Banister backed Diamond Foundry for compute wafers, not just jewelry
Cyan Banister · Investing in the Future and the Importance of Science Fiction · Mar 24, 2025 · at 9:27
Long Journey Ventures partner Cyan Banister explains how Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age inspired her early venture investment in Diamond Foundry.
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“So I invested in diamond foundry early and the thesis behind that was when everybody thought that they were just going to make fancy diamonds that we wear for wedding rings. I thought, what is the secret here? The secret is that we're actually going to need compute and diamond wafers are going to be a thing. And also industrial diamonds, which are actually the more expensive diamonds and they're not pretty. We're going to need that for cutting for manufacturing”
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