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Cercano Management
Family office · Founded 1997 · Active in 2026
Cercano Management is a family office based in USA, founded in 1997. The page below shows 27 Power Law outcomes from Cercano Management's portfolio — 21 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Brazil · China. Cercano ranks #330 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Cercano’s biggest exits.
Cercano portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Cercano’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Cercano’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Cercano is a named shareholder, worth about $220M in estimated equity value.
Estimated value = Cercano’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Cercano also appears inside investor groups in Blink Health, Rec Room, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 27 Cercano Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA20
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Brazil2
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China1
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India1
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Germany1
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UK1
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Singapore1
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Other B2B Software6
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Fintech4
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Transportation2
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Other2
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Biotech & Life Sciences2
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Marketing2
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Food1
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AI1
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Energy1
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Robotics1
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Series B+20
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Series A2
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Seed2
Cercano's 27 Power Law outcomes.
How does Cercano stack up?
Cercano in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Cercano's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
46 founders across the 27 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. UCLA and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Cercano.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Cercano Management
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cercano on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Cercano Management
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Cercano — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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