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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

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. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. Read more: PEHub. OpenCandy.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? Subsequently, Rustic Canyon came in a Series A round. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum.