Rustic Canyon
Micro VC, based in Los Angeles, California, reporting $20.5M of fund assets across 1 fund.
Composed from this organization's classification, location and filed figures.
2 additional team members, 3 additional investments, funds and LPs, 11 events, 1 verified contact (1 firm phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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What matters now
- 4 dealswith Trinity Ventures
Invests most often alongside Trinity Ventures (4 shared deals).
pair last observed on record 25 Apr 2013, not a deal date · The firms it syndicates with are the likeliest to see the same deals and to fill out its rounds.
Measuredshared rounds and portfolio companies on recordFor Founders building a round, co-investorsCo-investors →
People to know
View all people- MemberWhy: Named with investment responsibilityNo route on file yet
- MemberWhy: Named with investment responsibilityNo route on file yet
- MemberWhy: Named with investment responsibilityNo route on file yet
Relationship network
16 connected entities8 observed rounds4 repeat counterparties7 dated rounds shown here, 2009 to 2013
From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.
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Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.
Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
How am I connected?
Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Rustic Canyon: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.
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Investing
8 companies on record, 0 new in 12 months
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayFirst Inc | Form D equity offering | unknown · board | Nate Redmond (strongly supported) | $2.0M form d sold | unknown | Apr 25, 2013 | Inference Form D |
| Perfect Market, Inc. | Form D equity offering | unknown · board | Nate Redmond (strongly supported) | $385,000 form d sold | unknown | Dec 8, 2011 | Inference Form D |
| Insync Software Inc | Form D equity offering | unknown · board | Neal Thomas Hansch (strongly supported) | $199,999 form d sold | unknown | Apr 29, 2010 | Inference Form D |
- 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
Team
7 current, 5 departed
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
- Member · 5 deals attributed
- Member · 1 deal attributed
- Member
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
1 firm phone on record, each with its source. Values open with the complete profile.
Funds and LPs
1 vehicle, 1 LPs disclosed
| 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 |
- 1 commitment · $5.0M disclosed
| Allocator | Type | Fund | Amount | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System | MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM | Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners at Rustic Canyon | $5.0M committed | reported as of Dec 31, 2025 | Fact Pension disclosure |
Relationships across DFX
3 co-investors · on 1 other DFX graph
- 2013-04-254 shared deals · strong
- 2009-07-291 shared deal · one time
- 2009-07-291 shared deal · one time
Across DFX and the capital chainon 1 other DFX graph · 1 capital path ShowHide
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Rustic Canyon is the same institution as 1 record in Allocators.
The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.
Checking your plan…
Rustic Canyon sits on 1 traced path of capital across the graphs.
DFX traced 1 path of capital through this record
Every record on each path, what it committed or lent, and as of when.
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Evidence and history
16 dated events, 41 observations from 3 sources
- 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 Canyon
- 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 Canyon
- Apr 1, 2014RCV- Hyperquality, LP no longer reported on Form ADV by Rustic Canyon
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Mar 29, 2024 · 1 private fundsShowHide
Website description: Ark Private Equity Software
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- 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, adviser total
- $20.5Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried1 on recordShowHide
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%)Venture manager, reported GAV $20.5M across 1 vehicle
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC exemption claimed | Venture capital fund adviser | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Exempt reporting adviser | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2012-03-29 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1 | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2024-03-29 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Business phone | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Contact page url | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Firm website | |
| Description | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Firm website | |
| Description | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | Firm website | |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, CA | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Office address | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private funds reported | 1 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $20.5M | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Schedule a diff | sadiff-1 | Sep 28, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture funds reported | 1 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Website | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Website resolved domain | rusticcanyon.arkpes.com | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Firm website |
| Website resolved domain | rusticcanyon.arkpes.com | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | Firm website |
| Site title | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | Firm website | |
| Site title | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | Firm website |
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersMicro VC, confirmed · 3 filing advisers share this firmShowHide
Venture manager, reported GAV $20.5M across 1 vehicle
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.
- importance
- gav: $0 · funds: 0.33 · people: 0.12 · investments: 0.34 · co investors: 0.19
- active deployment
- investments 12m: 0 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: not scored
- emerging manager
- fund count: 4 · reported gav: $20.5M · first adv filing: 2012-03-29 · years since first filing: 14.5
Fits, record history and connections
scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge
Record history
- LP commitment disclosed2025-12-31source on record
- Adviser's first ADV filing2012-03-29source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.