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    Crosscut

    Los Angeles, California, United StatesFounded 2008
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    Climate & EnergyDefense & SpaceManufacturingRobotics & AutomationLogistics & Supply Chain

    Crosscut Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, founded in 2008. The firm partners with founders building frontier technologies across climate and energy, space, defense, advanced manufacturing, and robotics from Seed to Series A.

    Average disclosed round size is $27.6M (across 83 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    68

    Fund Size

    $100M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    BG

    Brian Garrett

    CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR

    RS

    Rick Smith

    CO-FOUNDER, INVESTMENT COMMITTEE & SENIOR ADVISOR

    JY

    Jon Ylvisaker

    PARTNER

    WS

    William Scriven

    PARTNER & HEAD OF CAPITAL FORMATION

    JO

    Jerry Orzech

    PRINCIPAL, INVESTMENT TEAM

    BB

    Brett Brewer

    CO-FOUNDER

    JD

    Jason DeHaven

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    89 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Aalo Atomics logoAalo AtomicsSeries B$100MAug 2025
    Solestial logoSolestialSeries A$17MMay 2025
    SSolestial SolarSeries A$17MJan 2025
    MetOx International, Inc. logoMetOx International, Inc.Series B$15MNov 2024
    Airloom Energy logoAirloom EnergySeed—Oct 2024
    Nostra AI logoNostra AISeries A$8.9MSep 2024
    Pacaso logoPacasoSeed$125MJan 2024
    Aalo Atomics logoAalo AtomicsSeed—Jan 2023
    9Count logo9CountSeries A$6MAug 2022
    9Count logo9CountBridge$6MAug 2022
    Keyway logoKeywaySeries A$25MJun 2022
    FAMA logoFAMASeries B$10MFeb 2022
    Unblocked logoUnblockedSeed$10MJan 2022
    Branch logoBranchSeries C$75MJan 2022
    9Count logo9CountSeries A$6MJan 2022
    Privacy Dynamics logoPrivacy DynamicsUnknown$4MDec 2021
    Fuzzy logoFuzzySeries B$44MNov 2021
    HiveWatch logoHiveWatchSeries A$20MOct 2021
    FitOn logoFitOnSeries B$18MOct 2021
    Just Insure logoJust InsureSeries A$8MSep 2021
    Compa logoCompaSeed$3.9MAug 2021
    Branch logoBranchSeries B$48MAug 2021
    AllVoices logoAllVoicesSeries A$9.6MJan 2021
    Symbl.ai logoSymbl.aiSeries A$17MJan 2021
    Symbl logoSymblSeries A$17MJan 2021
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    Top Co-Investors

    Greycroft12 shared
    Gaingels9 shared
    Pelion Venture Partners8 shared
    Techstars7 shared
    Alumni Ventures7 shared
    Bonfire Ventures7 shared
    TenOneTen Ventures6 shared
    Valor Equity Partners6 shared
    Accel6 shared
    Matchstick Ventures6 shared
    Harpoon Ventures5 shared
    Hitachi Ventures4 shared
    Fine Structure Ventures4 shared
    Freestyle Capital4 shared
    Founder Collective4 shared
    500 Global4 shared
    Addition4 shared
    Grishin Robotics3 shared
    GGV Capital3 shared
    Redpoint Ventures3 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026