Chris Rust

Chris Rust is a venture capital investor in Silicon Valley. He works with technology entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company created to help their startups become outstanding companies.

Chris’s experiences include: 16 years of technology venture investing as Founder and Managing Partner of Clear Ventures, Partner at Sequoia Capital and USVP; 12 years of company building as co-founder (badge #2) and lead architect of broadband access pioneer Roadrunner/TWC Internet (Charter Communications); startup PLM at Carrier Access and Comcore; and technical staff at US West and MITRE. He is currently working on stealth projects while supporting his active portfolio.

Since 1998 Chris has made early-stage investments in 40 startups, starting 35x at seed/series A and 5x at series B. His first 24 exits have produced $32B+ of market cap from market-leading companies such as GoPro, Dune, Mellanox, Syndesis, LVL7, VxTel, Avanex, Telera, SwitchOn, and Abrizio. His active VC portfolio provides innovative IT products and technology-enabled services related to cloud computing, data center and enterprise IT infrastructure, data science, information security, machine intelligence, meta-search, and predictive commerce. It includes Arrcus, Atmosic, GoEuro, Reflektion, Robin, Vera, Wootcloud, and Zerto. Chris strives to help create opportunities in a supportive and respectful manner.