Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Success in any new enterprise is about meeting an unfulfilled need. They are based in Santa Barbara, California because They see a geographic region (California’s Central Coast and Greater Los Angeles) that enjoys a tremendous amount of creative business talent, yet is underserved by professional venture capital investors. They are heavily resourced relative to their capital base so that they can invest at an earlier stage in a company’s development. This allows them to fund companies in the “gap” between true seed financing – from founders, their friends and family and angel investors – and typical “early-stage VC,” which has become much less early-stage as fund sizes have grown.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Campus Explorer | 8/07 | Series A | 2 |
