Cendana Investments, the San Francisco-based investment firm, has filed two Form Ds, for Cendana Capital II, LP and Cendana Investments, LP, with respective targets of $30 million and $25 million. (The forms are here and here.)
Four-year-old Cendana has made a name for itself by backing so-called micro funds, including Freestyle Capital, IA Ventures, K9 Ventures, Lerer Ventures, and SoftTech VC. According to a source familiar with the firm’s thinking, Cendana Capital II, the $30 million vehicle, will continue to make investments in seed-stage-focused venture funds — adding to roughly $90 million that the firm is already managing toward that end.
Cendana’s first fund was a $28.5 million pool. It later raised a $60 million co-investment fund that Cendana manages with UTIMCO, called the Cendana Co-Investment Fund.
In a new twist, Cendana is moving away from being strictly a fund of funds. The second fund that Cendana is now raising, — Cendana Investments, which is targeting $25 million — will make direct investments in startups.
Cendana has yet to raise money for either of its newest funds, according to the filings.
Cendana was founded by Michael Kim, who was among one of the original partners of Rustic Canyon Ventures, where he spent nearly a decade. Before joining Rustic Canyon, Kim spent about two-and-a-half years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
