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Crosscut Ventures

Founders Brett Brewer Brian Garrett Rick Smith

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Total investments 163
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 102
Rounds per year 10.19
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 20
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Crosscut Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the Venice. The company was established in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Crosscut Ventures performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Brett Brewer, Brian Garrett, Rick Smith. The overall number of key employees were 12.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Branch, SHIFT, The Black Tux Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, eSports. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Crosscut Ventures, startups are often financed by Amplify.LA, Double M Partners, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wavemaker Partners, TenOneTen Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, Raine Ventures, New Enterprise Associates.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Monarx, Inc.

Cloud Security
CMS
Cyber Security
Network Security
SaaS
Software
Web Hosting
$6M23 Feb 2023 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Streamdal

Data Center
Software
$5M08 Feb 2023 -

Logoi Learning Systems

E-Learning
EdTech
Software
01 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Privacy Dynamics

Cloud Data Services
Consumer Software
Government
Insurance
Location Based Services
Privacy
Software
Transportation
$5M01 Dec 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Aug X Labs

Content Creators
Film Production
Media and Entertainment
Software
TV Production
Video
Video Advertising
Video Editing
$1M31 Oct 2022 Irvington, New York, United States

Rx Redefined

$8M16 Sep 2022 Oakland, California, United States

Keyway

$25M21 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Radius Agent

Marketplace
Mobile
Professional Networking
Real Estate
$13M27 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Branch

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Productivity Tools
Retail Technology
Software
$75M09 Mar 2022 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
News
Just Insure Raises $8M in Funding

– Just Insure is a Los Angeles, CA-based pay-per-mile insurance technology company that uses telematics to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias.
– Company raised $8m in funding.
– The round was led by CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments.
– The new investment will be used to scale operations and its product offering as it looks to expand into additional states.

Job offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M

– Compa, a software for recruiters, raised $3.9m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Base10 Partners and joined by Crosscut Ventures and Acadian Ventures, and strategic angel investors including 2.12 Angels, Oyster HR CEO Tony Jamous and Scout RFP co-founders Stan Garber and Alex Yakubovich.

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Total investments 163
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 10.19
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 20
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Monarx, Inc.

Cloud Security
CMS
Cyber Security
Network Security
SaaS
Software
Web Hosting
$6M23 Feb 2023 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Streamdal

Data Center
Software
$5M08 Feb 2023 -

Logoi Learning Systems

E-Learning
EdTech
Software
01 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Privacy Dynamics

Cloud Data Services
Consumer Software
Government
Insurance
Location Based Services
Privacy
Software
Transportation
$5M01 Dec 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Aug X Labs

Content Creators
Film Production
Media and Entertainment
Software
TV Production
Video
Video Advertising
Video Editing
$1M31 Oct 2022 Irvington, New York, United States

Rx Redefined

$8M16 Sep 2022 Oakland, California, United States

Keyway

$25M21 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Radius Agent

Marketplace
Mobile
Professional Networking
Real Estate
$13M27 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Branch

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Productivity Tools
Retail Technology
Software
$75M09 Mar 2022 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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