Rustic Canyon Partners focuses their investments on themes that have a transformative impact across industries and sectors within digital media, eCommerce, consumer online services and SaaS. The firm's investment activity is focused on California, but considers opportunities in other regions. Rustic Canyon was launched in 1999 by Founding Partner Tom Unterman, and is led by Managing Partner Nate Redmond.
Rustic Canyon saw four of its portfolio companies go public in its 1999 fund; the firm also backed the online real estate exchange company LoopNet, which attracted investment from 17 investment firms and went public in 2006.
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LoopNetLoopNet is a San Francisco-based company.
San Francisco
Washington, D.C.
PlayFirstPlayFirst is a San Francisco-based company.
ChromatikChromatik is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Matt Sandler.
Los Angeles
UrbanSitter (company)
MertadoMertado provides an online social shopping platform allowing consumers to discover and purchase products from communities.
Redwood City, California
Docstoc
Santa Monica, California
GaikaiCompany which provides technology for the streaming of high-end video games
Aliso Viejo, California
Ohai (company)Ohai is a San Francisco-based company founded by Blake Commagere.
Trion Worlds
LimeLife
New York
Navigating CancerNavigating Cancer is a software as a service company founded by Eva Ho.
PayDragon (company)PayDragon is a company founded by Hamilton Chan.
Good Technology is a Sunnyvale, California-based company.
Sunnyvale, California
Transonic CombustionUrbanSitter is a San Francisco-based company.
Azaire NetworksPeople
Anna Redmond
Employee
Apar Kothari
Employee
Bo Brustkern
Employee
David Travers
Employee
Edward Fu
Employee
John Babcock
Employee
Michael Kim
Employee
Michael Song
Investor
Nate Redmond
Managing Partner
Neal Hansch
Advisor
Peter Sellis
Employee
Renee LaBran
Employee
Robin Kaminsky
Advisor
Ryan Schneider
Employee
Tom Unterman
Founder
Vikas Gupta
Employee
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