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Cyan Banister

Angel · New York City, United States

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119 portfolio companies Angel · $1.1B invested · 141 investments · Investor rank #2,685 · Last investment 1/2026
Portfolio companies 119 ↑ 26% 5y
Decacorns 5
Thoroughbreds 17
Power Law #91Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 0.5%
Exits

Cyan Banister’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Cyan Banister’s transaction record.

SpaceX | xAI
$2.7T IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.5TSpace
Uber
$82B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $150BFood
Affirm
$15B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $31BFintech
Upstart
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $3.8BFintech
Niantic Labs
$3.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series AGaming
Postmates
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series AFood
Forge Global
$2.0B IPO · 2022
Entered SeedNow $576MFintech
Zappos
$1.2B acquisition · 2009
Entered Series B+Fashion
Portfolio analysis

Where Cyan Banister’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 119 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA113
  2. UK4
  3. Germany1
  4. India1
By sectorCount
  1. Media26
  2. Enterprise Software20
  3. Fintech14
  4. Gaming9
  5. Transportation9
  6. Health7
  7. Marketing7
  8. Security7
  9. Telecom7
  10. Education5
  11. Fashion5
  12. Food5
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed84
  2. Series A30
  3. Series B+4
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth66
  2. Breakout Stage29
  3. Late Growth24
Portfolio market map

Inside Cyan Banister’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 119 tracked.

Uber
Food · Centicorn
$150B
Anduril
Security · Decacorn
$61B
SpaceX | xAI
Space · Gigacorn
$1.5T
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Crusoe
Energy · Decacorn
$10B
Affirm
Fintech · Decacorn
$31B
Diamond Foundry
Fashion · Unicorn
$1.8B
Carta
Legal · Unicorn
$7.4B
Postmates
Food · Unicorn
$2.6B
Niantic Labs
Gaming · Unicorn
$3.5B
Thumbtack
Real Estate · Unicorn
$3.2B
Checkr
Legal · Unicorn
$4.6B
ClassPass
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$1.0B
Forge Global
Fintech
$576M
Turing
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$2.2B
Density
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
IRL App
Media
AtoB
Fintech
$388M
Contraline
Health
$120M
Upstart
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.8B
Zappos
Fashion
$928M
Agari Data
Security
$88M
soothe
Health
$124M
DuckDuckGo
Security
$236M
Superplastic
Gaming
$80M
Firstbase
Enterprise Software
$200M
Cargo One
Transportation
$168M
GreenPark
Gaming
$124M
LiveOps
Fintech
$112M
FLORA
Media
$168M
Superpower
Health
$432M
Artie
Gaming
$102M
Brave
Security
$120M
Primer
Education
$60M
Topsy Labs
Media
$21M
Ara Labs
Marketing
$88M
AI Foundation
Enterprise Software
$68M
Roadster
Transportation
$360M
HQTrivia
Gaming
$75M
TipTop Labs
Fintech
$92M
Popshop Live
Media
$100M
LeadGenius
Education
$12M
TrueFoundry
Enterprise Software
$76M
Nectir
Education
$50M
Pahdo Labs
Gaming
$60M
Drivetime
Gaming
$55M
CASHDROP
USA
$47M
Xperiel
Enterprise Software
$28M
Barndoor AI
Security
$54M
Sequel
Sports
$20M
Intermedia Labs
Media
$50M
Wardrobe
Fashion
$16M
Wonder Dynamics
Media
$36M
The Flex Company
Health
$14M
Sunroom
Media
$27M
Panda
USA
$6.6M
Lenda
Fintech
$21M
Silversheet
Health
$20M
Mother science
Wellness Beauty
$31M
Sequel
Marketing
$32M
Portfolio founders

Where Cyan Banister’s portfolio founders come from.

147 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States127
  2. Argentina5
  3. United Kingdom3
  4. Estonia2
  5. France2
  6. Germany2
  7. Cuba1
  8. Peru1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University11
  2. University of California, Berkeley10
  3. UC Berkeley, Haas Business School6
  4. Carnegie Mellon University4
  5. Columbia University4
  6. Harvard University4
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  8. University of Southern California4
  9. Boston University3
  10. Harvard Business School3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google9
  2. Yahoo!4
  3. Apple3
  4. Deutsche Bank3
  5. Intel Corporation3
  6. Meta3
  7. Palantir3
  8. Anduril2
  9. AOL UK2
  10. AutoWeb2
How Cyan Banister stacks up

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Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.