Long Venture Partners
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Long Venture Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and E-Commerce. Long is a venture capital firm investing in early stage technology startups in China and the US. We combine local insight with a global perspective to power the ambitions of next-gen founders.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Long Venture Partners invests in
Stages Long Venture Partners invests in
Countries Long Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $2M–$22M
- Series B
- $16M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (25%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (13%)
- B2B 1 (6%)
- ISP 1 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (38%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 9 (56%)
- Romania 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sam Yu
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| SparkLayer is an elegant end-to-end headless eCommerce solution that gives you a simple way to enable B2B eCommerce on your Shopify store. It’s rapid to install, integrates beautifully with your existing systems, and gives the end customer a great ordering experience. | Seed / Apr 19, 2023 | ||
| Pathrise is an online mentorship program for tech professionals that provides training, and advice to help in landing the next job. On top of that, it is built around aligned incentives. Clients only pay if they succeed in getting hired and start work at a high-paying job first. | $3.1M / Seed / Nov 19, 2019 | ||
| Firework offers video commerce solutions built for websites, apps, and stores. They operate a storytelling platform intended to live stream videos directly on the website. The company's platform features in-video shopping, lead generation, and live streaming events and allows importing and editing videos, enabling brands to engage and converttheir website visitors. | $11.3M / Series A / Aug 15, 2018 | ||
| HelloAva is a personal skin care consultant, powered by AI, deep learning and expert real dermatologists. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 06, 2018 | ||
| Firework offers video commerce solutions built for websites, apps, and stores. They operate a storytelling platform intended to live stream videos directly on the website. The company's platform features in-video shopping, lead generation, and live streaming events and allows importing and editing videos, enabling brands to engage and converttheir website visitors. | Series A / Aug 02, 2018 | ||
| Dandy is a live dating app that builts to solve the problem of immense time and effort required by existing online dating experiences. It allows USC students to virtually connect through instant messages, without needing to meet in person. The live dating app emulates raw human behavior, as it gives students a convenient way to connect, byaddressing issues of unreliability and privacy on current dating apps | $850K / Seed / Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| Senreve is a luxury handbag company for the multifaceted modern woman. With Senreve, women are now free to go about their day with ease, empowered to better live their busy, modern lifestyles. From phone and wallet to laptop and lipstick—finally a beautiful bag that knows how to multitask.What they’ve created is a seamless blend of elegantdesign, impeccable quality, and innovative construction. Their bags are sleek, structured, and designed to carry life in style. They're also lightweight, travel-friendly, and just as appropriate for a business meeting as they are for happy hour or brunch. | Seed / Jun 15, 2018 | ||
| Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper,Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet.Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $22M / Series A / Jun 01, 2018 | ||
| Cabin (www.ridecabin.com) is the first hospitality transportation company on a mission to make the most of every waking and sleeping moment. Cabin addresses America's "500 mile problem," in which regional travel up to 500 miles from home requires sacrificing an entire day, forcing people to take fewer trips without even knowing it.By consolidating both transportation and accommodation into one simple and delightful experience, Cabin’s one-of-a-kind moving hotel experience enables people to travel without travel time. The company is backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley including Founders Fund’s FF Angel, SV Angel, Floodgate, Box Group, Brainchild Holdings, Justin Rosenstein, StartX, FJ Labs, and 1517 Fund. | Seed / May 15, 2018 | ||
| FaceRig is an upcoming program enabling anyone with a webcam to digitally embody any character they want. For now we're focusing on just the portrait, but we aim to do more in the future. Take a look and leave us a message. | $2M / Series A / Jan 09, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Long Venture Partners invest in?
Long Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 Long Venture Partners's check size?
Long Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $850k–$3.5M at Seed, $2M–$22M at Series A and $16M–$22M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Long Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Long Venture Partners?
The team at Long Venture Partners includes Sam Yu (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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