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Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Rustic Canyon
Rustic Canyon
This firm files as 3 advisers on rusticcanyon.com: Neon Bright Management, LLC, Romulus Capital Management, LLC. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
Ark Private Equity Software
venture manager, reported GAV $20.5M across 1 vehicles
Importance
10
low
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
2
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 1025 WESTWOOD BLVD., FLOOR 2, Los Angeles, CA, 90024adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 323-579-2050adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.RUSTICCANYON.COM
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 29, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $20.5Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 323-579-2050adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors: no observed deals yet
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
1 reported, 3 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rustic Canyon Ventures III, LP | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $20.5M Mar 29, 2024 | 23 | unknown | unknown |
| Rustic Canyon Ventures Extension Fund, LLC | Continuation vehicle | 2013 adv first reported | Wound down | $2.8M Oct 10, 2018 | 1 | unknown | unknown |
| Rustic Canyon Ventures SBIC, LP | Fund | unknown | Wound down | $80.5M Apr 17, 2013 | 55 | unknown | unknown |
| RCV- Hyperquality, LP | Fund | unknown | Wound down | $0 Apr 17, 2013 | 5 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
3 current, 5 departed
David Travers
PartnerMember · since Jan 1, 2011
Nate Redmond
PartnerMember · since Sep 1, 2003
TOM Unterman
PartnerMember · since Jan 1, 2000
5 departed (kept with end dates)
- John Babcock · Member · Jan 1, 2000 to Mar 28, 2013 Inference
- Mark Steven Menell · Member · Jan 1, 2000 to Mar 28, 2013 Inference
- Michael Song · Member · Jan 1, 2000 to Mar 28, 2013 Inference
- Neal Thomas Hansch · Member · Jan 1, 2011 to Apr 1, 2014 Inference
- Renee Elizabeth Labran · Member · Jan 1, 2000 to Mar 28, 2013 Inference
Investments on record
0 edges, 0 companies, 0 partner-attributed
No investment on record yet. Edges arrive from the firm’s portfolio page, financing announcements, and Form D board seats.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
1 disclosed
Timeline
16 dated events
- Dec 31, 2025LACERS reports Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners: $5,000,000 committed, vintage 2005, net IRR -5.0%, 0.7x
- Mar 29, 2019Rustic Canyon Ventures Extension Fund, LLC no longer reported on Form ADV by Rustic CanyonFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceRustic Canyon Ventures Extension Fund, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Apr 1, 2014Neal Thomas Hansch (Member) no longer on Schedule A of Rustic Canyon
- Apr 1, 2014Rustic Canyon Ventures SBIC, LP no longer reported on Form ADV by Rustic CanyonFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceRustic Canyon Ventures SBIC, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Apr 1, 2014RCV- Hyperquality, LP no longer reported on Form ADV by Rustic CanyonFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceRCV- Hyperquality, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Apr 17, 2013Rustic Canyon Ventures Extension Fund, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Rustic Canyon (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $5,081,093Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRustic Canyon Ventures Extension Fund, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 28, 2013Mark Steven Menell (Member) no longer on Schedule A of Rustic Canyon
- Mar 28, 2013John Babcock (Member) no longer on Schedule A of Rustic Canyon
- Mar 28, 2013Renee Elizabeth Labran (Member) no longer on Schedule A of Rustic Canyon
- Mar 28, 2013Michael Song (Member) no longer on Schedule A of Rustic Canyon
- Jan 29, 2013Saints Rustic Canyon, LP no longer reported on Form ADV by Rustic CanyonFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceSaints Rustic Canyon, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2012Rustic Canyon first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2012Saints Rustic Canyon, LP first reported on Form ADV by Rustic Canyon (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $113,056,213Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSaints Rustic Canyon, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2012RCV- Hyperquality, LP first reported on Form ADV by Rustic Canyon (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $673,807Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRCV- Hyperquality, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2012Rustic Canyon Ventures SBIC, LP first reported on Form ADV by Rustic Canyon (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $87,181,459Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRustic Canyon Ventures SBIC, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2012Rustic Canyon Ventures III, LP first reported on Form ADV by Rustic Canyon (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $210,212,727Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRustic Canyon Ventures III, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $20.5M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
40 observations from 2 sources