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VC Profile: River Cities Capital Funding

Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio

Description: River Cities invests in world-class management teams − backing progressive, proven leaders of healthcare and information technology companies. A consistent, cohesive team has honed its strategy over four prior funds with compelling performance. River Cities seeks to be a business partner first and a capital provider second, investing significant human capital to leverage its domain expertise and a network of thought leaders assembled over the last 20 years.

“Building bridges between today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s success.”

Recent Investments:

  • Building Engines, Inc. $26M / Private Equity
  • NICO $15M / Venture
  • Canvas $4M / Venture
  • Netsertive, Inc $24M / Series C (Lead)

Website: www.rccf.com


Patrick Dunnigan joined River Cities in 2014 to focus on technology and healthcare investment opportunities. Prior to joining RCCF, Patrick worked at a venture-backed cloud services company and was a senior associate with Florida-based Ballast Point Ventures, where he worked on healthcare and tech-enabled business services growth-stage investments. Previously, Patrick was a senior investment banking analyst for Raymond James & Associates, where he was actively involved in advising companies regarding initial public offerings, raising capital in both the public and private markets and merger and acquisition opportunities.

Patrick graduated with a BS in finance with honors from the University of Florida and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University with the Health Sector Management (HSM) certificate. 

Patrick volunteers at the KIPP Durham College Prep Public School in Durham, North Carolina.

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