Cyan Banister / Long Journey Ventures

**Cyan Banister** is a partner at **Long Journey Ventures** (with Immad Akhund) and one of the most unconventional investors in technology. With 130+ investments including Uber, SpaceX, DeepMind, Niantic, and Thumbtack, she has built a portfolio that spans moonshots and everyday consumer products. She was the first woman to join **Founders Fund** as an investment partner, Peter Thiel's legendary venture firm, where she honed her contrarian instincts alongside some of the most iconoclastic thinkers in Silicon Valley.