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Rustic Canyon Partners

Founders Thomas Unterman

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Total investments 106
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 63
Rounds per year 4.42
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 31
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • CleanTech
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Rustic Canyon Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Santa Monica.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Rustic Canyon Partners, startups are often financed by Trinity Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Mayfield Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Trinity Ventures, New Enterprise Associates.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dollar Shave Club, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Trion Worlds. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Gaming, CleanTech.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Rustic Canyon Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Rustic Canyon Partners performs on 0 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The top activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UrbanSitter

Child Care
Online Portals
Social Network
$17M05 Oct 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Factual

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Marketing
Geospatial
Internet
Location Based Services
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
$35M10 Dec 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Navigating Cancer

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$10M20 Aug 2015 Seattle, Washington, United States

Kin Community

Content
Internet
Women's
$12M18 Sep 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

UrbanSitter

Child Care
Online Portals
Social Network
$15M14 Feb 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Dollar Shave Club

E-Commerce
Internet
Internet Retail
Personal Products
Retail
Social/Platform Software
$12M08 Oct 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Emergent Payments

Internet
Payments
$6M01 Jul 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

Chromatik

Apps
Audio
Media and Entertainment
Music
Software
$5M08 May 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Ellie

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
$2M01 Feb 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

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Total investments 106
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 4.42
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 31
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UrbanSitter

Child Care
Online Portals
Social Network
$17M05 Oct 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Factual

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Marketing
Geospatial
Internet
Location Based Services
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
$35M10 Dec 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Navigating Cancer

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$10M20 Aug 2015 Seattle, Washington, United States

Kin Community

Content
Internet
Women's
$12M18 Sep 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

UrbanSitter

Child Care
Online Portals
Social Network
$15M14 Feb 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Dollar Shave Club

E-Commerce
Internet
Internet Retail
Personal Products
Retail
Social/Platform Software
$12M08 Oct 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Emergent Payments

Internet
Payments
$6M01 Jul 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

Chromatik

Apps
Audio
Media and Entertainment
Music
Software
$5M08 May 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Ellie

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
$2M01 Feb 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States
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