Since its founding in 1999, Rustic Canyon has been one of the largest venture capital firms based in Southern California. With a second office in San Francisco, we maintain direct contact with the entrepreneurial innovation and ecosystem of Northern California. Our presence in these locations and our roots in these communities provide Rustic Canyon with extensive connections to entrepreneurs, management teams and other strategic resources to help build value for our portfolio companies and investors. Defining characteristics of the firm include:
Tightly integrated investment team with history of working together. We collaborate in investment decisions and to assist our portfolio companies.
Media heritage feeds our Internet initiatives. Experience in energy and efficiency provides depth for target cleantech sectors.
We seek to invest in emerging leaders creating new markets, before the flood of venture capital arrives. We achieve this by building expertise around a thesis than can extend over multiple years and investments.
Our team includes experience to assist from company formation, to scaling a business, to managing through acquisition or public financing. The firm has unique expertise in creative solutions to complex structures.
We invest in transformational companies, from seed-stage to growth, and are typically the first or second institutional investor in a company. Our initial investment typically ranges from $500 thousand to $10 million. We are long term investors and reserve substantial capital to support our portfolio companies as they grow.