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Cyan Banister

Angel investor · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026

Cyan Banister is an angel investor based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2010. The page below shows 20 Power Law outcomes from Cyan Banister's portfolio — 18 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK. Cyan Banister ranks #91 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

20 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #91 · Global · 20 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 12% 5y
18
Decacorns ↑ 25% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 7% 5y
17
01 · Exits

Cyan Banister’s biggest exits.

Cyan Banister portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$82.0B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $153B
$23.9B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $28.4B
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.0B
$3.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series A
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Seed
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 20 Cyan Banister Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA19
  2. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  2. Fintech4
  3. Other B2B Software3
  4. Other2
  5. Cybersecurity2
  6. AI1
  7. Transportation1
  8. Energy1
  9. Space1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+4
  2. Series A7
  3. Seed8
04 · Portfolio market map

Cyan Banister's 20 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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20 of 20 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Cyan Banister stack up?

Cyan Banister in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Cyan Banister's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

59 founders across the 20 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States42
India10
Mexico1
Russia1
Canada1
United Kingdom1
Germany1
Ukraine1
China1
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UniversityCount
Carnegie Mellon University5
Stanford University4
Syracuse University3
University of Michigan3
Cornell University3
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2
Harvard University2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
University of Michigan-Dearborn2
UCLA2
+19 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google4
Palantir3
Yahoo!2
Nvidia1
Akamai1
Uber1
Zynga1
Yelp1
Chainalysis1
Apple1
+14 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Cyan Banister.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Cyan Banister

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cyan Banister on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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