From GP to LP: "Moving Up The Food Chain"
Michael Kim announced this morning that he is leaving VC firm Rustic Canyon Partners, in order to launch a fund-of-funds shop called Cendana Capital. "I look at this as moving up the food chain," says Kim, who helped launch Rustic Canyon ten years ago. "I've really enjoyed by time as a venture capitalist, but now I'll be able to invest in the best managers across a wider spectrum of investment strategies." Cendana will begin raising its inaugural fund-of-funds early next year, with a $250 million target. It will be opportunistic in terms of investments, with no pre-determined allocations. "There are plenty of funds-of-funds focused on VC or focused on distressed, but we plan to be flexible and allocate on where we think the best opportunities are," Kim explains. "If that means international early-stage, then that's what we'll commit to."
