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Cerberus Ventures
Corporate VC · New York, NY, United States · North America
Cerberus Ventures is the venture arm of Cerberus Capital Management that backs founders building technology companies. It offers portfolio companies technical, commercial, and operational expertise alongside capital and access to a global network.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsCerberus Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds, 8 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (28%), Healthcare & Biotech (24%) and AI & Machine Learning (24%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside E14 Fund, IQT and Lightscape Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cerberus Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCerberus Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 9% |
| Seed | 36% |
| Series A | 46% |
| Series B | 9% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 1 |
| '25 | 4 | 3 |
| '26 | 6 | 4 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 68th | 45% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 50% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 44th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 28% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 24% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 3% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| E14 Fund | 2 |
| IQT | 2 |
| Lightscape Partners | 2 |
| Safar Partners | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| Acclimate Ventures | 1 |
| Alloy Fund | 1 |
| Altitude Life Science Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cerberus Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cerberus Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 12 May 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 23 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Series A Led |
Round details for Cerberus Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cerberus Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansa Biotechnologies synthesizes custom DNA sequences for its customers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| AquaPoro manufactures pure drinking water directly from the air for residential and industrial applications | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| DG Matrix manufactures solid-state transformers and provides solutions for AI data centers, utility, and fleet electrification. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Ferveret develops and offers adaptive phase cooling systems for data centers | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Layup Parts manufactures high-quality composite parts for customers from prototyping through production | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Lightsynq is developing universal optical quantum interconnects that bridge the gap to large-scale quantum computers. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2024Series A | Page + round | |
| Lucidean develops optical solutions for data center connectivity | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Dec 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Maybell builds dilution refrigerators that are intuitive, reliable, and obsessively engineered to meet the growing demands of the quantum industry. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Nudge Security provides a SaaS and AI security platform to secure a company's workforce edge and manage SaaS risks. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Photon Queue develops quantum memories for quantum computing systems | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Prism ML is building ultra dense intelligence to solve the problems of large models not fitting on smartphones and datacenters not being able to sustain them. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Red Queen Bio is building an AI-powered biodefense layer to design and deliver countermeasures against emerging biological threats. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Riven develops a platform for designing, scaling up, and operating mineral processing facilities using autonomous laboratories, computational modeling, and AI. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Roebling provides AI engineering services for industrial infrastructure | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building a power grid in space to transmit concentrated solar energy to satellites | Space & DefenseEducation | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Syntis Bio is developing oral therapies that harness the small intestine's biology to address various healthcare challenges | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides a biopsy system for medical use | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Vitroscope develops a platform for ex vivo tissue culture and vascularised organoid perfusion to advance life science research | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- cerberus-ventures.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Nov 2024
- Companies checked
- 18
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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