Venture Fund Member Profile
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With over $800 million under management, Rustic Canyon Partners invests in venture capital stage and middle-market companies positioned for strong growth. We typically invest in private, growth stage companies that capitalize on opportunities created by technology change, market evolution, regulatory shifts or other factors. To date, we have invested in a broad array of technology-driven and middle-market companies in sectors such as communications, software, IT infrastructure, digital media, business and information services, materials science and efficient energy.
We invest across the equity continuum, from seed stage companies to leveraged buyouts. Our venture capital investments typically range from $2-4 million initial investment, while our investments in more mature businesses are significantly higher. We are long term investors and reserve substantial capital to support our portfolio companies through multiple rounds of financing. We prefer to take lead positions in the investments we make, though this is not a requisite. We are hands-on investors seeking to add significant value to our portfolio companies; therefore we generally require board representation and have a preference for West Coast-based companies given the footprint of our operations.
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Jon Staenberg
Partner
Rustic Canyon Partners |
on Staenberg has worked with venture-backed technology companies for 20 years in several capacities: a founder, manager, and venture capitalist. As an entrepreneur he has established two companies, served on the senior management team of several early stage organizations, and provided venture capital funding to more than 100 start-ups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised three funds totaling over $300 million.
Early in his career, Jon established several marketing groups at Microsoft where he worked from 1988 through 1994. He then joined the senior management team of Virtual i-O, a venture-backed startup, as VP of Sales & Marketing. Pursuing his passion for helping to establish and grow great companies, he has spent the last ten years raising and deploying venture capital with a focus on Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups. In 2004, Jon joined Rustic Canyon Partners, heading up their Seattle office.
Jon currently is a director on the boards of ePartners and Limelife, and serves on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Efficient Frontier, and uReach.com.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his BS, MA, and MBA.
Representative Investments
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CarsDirect CarsDirect is the leading multi-brand online car buying service, providing new and used automobiles and related products and services, such as loan and lease financing and in-demand aftermarket products including extended warranties. CarsDirect is the first online automotive marketplace to offer visitors the choice of three distinctive car buying options: buying a new car online through the company's award-winning direct channel; being matched with a top-quality new car dealer of their choice via the CarsDirect Connect channel; or locating and purchasing a used vehicle through the CarsDirect Used channel. |
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Glass, Lewis & Co. Glass, Lewis & Co. uses proprietary research and extensive analysis to objectively evaluate the corporate integrity and financial transparency of public companies and advise shareholders on the exercise of their voting rights. The firm was formed in 2003 by corporate finance, accounting, legal, financial analysis and public policy professionals, and boasts a client list that includes a substantial number of large institutional investors and pension funds. |
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Gluecode Software Gluecode was acquired by IBM in May of 2005 [NASDAQ: IBM]. Gluecode Software is an open source application infrastructure company. Gluecode’s products in business process management, security management, and enterprise portal enable a new breed of dynamic business applications that are open and responsive to change. Built on trusted open source components from the Apache Software Foundation, Gluecode products are delivered through a managed open source model that provides enterprise readiness through source code access, source-level technical support, and service-level agreements. Our customers benefit from the flexibility and control of open source while mitigating deployment risk. |
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Intersperse The Intersperse Manager® product offers key management solutions that provide vendor-independent visibility into software components across all application, integration and process servers that support Java Management Extensions (JMX). Intersperse Manager v2.0 can also be extended to integrate and manage homegrown, legacy and packaged applications. Working from a single framework that manages operational and business metrics, IT teams gain predictive capabilities that reduce operational risk and maximize system availability and performance. Intersperse was acquired by Tidal Software in July 2006. |
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