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59 Articles match "Rustic Canyon"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
So far a few people have commeted and said they would join in the challenge including media empress Shira Lazar and David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners.
Jason Nazar recently announced on his personal blog that he would be spending the next 30 days giving back to those in need. He explains in his post that he was inspired by a friend, Matt Cutts, at Google who kicked started his own set of 30 day challenges last year.
“for the next 30 days I’m going to do something each day to give to others.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
US Renewables Group is managed by Jim McDermott--who, aside from private equity experience and investment banking, was the founder of Stamps.com, Spoke Software, and Archive Inc--and Lee Bailey, formerly a partner with Rustic Canyon Partners. Santa Monica-based US Renewables Group , a private equity firm focused on renewable power, biofuels, and clean technology, said this morning it has created a new company, Westerly Wind LLC , to provide capital and expertise to developers of wind power systems. The firm said the new company will be headed by Joe Cofelice, who has previously
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
We finished a financing for a total of $4M recently, with top folks like Mike Jones, Brett Brewer, Kamran Pourzanjani, Matt Coffin, Robert Richards, and of course Rustic Canyon. Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Rustic Canyon Partners is part of a group investing $50M in private equity in San Francisco-based LoopNet, which operates an online marketplace for commercial real estate. According to LoopNet, Calera Capital, Trinity Ventures, and Rustic Canyon Partners are investing $50M in convertible preferred stock in the publicly held firm. According to LoopNet, the financing will provide it with additional resources in an "unprecedented market environment."
...Tags: Tags: rustic canyon venture capital loopnet realestate real es
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Santa Monica-based venture firm Rustic Canyon , along with Intel Capital, has put more into Silicon Valley-based InSync Software , a developer of software for the RFID and supply chain tracking business. Tags: rustic canyon venture capital rfid software supply chai According to InSync, it has raised $4.7M in a Series B funding from the two investors.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Michael Kim , a partner at Santa Monica-based Rustic Canyon Partners , is departing the firm at the end of the year to startup up a new fund-of-funds, Cendana Capital. According to Kim, he will become an Advisory Partner to Rustic Canyon, and transfer his responsibilities at Rustic Canyon by the end of the year.
...Tags: Tags: rustic canyon venture capital michael According to Kim, the new fund--based in San Francisco--will focus on investing in private equity, including both non-traditional private equity and venture capital investments.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
San Francisco-based investment firm Saints Capital , and Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners said Tuesday that they have formed a new fund, Saints Rustic Canyon, L.P., which has purchased the interest of nineteen different portfolio firms of Rustic Canyon Ventures, and a portion of eight other firms (note: Rustic Canyon is a sponsor of this publication, socalTECH.com). According to the firms, the sales gives liquidity to Rustic Canyon's single limited partner, which the firm did not disclose or mention, but has previously been disclosed as the Chandler Family Trust , the trust of the Chandler Family -- former owners of the Times Mirror Co. ,
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Menell , Partner at Rustic Canyon Ventures , rated 4.3333 by 12 CEOs
Michael Kim , Partner at Rustic Canyon Ventures , rated 4.1538 by 13 CEOs
Venture capital rating site TheFunded released their 2009 “most loved VCs” list via TechCrunch Tuesday — with a surprise, in that they actually had some Southern California venture capitalists ranked on the list .
The SoCal folks I noticed on the list:
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
The funding was led by new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, with participation from Series A investors Atomico, General Catalyst Partners, and Mayfield Fund. Santa Monica-based DECA has raised $10M in a new round of funding worth $10M, according to a regulatory filing. The firm's CEO, Michael Wayne, confirmed the funding with socalTECH, but said that the company would not be making any official comments until a formal announcement next month.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Rustic Canyon Partners
Sir Richard Branson is known for being a successful entrepreneur. Ten minutes alone with the guy could probably change your life if you used it correctly. An opportunity like that is usually one in a million but with the Perfect Pitch Conference taking place in Los Angeles, it’s now a very real possibility.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Last week I hosted a panel of Los Angeles Venture Capitalists with Jim Armstrong (Clearstone Ventures), Mark Suster (GRP), David Travers (Rustic Canyon), and Brian Garrett (Crosscut Ventures). There has been a lot of conjecture about how the Venture community will respond to the economic downturn. My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
with Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc and David Travers of Rustic Canyon Partners and other surprise guests. Wednesday, November 19, 2008 -- "Raising Money for Startups in a Down Market" Dealmaker LA. See [link] (mor
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Friday, July 25, 2008
John Babcock, Rustic Canyon Partners
Uri The VentureNet 2008 Selection/Screening Committee has been announced. Wow, what a prestigous list of Southern California venture capitalists, angel investors, and conference sponsors! We’re fortunate to have such a talented group that will ensure a very exciting software and IT capital conference this year.
Jim
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