CB

Cyan Banister

Author at The Ugly Duckling

Half Moon Bay, California

Overview

Work Experience

The Ugly Duckling

  • Author

    2020 - Current

    Http://uglyduckling.substack.com The story of how I went from being homeless to becoming a VC.

Banister Capital

  • Owner

    2008

    https://angel.co/cyantist

FF

Founders Fund

  • Partner

    2016 - 2020

AngelList

  • Ev"angel"ist

    2015 - 2020

Z-

Zivity - www.zivity.com

  • Co Founder

    2006 - 2016

    Support the art you love! Zivity, a San Francisco start-up which launched at TechCrunch40 in 2007, is a subscription and vote-based artist/fan interaction platform that sits at the intersection of American Idol, Facebook and Playboy. Fans interact with artists and vote for their favorite content. Zivity’s dollar-backed votes distribute cash payments to its content producers.

SM

Signal Media Project

  • Co-founder

    2013 - 2016

    Secret for now ;-) More soon.

Hot Potato

  • Investor

    2007 - 2008

Banister Advisors

  • Recruiter

    2006 - 2008

    I no longer actively recruit, but I'll pass on resumes to companies I'm involved with, so if you are an engineer, please contact me.

I

IronPort

  • Senior Manager, Security Operations

    2005 - 2006

    Managed the SpamCop operations group which oversaw the world's largest known spammer blacklist. Spam submissions were sent in from an avid community of reporters from around the world who each individually did their part in the fight for the reduction of spam for our inboxes. The SpamCop blacklist is used as a weight in many popular spam fighting engines that protect email infrastructure for governments, large enterprises, schools and private individuals. Oversaw a 24/7 Virus & Malware threat operation center who's primary responsibility was monitoring real-time attacks and deploying rules to IronPort's world-wide customer infrastructure. Managed a team of multi-lingual rule writers for IronPort's anti-spam engine. IronPort's engineers were responsible for 99% of the efficacy of our engines and our team was responsible for the remaining 1%.

  • Manager of Strategic Support and Anti-Spam Operations

    2005 - 2005

    Created a group that continues to exist within Cisco that oversees the metrics, customer satisfaction and support infrastructure for IronPort's world-wide customer base.

  • Manager of Support, Worldwide

    2004 - 2005

  • Standards and Practices Manager

    2003 - 2004

Investments

Superpower

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Melengo

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Stell

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Orson

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

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