Mehrotra, Surahbi Gupta, Tien Tzuo, Ron Pragides, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kevin Weil
Mem0
Series AOct 2025$20M
$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Dharmesh Shah, Thomas Dohmke, Lukas Biewald, Charles Zedlewski, 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), Arash Ferdowsi, Darius Contractor
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), Christian Reber, Julian Shapiro, Cristina Cordova, Fareed Mosavat, Scott Belsky, Stefan Jeschonnek, Jan Deepen, Gokul Rajaram, Paul Yacoubian, Job van der Voort, Koen Bok, Johnny Boufarhat
Grain
SeedApr 2020$4M
$37M
Co-investors: Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Taylor Barada (SignalFire), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Eli Rubel (Offline Ventures), 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 (Curie.Bio), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Sandhya Hegde (Unusual Ventures), Shane Mac (Logos Labs), Ozi Amanat (K2 Global), Vishal Harnal (500 Global), Bradley Horowitz, Gabriel Jarrosson, Fareed Mosavat, Scott Belsky, Sahil Lavingia
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), Andy Chou (11.2 Capital), Jay Simons (Bond), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), Christoph Janz (Point Nine Capital), Henry McNamara (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Dylan Field, MG Siegler, Yoshinari Yoshikawa, Jared Leto, Hiten Shah, Mathilde Collin, Mike Krieger
Help Scout
SeedOct 2011$440K
$6.4M
Co-investors: Ryan McIntyre (Foundry Group), Michael Dornbrook (Speedy Packets Inc.), Walter Winshall (Collaborative Seed & Growth Partners), Dharmesh Shah, David Cancel, Jason Henrichs
Shareaholic
AngelSep 2009$360K
$7.4M
Co-investors: Rob Go (NextView Ventures), Brian Shin (VitalStage Ventures), David Cancel, Roy Rodenstein, Dharmesh Shah
SaaS enabled Marketplaces, Marketplaces, Networks, SaaS with bottoms up models (i.e. Dropbox, Slack, etc), Blockchain
Biotech, Hardware, Gov Tech,