Christopher Rust
Partner @ U.S. Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Christopher Rust is a Series A investor at U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Christopher Rust is the Co-Founder and Partner at Clear Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries Christopher Rust invests in
Stages Christopher Rust invests in
Countries Christopher Rust invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$7.5M
- Series A
- $7.2M–$25M
- Series B
- $10M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (16%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (14%)
- Information Technology 5 (10%)
- Electronics 4 (8%)
- Manufacturing 4 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (24%)
- Series B 11 (22%)
- Seed 7 (14%)
- Series C 7 (14%)
- Series D 4 (8%)
Country
- United States 19 (37%)
- Pakistan 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| A fabless semiconductor company, designing lowest power wireless solutions to dramatically reduce battery power. | $40M / Series D / Mar 03, 2025 | ||
| Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates therisk each document poses, and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $45M / Series B / Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| Arrcus offers hyper-scale networking software that provides software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world. The company's software improves human experiences by connecting people, machines, and data, and it provides simple-to-use software that spans the infrastructure, from routers to switches to servers, allowingbusinesses to unify manageability and control with the ease of a single network solution that works across the entire network infrastructure and simplifies operations.Arrcus was established in 2016 in San Jose, California by Devesh Garg. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 18, 2024 | ||
Kognitos
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Kognitos is in stealth mode. | $20M / Series A / Nov 29, 2023 | |
| Acante empowers modern data teams with the most comprehensive data security observability, and multi-platform data access privilege management solution for their data lake and warehouse environments. | Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Arrcus offers hyper-scale networking software that provides software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world. The company's software improves human experiences by connecting people, machines, and data, and it provides simple-to-use software that spans the infrastructure, from routers to switches to servers, allowingbusinesses to unify manageability and control with the ease of a single network solution that works across the entire network infrastructure and simplifies operations.Arrcus was established in 2016 in San Jose, California by Devesh Garg. | $50M / Series D / Feb 09, 2023 | ||
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Kognitos
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Kognitos is in stealth mode. | $6.8M / Seed / Feb 07, 2023 | |
| It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $25M / Series A / Aug 02, 2022 | ||
| Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States. | $7.2M / Series A / May 12, 2022 | ||
| Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates therisk each document poses, and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $14.5M / Series A / May 11, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About U.S. Venture Partners
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital partnership, helping entrepreneurs transform their ideas and efforts into world-changing companies. The firm focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care, where innovation is unbridled and has led to the creation of economic wealth and millions of jobs over the past thirty-plus years of the firm's existence. Areas of particular interest to our investment professionals include enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, and e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The USVP team consists of former entrepreneurs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts.
U.S. Venture Partners Contacts
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Phil Young
Senior Advisor
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Casey Tansey
General Partner
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Dafina Toncheva
General Partner
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Dale Holladay
CPA/CFO
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Jacques Benkoski
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Christopher Rust invest in?
Christopher Rust invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Christopher Rust invest in?
Christopher Rust typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$7.5M at Seed, $7.2M–$25M at Series A and $10M–$30M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Christopher Rust's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Christopher Rust took part in.
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When did Christopher Rust last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Christopher Rust closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 51 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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