Scott Banister
Angel Investor @ Long Journey Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Scott Banister is a seed investor at Long Journey Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal. Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired by Microsoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million. Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of [Zivity](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zivity), a social networking site co-founded with his wife, [Cyan Banister](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cyan-banister). He was an early investor in [Powerset](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/powerset), a startup building a natural language search engine, and sits on the company's Board of Directors. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Slide, a start-up founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com. Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
- Total investments:
- 160
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Scott Banister invests in
Stages Scott Banister invests in
Countries Scott Banister invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $660k–$6.5M
- Angel
- $500k–$1.3M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 37 (23%)
- Mobile 18 (11%)
- Information Technology 18 (11%)
- Internet 17 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 17 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 78 (49%)
- Series A 38 (24%)
- Angel 9 (6%)
- Series B 8 (5%)
- Series C 5 (3%)
Country
- United States 124 (78%)
- United Kingdom 2 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| 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 | ||
| Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative artificial intelligence models using open-source technologies. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools that support AI applicationdevelopment and production workloads. The platform also offers APIs and deployment options that enable developers and organizations to build, run, and manage language, image, audio, vision, and code models without maintaining underlying infrastructure. | $305M / Series B / Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| Validated helps you discover what customers want by simulating that your product ideas exist with hundreds of AI generated ads and observing conversion. | $5.5M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office taskswhile creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com. | $45M / Series A / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Arcee AI develops open-weight AI models and tools for building and deploying applications across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. | $24M / Series A / Jul 18, 2024 | ||
| The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 10, 2024 | ||
| Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative artificial intelligence models using open-source technologies. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools that support AI applicationdevelopment and production workloads. The platform also offers APIs and deployment options that enable developers and organizations to build, run, and manage language, image, audio, vision, and code models without maintaining underlying infrastructure. | $106M / Series A / Mar 13, 2024 | ||
| HeyMarvin connects every single person in an organization with unfiltered feedback so they can make smarter, customer-centric decisions. HeyMarvin is an AI-native customer feedback repository that brings together primary research and passive feedback channels collected through sales interactions, support tickets, and more. With advanced AI agents,HeyMarvin empowers product and research teams to capture and interpret customer insights at warp speed. Through a user-friendly AI interface, insights become instantly accessible organization-wide, enabling faster decisions and keeping every team aligned with customer needs. For more information, please visit heymarvin.com. | $6.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Long Journey Ventures
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.
Long Journey Ventures Contacts
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Jonathan Bruck
Venture Partner
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Lee Jacobs
Founder and General Partner
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Pascal Levy-Garboua
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Arielle Zuckerberg
General Partner
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Brian Balfour
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Scott Banister invest in?
Scott Banister invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 160 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 Scott Banister invest in?
Scott Banister typically joins rounds of $660k–$6.5M at Seed, $500k–$1.3M at Angel and $1.4M–$45M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Scott Banister's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Scott Banister took part in.
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When did Scott Banister last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Scott Banister closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 160 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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