Cercano Management is a private investment firm based in Bellevue, Washington, established in 2022. The firm focuses on investments across various stages of corporate development and targets multiple sectors, including healthcare, software, media, data intelligence, mobile networks, semiconductors, alternative energy, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, education, consumer services, financial services, and telecommunications. The executive management team oversees the firm's operations and investment strategies, aiming to drive growth and value in its portfolio companies.
HELI Corp. provides comprehensive health care services.
Unwrap.ai
Series A in 2025
Unwrap.ai offers an AI-powered natural language processing platform that enables companies to analyze user feedback effectively. The platform consolidates various feedback sources, allowing businesses to better understand their customers with minimal effort. By utilizing natural language processing to analyze product reviews, Unwrap.ai assists product leaders in transforming disorganized customer feedback into actionable insights, ultimately guiding them in developing improved products. This approach streamlines the feedback analysis process, making it easier for organizations to respond to customer needs and enhance their offerings.
Aizen Therapeutic
Seed Round in 2024
Aizen is an AI-driven biotechnology company that is pioneering the development of Mirror Peptides, a novel class of biologic medicines.
Picnic
Venture Round in 2024
Picnic is a Seattle-based company established in 2016 that specializes in food production technology and robotics solutions. Formerly known as Vivid Robotics Inc., Picnic has developed an application that streamlines automated interactions and ordering for food companies. The company has assembled a team of industry veterans from both the food and technology sectors to create innovative solutions tailored for the food service and hospitality industries. One of its flagship products, the Picnic Pizza Production System, is the first automated pizza-making system designed for both new kitchen installations and retrofits, capable of producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour using chef-selected ingredients and recipes.
WatchTowr
Series A in 2024
watchTowr is a cybersecurity company that focuses on External Attack Surface Management through its Continuous Automated Red Teaming platform. Developed by experts in offensive security, the platform is designed for continuous testing of an organization's attack surface. It helps critical infrastructure and Fortune 500 companies globally to validate and enhance their security measures against potential cyber threats. By simulating real-world attacks, watchTowr enables organizations to assess their cybersecurity posture from the perspective of actual adversaries, thereby identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening defenses effectively.
AminoChain
Seed Round in 2024
AminoChain operates a blockchain-based platform that enhances the management of biosamples by connecting data from healthcare companies. The platform allows users to oversee bio-sample inventories while ensuring ownership of their assets. It facilitates collaboration among stakeholders through an integrated solution that encompasses sample procurement, agreements, and payments. Additionally, AminoChain focuses on tokenizing and incentivizing stem cell donations, providing donors with compensation for their contributions and offering biobanks a secure method for inventory management.
Ferrum Health
Series A in 2024
Ferrum Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops an artificial intelligence platform aimed at preventing medical errors and improving patient outcomes. The platform analyzes patient data across health systems to identify gaps in care and deploys multiple computer vision algorithms to evaluate radiologic images for commonly overlooked pathologies, such as lung nodules and fractures. Additionally, a proprietary natural language processing algorithm correlates these findings with physician notes, enabling hospital quality officers to address potentially missed diagnoses. Founded in 2017, Ferrum Health focuses on ensuring quality assurance in critical healthcare decisions, thereby enhancing the overall patient care experience through the integration of AI-driven tools.
GC Therapeutics
Series A in 2024
GC Therapeutics specializes in synthetic biology to efficiently program patient-derived stem cells into various cell types. The company has developed a proprietary platform that integrates synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, enabling streamlined manufacturing and improved quality of cell therapies. Their approach allows for the rapid differentiation of pluripotent stem cells, creating unique SuperCells™ customized for specific medical conditions. The foundational technology was developed in Professor George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School, and the team at GC Therapeutics comprises dedicated biologists and tissue engineers focused on translating this innovative method into practical therapies for patients.
Fit Hub Indonesia
Series A in 2024
Fit Hub Indonesia is a health & wellness startup in Indonesia.
