📌 The Corkboard (Upcoming Events & Workshops)
- Tuesday, May 19th —Long Journey Founders Executive Group Coaching (Virtual | 12:00-1:30 PM PST)
- A 90-minute small-group coaching session where you bring a current challenge and work through it with expert coaching and peer feedback from Long Journey founders at similar stages.
- This session is run by Shane Metcalf. Shane is the founder at 15Five and has worked with many folks in the Long Journey community as a coach - he is one of the best in the business.
- NOTE: This session is intentionally capped at 5 participants to ensure meaningful, high-impact support.
- RSVP HERE
- Wednesday, May 20th — How to Experience Design My Retreat (Virtual | 9:00-10:00 AM PST)
- In this session, Mike will guide you through the art of crafting impactful retreats for your team, covering everything from grounding in values and culture to curating heart centered experiences that leave a lasting mark.
- NOTE: This session is intentionally capped at 3 participants to ensure meaningful, high-impact support.
- RSVP HERE
- Monday, May 25th — After Hours @ Long Journey (San Francisco | 7:00-10:30 PM PST)
- The entire house will be open for coworking from 7 PM - 10:30 PM! Come get some work done alongside magically weird Long Journey folks, wander the rooms for a spark of inspiration, and stay as long as the energy feels good.
- Feel free to share the invite with other founder or builders in your network!
- RSVP HERE
- Tuesday, May 26th – 'Cofounder Lab' Executive Coaching Session for Cofounders (Virtual | 12:00-1:30 PM PST)
- A 90-minute hands-on session designed for co-founding teams to strengthen how they work together. We’re creating a container where cofounders can work on communication patterns, decision-making friction, or get a general tune-up and identify what you can improve on.
- This session is run by Shane Metcalf. Shane is the founder at 15Five and has worked with many folks in the Long Journey community as a coach - he is one of the best in the business.
- RSVP HERE
- Thursday, May 28th — How to Approach My Next Raise (Virtual | 10:00-11:00 AM PST)
- This session functions like an ‘office hours’ where you can ask questions, learn from the group and work with Lee and Venture Partner, John Bruck, on strategies to successfully approach your next raise.
- NOTE: This session is intentionally capped at 5 participants to ensure meaningful, high-impact support.
- RSVP HERE
- Saturday, May 30th - Saturday, June 27th — Edge Esmeralda (Healdsburg, CA)
- The Long Journey team would love to invite you to attend Edge Esmeralda this year - a magically weird town-meets-campus in Healdsburg, CA. It’s a space designed for founders and builders working on the frontier of tech, science, and culture. Our team will be there throughout the month, and you’re welcome to come for as many days as you'd like.
- June 1–7 | Protocols for Flourishing: Health, Longevity, Biotech, Neurotech, Consciousness
- June 8–14 | Intelligence and Autonomy: AI, Hard Tech, Governance, Privacy, ZK, d/acc, Progress Studies
- June 15–21 | Emergent Futures & World Building: Decentralized Tech, XR/VR, Creative AI, Creative Technology, Protocol Design
- June 22–27 | Environments of Tomorrow: Cities, Energy, Climate, Local Governance, Food Systems
- It’s a great opportunity to get your product in front of smart, curious people across fields and walk away with real "signals" and relevant connections. We also believe this is a great networking opportunity for founders (and a way to get meaningful work done while in community).
- If you're interested, you can grab a ticket here: https://bit.ly/4cfMaoZ no need to apply, just use code EE26-LJ-50 at checkout for 50% off. Note: Please do not share this code.
- For any questions or if you're planning on coming, please email carolena@longjourney.vc. We'd love to see you there and introduce you to some amazing people
- The Long Journey team would love to invite you to attend Edge Esmeralda this year - a magically weird town-meets-campus in Healdsburg, CA. It’s a space designed for founders and builders working on the frontier of tech, science, and culture. Our team will be there throughout the month, and you’re welcome to come for as many days as you'd like.
🏕️ Founder Field Guide (save these pages!)
- LONG JOURNEY FOUNDER RESOURCES & OFFERINGS
- New Offering: As part of the Long Journey portfolio you can get 12 months and 33 million characters of free access to ElevenLabs' cutting-edge AI audio, equivalent to over 600 hours of audio. We believe voice is the most natural way to communicate, and the future of human-AI interaction depends on making those conversations feel real.
- The ElevenLabs Grants Program exists to give early-stage startups and small teams the tools they need to build the future of AI audio with the best tools available, without cost being a blocker.
- Sign up for a grant here & select Long Journey & use code: 11longjourney293
- LONG JOURNEY FOUNDER DATABASE
🎉 Milestones!
- Otto (Photon) raised a $16M Series A led by Healthier Capital to expand its prescription marketplace and modern prescribing infrastructure.
- Aubrey (Swoop) publicly announced a $7.3M seed round and was announced as part of this year's Thiel Fellowship.
- Aidan, Kevin, Brent (DreamPark) won a Webby Award for Best Immersive Technology.
🐏 Joining the Flock?
- Zoya (Raya Health) has been on both sides of the company building journey as a founder and Digital Health VC. Now she's building an AI-powered maternal health solution that revolutionizes care by connecting patients with an integrated network of providers, including OB-GYNs, lactation consultants, doulas and more.
- Edmond (Lupa Robotics) is on a mission to engineer the hands that unlock the next industrial revolution. Edmond's background is in bioengineering and biomechanical engineering and before starting Lupa Robotics, he was a researching at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
- Peter (Mt Thor) is building in the compute space and was formerly on the Strategy Staff at OpenAI.
Until next time,
The Long Journey Team
Second Believers in the Magically Weird