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Rustic Canyon Boosts Social Gaming Firm PlayFirst

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Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has upped its investment in social games firm PlayFirst , which is based in San Francisco. According to PlayFirst, Rustic Canyon, Mayfield Fund, Trinity Partners, and DCM--all current investors in the game developer--have invested $5.2M

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Rustic Canyon's Kim To Leave Firm

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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.

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Venture Funding in Green Technologies

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -- Venture Funding in Green Technologies. Moderated by John Babcock, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners. Moderated by John Babcock, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners. LAVA special event focused on Green Tech companies and Green Tech investing. Parry, Managing Director, NGEN.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. 10mm in Series C. Read more: PEHub.