Cyan Banister
Partner @ Founders Fund
San Francisco, United States
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
- Total investments:
- 149
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Cyan Banister invests in
Stages Cyan Banister invests in
Countries Cyan Banister invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $650k–$5.7M
- Angel
- $500k–$1.3M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 27 (18%)
- Internet 14 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (9%)
- Apps 11 (7%)
- Social Media 11 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 71 (48%)
- Series A 27 (18%)
- Angel 9 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (4%)
- Series B 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 107 (72%)
- United Kingdom 2 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Edgerun Industries builds military exoskeletons. Backed by Y Combinator with active development across the U.S. and international partners. | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Eragon is an AI Operating System built for companies to analyze business, connecting data, people, and processes into a single workspace. | $12M / Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Foundy is an end-to-end marketplace for full and secondary M&A for tech startups. JP Lewin's first-hand experience building and exiting his last tech marketplace startup provided him insight into the unnecessary inefficiencies, complexities and costs of running an M&A process. Now, using his mission-driven passion for modernising thisprocess alongside an injection of £1.25m in initial funding led by marketplace focussed VC, Fuel Ventures, JP and his team are completely modernising the M&A industry for tech startups. Foundy.com offers startups the opportunity to seamlessly connect with relevant buyers and M&A advisors as well as access the latest knowledge, tips and tools at minimal cost, hassle and time. Educational podcasts, blogs and tutorials as well as an M&A advisory directory and a valuation calculator amongst other resources are examples of ways in which Foundy strives to help founders and respective buyers to complete rewarding deals time and cost-effectively. We are extremely excited to be launching a range of products in 2022/3. We welcome you to sign up as a seller or buyer or join our newsletter via foundy.com. Feel free to reach out if you are a prospective investor or journalist interested in working with Foundy. Stay tuned. | $750K / Seed / Mar 06, 2026 | ||
| FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools. | $42M / Series A / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Boop offers insurance for humanoid robots and pets, positioning itself as the first consumer-friendly pet trust-fund service. | $200K / Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading. | $5.7M / Seed / Aug 20, 2025 | ||
| Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce. | $13.6M / Seed / May 19, 2025 | ||
| TrueFoundry is an Enterprise Platform as a service that enables companies to build, ship and govern Agentic AI applications securely, at scale and with reliability through its AI Gateway and Agentic Deployment platform. Its AI Gateway encompasses a combination of - LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway and Agent Gateway - enabling enterprises to manage,observe, and govern access to all components of a Gen AI Application from a single control plane while ensuring proper FinOps controls. Its Agentic Deployment platform enables organizations to deploy models on GPUs using best practices, run and scale AI agents, and host MCP servers - all within the same Kubernetes-native platform. It supports on-premise, multi-cloud or Hybrid installation for both the AI Gateway and deployment environments, offers data residency and ensures enterprise-grade compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, EU AI Act and ITAR standards. Leading Fortune 1000 companies like Resmed, Siemens Healthineers, Automation Anywhere, Zscaler, Nvidia and others trust TrueFoundry to accelerate innovation and deliver AI at scale, with 10Bn + requests per month processed via its AI Gateway and more than 1000+ clusters managed by its Agentic deployment platform. TrueFoundry’s vision is to become the Central control plane for running Agentic AI at scale within enterprises and empowering it with intelligence so that the multi-agent systems become a self-sustaining ecosystem driving unparalleled speed and innovation for businesses. To learn more about TrueFoundry, visit truefoundry.com. | $19M / Series A / Feb 06, 2025 | ||
| Nectir AI is a powerful platform that allows educators to create customizable, FERPA-compliant AI Assistants that live within the LMS. Provide students with 24/7 personalized support, lighten faculty and staff workloads, and drive measurable improvements in student outcomes. | $4M / Seed / Dec 05, 2024 | ||
| Launched at the Founder Institute, Remynt empowers consumers to rebuild credit while resolving debt, enabling creditors to gain revenue from non-performing delinquencies. Remynt buys portfolios of charged-off consumer credit card debt and offers the opportunity to earn new credit, financial management tools, community, rewards, and a savingsaccount while repaying debt to rebuild credit. The debt secures a credit charge card, which allows monthly payment reporting on an active credit account, helping consumers rebuild their credit scores more quickly. Leveraging AI, community, automated workflows, a customer-centric model, and a captive audience, Remynt empowers subprime consumers to grow their financial literacy and rehabilitate their credit. Employing best-in-class digital techniques to reach consumers, eschewing dreaded debt collection calls, and providing a tangible benefit to repayment, Remynt drives people online to resolve their debt. | Pre-Seed / Sep 02, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, andconsumer Internet.
Founders Fund Contacts
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Delian Asparouhov
Principal
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John Luttig
Principal
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Napoleon Ta
Partner
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Amin Mirzadegan
Principal
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Brian Singerman
Partner
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FAQ
What does Cyan Banister invest in?
Cyan Banister invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 149 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Cyan Banister's check size?
Cyan Banister typically joins rounds of $650k–$5.7M at Seed, $500k–$1.3M at Angel and $1.5M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cyan Banister participates in.
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When did Cyan Banister last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Cyan Banister closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 149 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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