Long Journey Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Long Journey Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Long Journey Ventures focuses on identifying outliers and unique market opportunities that challenge standard industry norms across various sectors. Its investment strategy prioritizes long-term financial returns for limited partners by maintaining disciplined stewardship of capital. The firm offers a personalized support model for its portfolio companies, incorporating direct communication and community-building events to assist with business development. By emphasizing individual autonomy and creative problem-solving, the entity seeks to empower entrepreneurs who are building complex or non-traditional platforms.
- Total investments:
- 156
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $182M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Long Journey Ventures invests in
Stages Long Journey Ventures invests in
Countries Long Journey Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$9.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.3M–$10M
- Series A
- $7M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 28 (18%)
- Software 27 (17%)
- Information Technology 14 (9%)
- FinTech 11 (7%)
- SaaS 10 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 78 (50%)
- Series A 29 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 15 (10%)
- Series B 8 (5%)
- Series D 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 96 (62%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- China 1 (1%)
- Kenya 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jonathan Bruck
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lee Jacobs
Founder and General Partner
|
Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Pascal Levy-Garboua
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 30 | Find email | |
Arielle Zuckerberg
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
Brian Balfour
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monid is an all-in-one tool registry that connects AI agents to over 1,700 tools and APIs through a single integration. | $7.7M / Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Minerva Humanoids designs and develops humanoid telepresence robotic systems to execute high-risk tasks requiring human involvement. | $10M / Pre-Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Reveal develops a portable diagnostic platform using custom antibodies and a quantitative digital readout to detect over 100 chemical contaminants with lab-grade sensitivity at lower costs, helping food supply chains verify safety before reaching consumers. | Pre-Seed / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| OuterSignal provides AI-driven data enrichment and customer intelligence tailored to ecommerce and digital brands. The platform attaches 100+ demographic, professional, and behavioral signals to each customer record, drawing from publicly available sources such as social profiles, employment data, and online presence. OuterSignal builds detailed personas from this enriched data to help brands segment audiences, identify high-value buyers, and tailor messaging. The product integrates with tools like Slack and Klaviyo so sales, marketing, and lifecycle teams receive alerts and profiles directly in their existing workflows. Use cases include enhancing email lists, personalizing campaigns, prioritizing outreach, and refining lookalike audiences based on real customer attributes. | $22M / Series A / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Solcoa Industries develops carbon-zero rare earth metals for critical supply chain needs and promote sustainable industrial practices | $45M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Snag operates an AI-powered housing marketplace and rental discovery platform. | $4M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Avant Health is a Third Party Benefits Administrator (TPA) that provide healthcare plans for companies. | Seed / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Frontier Computing is a biocomputing company growing large-scale neuronal tissue, living hardware with memory baked in at the cellular level. | $10M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Edgerun Industries builds military exoskeletons. Backed by Y Combinator with active development across the U.S. and international partners. | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Idler powers intelligent systems with scalable, on-demand RL environments for research, product, or simulation. | $9M / Seed / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| See all 156 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Long Journey Ventures invest in?
Long Journey Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 156 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Long Journey Ventures invest in?
Long Journey Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$9.5M at Seed, $1.3M–$10M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$100M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Long Journey Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Long Journey Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Long Journey Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Long Journey Ventures?
The team at Long Journey Ventures includes Jonathan Bruck (Venture Partner), Lee Jacobs (Founder and General Partner) and Pascal Levy-Garboua (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 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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