Investors / United States / Crosscut
Crosscut
Venture capital · Santa Monica, CA, United States · North America
Crosscut is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles that invests in frontier technologies spanning hardware and software. It describes a playbook built on taking founders from Seed to Series A, and pledges one percent of capital to fund founder development programs.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfrontier techenergy transitiondecarbonizationspacedefenseadvanced manufacturing
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Or find every investor that fitsCrosscut lists 80 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (16%), Education (13%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (10%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Critical Frontier, Andreessen Horowitz and Western Technology Investment.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Crosscut, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Crosscut's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 80. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 100% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 93th | 80 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 53th | 1% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 3th | 16% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 16% | 18% |
| Education | 13% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Critical Frontier | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| Western Technology Investment | 5 |
| Decisive Point | 4 |
| Moonshots Capital | 4 |
| Pax | 4 |
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| Accel | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7391%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company79%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Critical Frontier
Compare Crosscut 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 Crosscut| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Aug 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Crosscut
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Crosscut's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
80 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aalo Atomics builds mass-manufactured nuclear power plants designed to power data centers and other applications | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Airloom engineers next-generation turbines for utility-scale, low-cost energy production | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides software for employee relations and HR case management | Human ResourcesLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Arbor develops and supplies power systems, including next-generation turbines, to deliver clean and reliable energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aurelius Systems builds autonomous directed energy systems to stop drone threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Blitz provides personalized stats, meta insights, and overlays for various online games, including League of Legends and Counter-Strike 2. | GamingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | |||
| Boosted Commerce creates and runs top brands that sell millions of units of health, wellness, and beauty products each year. | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| BuildOps provides commercial contractor management software | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cambium connects and modernizes the wood industry by working with forest managers, truckers, arborists, sawmills, and landowners to deliver wood products. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon Ridge builds and deploys critical technologies for the maritime industry, including onboard carbon capture and AI infrastructure | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Corridian manufactures ultra-large Autonomous Underwater Vehicles designed to address the acute need for scale beneath the waves. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dermstore sells skin care, sunscreen, hair, and beauty products | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
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| Fama provides social media screening services for employment purposes to identify workplace-relevant behavior and potential risks. | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| Field Day creates local marketing campaigns for brands, leveraging a national database of businesses and events and a labor force of brand ambassadors | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- crosscut.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 80
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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