GoodShip
Series A in 2024
GoodShip is a developer of a cloud-based platform designed to streamline freight orchestration and procurement processes for shippers. The platform automates labor-intensive tasks related to carrier management and transportation procurement, enabling users to manage these functions digitally. It offers real-time analytics on the performance of various lanes and carriers, providing shippers with AI-powered insights, automated reports, and scorecards. This comprehensive approach aids in enhancing supply chain agility, allowing businesses to make informed decisions and improve operational efficiency.
Prep
Series A in 2024
Prep is a platform that provides interactive learning for standardized assessments.
Qapita
Series B in 2024
Qapita is a software-as-a-service platform that specializes in equity and transaction management services. The company offers an equity management platform that facilitates the management of capitalization tables, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and the digital issuance of ESOPs. This platform is designed to assist equity stakeholders in efficiently managing their holdings throughout South and Southeast Asia. By digitizing these processes, Qapita aims to streamline the complexities associated with equity management, enabling users to work more effectively and with greater accuracy.
NLX
Series A in 2024
NLX is a company that offers an end-to-end enterprise AI platform designed to enhance customer experiences for large brands. Its no-code, multimodal conversation platform allows organizations to create, monitor, and analyze automated conversations, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. This technology enables personalized customer interactions through automated chat, voice, and multimodal conversations, facilitating effective self-service experiences. NLX's platform is highly scalable, integrated, and accessible anytime and anywhere, empowering brands to manage conversational deployments across their entire enterprise effectively.
Rhythms
Seed Round in 2023
Rhythms offers generative AI, the prevalence of hybrid workplaces, the imperative to do more with less are reshaping organizations function.
Kozystay
Seed Round in 2023
Kozystay is a hospitality technology start-up with a mission to redefine the hospitality industry, starting from Indonesia. We provide high quality spaces for the next generation guests, offering the best of homes and hotels, suitable for short term, extended, and long term stay. We capitalize technology to streamline operational processes to deliver seamless experience and value-for-money to our guests.
Curve
Series C in 2023
Curve is a digital wallet that consolidates multiple payment cards and accounts into a single, user-friendly platform, enhancing the way individuals manage their finances. Established in London in 2015, Curve allows users to store their cards digitally while providing features that actively save money during transactions. Its technology eliminates hidden foreign transaction fees, enables card switching even after a purchase, and allows users to earn rewards in addition to their existing card benefits. With authorization from financial regulators in the UK, EEA, and US, Curve has gained over 6 million customers worldwide and processes significant annual payment volumes. By merging traditional and digital banking functionalities, Curve positions itself as a leader in financial innovation, offering unique advantages that distinguish it from conventional digital wallets.
AdaptX
Series B in 2023
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and AI company that specializes in enhancing clinical and workflow outcomes for hospitals and surgery centers. Founded in Seattle in 2016 as a spin-off from Seattle Children's Hospital, AdaptX provides a platform that enables medical leaders and clinicians to access and analyze clinical data effectively. The platform integrates algorithms with existing electronic data systems, allowing healthcare providers to monitor performance, compare treatment approaches, and define patient cohorts. Through automated analytics, AdaptX helps healthcare service providers improve the quality and safety of care while also reducing costs.
Plerion
Seed Round in 2023
Plerion is a cybersecurity company that offers a comprehensive cloud security platform designed to enhance security oversight for cloud workloads and operating environments. The platform employs advanced entity behavior analytics and a federated AI detection engine to identify and prioritize critical security risks, allowing organizations to focus their resources on the most significant threats. By providing continuous monitoring of security and compliance, Plerion enables clients to confidently develop and deploy applications across their cloud environments, ensuring robust protection and proactive threat prevention.
SuperFocus
Seed Round in 2023
SuperFocus develops LLM AIs utilizing private data for hallucination prevention in memory modules. The company develops AIs that use the Large Language Model (LLM) for language capability without training data. They connected the LLM to a memory module based on user-defined ground truth information, achieving 100% accuracy in answering college textbook questions.
BandLab
Series B in 2023
BandLab is a cloud-based social platform designed to facilitate music creation and collaboration among musicians and fans. Available on iOS, Android, and the web, it allows users to create, share, and connect through music seamlessly. The platform promotes a global community where users can collaborate on projects and share their creative processes. BandLab also incorporates social features such as video sharing and messaging, enhancing interaction between creators and their audiences. As part of BandLab Technologies, it operates within a broader ecosystem that includes musical instruments, accessories, and various applications, leveraging expertise in software and hardware development to influence the future of music.
