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Long Journey Ventures
✓ Verified data🇬🇧 UK-activeSeed VC·New York, Multiple / global·Partner: Brian Balfour·writes lead cheques
Champion of founders others dismiss, offering unusually devoted partner support—tattooed partners and niche-event participation—intimate dinners, home-baked cookies, tough-love feedback, and Jewish-values, chaotic-good guidance on contentious frontier bets.
Cheque range (GBP)
£79K – £790K
Typical: $100K - $1M
Last cheque
5mo ago
quieter recently
Rounds (12mo)
4
none in last 90d
Tracked portfolio
4
since 2026
Recent investments
5 tracked rounds via funding databases| Company | Amount | When |
|---|---|---|
| Artemis ↗ Provides AI-powered design sales financing and compliance automation for distributed energy | $6M | 5mo ago |
| Ownwell ↗ Manages property tax appeals and exemptions for homeowners to reduce tax bills using technology and local expertise | $50M | 5mo ago |
| Inertia Enterprises ↗ Inertia is the commercial fusion energy company. | $450M | 5mo ago |
| FLORA ↗ Builds unified creative environment for generative workflows | $42M | 6mo ago |
Volteras A data management platform for EVs founded in 2020 by Peter Wilson. | 11.1M USD | 1.2y ago |
Stages backed
Series A3 · 75%
Series B1 · 25%
Markets backed
Sectors & focus
technologydeeptechaidefenceenergyConsumerfintechclimate techcybersecuritySaaSproptechcreator economyretail techfood agtech
Business models
Deep tech, Consumer, Hardware
Other portfolio companies
1 from public sourcesFrequent co-investors
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