# Brian Balfour

> Brian Balfour is a seed investor at Reforge (San Francisco) backing Software and Apps. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Reforge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reforge)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bbalfour
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bbalfour
- Website: http://brianbalfour.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianbalfour

Brian Balfour is a seed investor at Reforge in San Francisco focused on Software and Apps. Brian Balfour is the Founder/CEO at Reforge and Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures. Reforge helps top performers do the best work of their careers through advanced professional education programs. Prior to starting Reforge, Brian was the VP of Growth at HubSpot helping establish new product verticals. Brian has spent his career ongrowth and product strategy. He also occasionally write at https://brianbalfour.com.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 56% |
| Apps | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |
| Productivity Tools | 2 | 22% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 78% |
| Israel | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lassie | The AI for independent doctors. | $35M | Series A | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Vybe | Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps. | $10M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Mem0 | The Memory layer for your AI apps | $20M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Loops | Loops is a no-code analytics platform that provides product and data teams with growth opportunities hidden in their data. | $10M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Softr | Softr is the easiest way to turn your data into modern business apps — no coding or design skills required. Connect to your spreadsheet or database, customize layout and logic, and share with your team or clients. Works with Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, HubSpot, monday.com, SQL databases, and more.Join 700,000+ teams building their own clientportals, employee intranets, project management tools, dashboards, CRMs, inventory management systems, and other custom business apps. | $13.5M | Series A | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| Grain | Grain is the easiest meeting insights tool to help you understand and communicate the needs of your customers. Anybody in a customer-focused role can use Grain to record, transcribe, and clip moments from research interviews, sales calls, and customer meetings. You can capture and share insights from customer meetings like never before. No moremanual notes, full meeting recordings or sales intelligence tools. | $4M | Seed | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Loom | Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos. The company's tool helps users to capture, record, and narrate a video that can be instantly shared with a link without switching applications or uploading content. | $3.2M | Seed | May 22, 2017 |  |
| Help Scout | Help Scout offers a helpdesk and customer interaction solution using email and live chat solutions. They enable users to manage E-Mail customer support services through a ticketing system for small and medium businesses. It also provides analytics solutions to improve business decisions and can be integrated with various applications using APIs. | $435K | Seed | Oct 08, 2011 |  |
| Shareaholic | Developer of an audience engagement platform intended to accelerate audience engagement, loyalty and your online success. The company's software does this by enabling businesses to harness the power of big data to engage their prospects and customers with perfectly crafted and relevant experiences and calls to action. The platform is used byover 300,000 websites. | $355K | Angel | Sep 01, 2009 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bantam Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bantam-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Basis Set Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basis-set-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Reforge

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Reforge mission is to help experienced professionals fulfill their potential. Professional development and masters level education is a lifelong endeavor but there is a growing gap of what professionals want/need and the existing options available.

5 contacts available at Reforge.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Fishman | Executive In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-fishman |
| Akshita Ganesh | Product Development and Strategy Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshita-ganesh |
| Brian Balfour | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-balfour |
| Buford Taylor | Head Of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buford-taylor |
| Elena Verna | Program Creator & Partner (ex-EIR) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elena-verna |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Balfour invest in?

Brian Balfour invests primarily in Software, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brian Balfour last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Balfour closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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