Chris Rust

Chris Rust is a founder and General Partner of Clear Ventures​, where he invests in​technology companies. Prior to founding Clear in 2016, ​he spent ​13 years as a Partner at Sequoia Capital and USVP. His seed and early stage investments include Abrizio (PMCS), Avanex (IPO AVNX), Dune (BRCM), GoPro (IPO GPRO), LVL7 (BRCM), Mellanox (IPO MLNX), and VxTel (INTC). He also spent 12 years in operating roles as a development engineer, network architect, and product manager. Chris was a co-founder and Lead Architect of broadband access pioneer Roadrunner (re-branded as ​Time Warner Cable Internet)​. Roadrunner grew to 14 million subscribers, over $4 Billion in annual ​revenue, and was ​the key driver of Charter Communication’s $56 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable. Chris earned a B.S.E.E. and ​an M.S.E.E from the University of Lowell, an M.S. Telecommunications Engineering and an M.E. Engineering Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.