CrossCut Ventures
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Crosscut Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, founded in 2008. It invests in frontier technologies including energy, space, defense, and advanced manufacturing, with a focus on supporting founders from seed to Series A.
CrossCut Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles, United States, founded in 2008. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in frontier technologies, energy transition, decarbonization and space economy. $300+ million under management, as it reports.
“Partnering with early-stage companies developing cutting-edge frontier technologies to address the world's most pressing problems.”
— CrossCut Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, United States
- Invests in
- US, global
- Sectors
- frontier technologies, energy transition, decarbonization, space economy, defense, advanced manufacturing, robotics, supply chains
- Founded
- 2008
- Assets under management
- $300+ million
Team, as CrossCut Ventures publishes it
- Brian Garrett Co-Founder & Managing Director
- William Scriven Partner & Head of Capital Formation
- Jerry Orzech Principal, Investment Team
- Rick Smith Co-Founder, Investment Committee & Senior Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on crosscut.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 65 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- B Capital 2 shared companies: buildops.com, comparably.com
- The Astro Group LLC 2 shared companies: valaratomics.com, aalo.com
- Join Beyond, LLC 2 shared companies: radiantnuclear.com, pacaso.com
- Acrew Capital 2 shared companies: steadymd.com, pacaso.com
- 1984 Ventures 1 shared company: buildops.com
- Founders Fund 1 shared company: buildops.com
- Ground Up Ventures 1 shared company: buildops.com
- N47 1 shared company: buildops.com
- PLUS Capital 1 shared company: buildops.com
- SE Ventures 1 shared company: buildops.com
and 55 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page CrossCut Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://crosscut.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, stage_min, stage_max
- https://crosscut.vc/our-focus/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max
- https://crosscut.vc/our-story/founded, aum
- https://crosscut.vc/team/people
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Record 1051 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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