Groopit
Seed Round in 2023
Groopit is a collaboration platform that streamlines the process of crowdsourcing and utilizing employee data to address complex business challenges. Its enterprise SaaS solution integrates seamlessly with various tools, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Tableau, PowerBI, and SharePoint. The platform enables employees to easily report data using their mobile devices, facilitating multi-group implementation and integrating with existing enterprise systems through APIs. This approach allows organizational leaders to unify their workforce, enhancing direction, data accessibility, and visibility in real-time, ultimately accelerating results across the organization.
Wellthy
Venture Round in 2023
Wellthy, Inc. is a concierge service based in New York that assists individuals and families in managing care for chronically ill, aging, or disabled loved ones. Established in 2014, the company connects families with dedicated Care Coordinators who help navigate complex care situations, including aging-related issues such as dementia, diabetes, and cancer, as well as childcare and special needs. Wellthy's platform enables families to efficiently organize appointments, manage tasks, store essential documents, and maintain communication, alleviating the logistical burdens associated with caregiving. The service aims to provide relief to families by coordinating care and addressing related medical, legal, financial, and housing needs.
GoodShip
Seed Round in 2023
GoodShip is a developer of a cloud-based platform designed to streamline freight orchestration and procurement processes for shippers. The platform automates labor-intensive tasks related to carrier management and transportation procurement, enabling users to manage these functions digitally. It offers real-time analytics on the performance of various lanes and carriers, providing shippers with AI-powered insights, automated reports, and scorecards. This comprehensive approach aids in enhancing supply chain agility, allowing businesses to make informed decisions and improve operational efficiency.
Sprout Solutions
Series B in 2023
Sprout Solutions is a provider of payroll and HR software tailored for emerging markets, with a strong foothold in the Philippines and expanding operations in Singapore and Indonesia. The company's platform automates administrative tasks related to HR and payroll, offering a comprehensive online payroll service and a secure cloud-based human resource information system. By replacing traditional methods such as spreadsheets and printed forms with biometrics and single-click processing, Sprout enhances efficiency in timekeeping and attendance. Additionally, its unified system consolidates recruitment operations, enabling businesses to streamline their HR functions and address challenges in payroll and human resource management.
Blokable
Funding Round in 2023
Blokable, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in manufacturing pre-fabricated steel frame modular housing units for various development projects in the United States, including residential, retail, and mixed-use applications. Established in 2016, Blokable offers a vertically integrated solution that streamlines the housing creation process by combining design, planning, financing, permitting, and manufacturing. Their innovative building system allows for the design and delivery of fully functional modular structures that can be configured and stacked in multiple ways, catering to diverse building needs. This approach significantly reduces the time and costs associated with developing multi-family housing, while also promoting community equity and accessibility. Blokable's focus on efficiency and affordability aims to address the challenges of housing development and contribute to the creation of connected communities.
Prep
Seed Round in 2023
Prep is a platform that provides interactive learning for standardized assessments.
Candidly
Series B in 2023
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. It offers individuals and families through every step of the planning, borrowing, and repayment experience.
SwipeRx
Series B in 2023
SwipeRx is a digital platform designed to enhance the operations of pharmacies by connecting pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacies, and patients. It offers a range of services, including specialized healthcare logistics, negotiated pricing, and financing solutions, creating a robust network for pharmacy purchasing. The platform generates insights that facilitate collaboration with pharmacies, improve pharmacist education, and strengthen market access. Additionally, it optimizes commercial strategies and enhances daily operational efficiencies. By providing real-time access to patient and sell-out data, SwipeRx enables its clients to improve patient affordability, access, and adherence to medications.
Spine BioPharma
Convertible Note in 2023
Spine BioPharma is focused on developing non-surgical therapies aimed at alleviating back pain and restoring functionality without relying on opioids. The company’s lead therapeutic candidate targets degenerative disc disease, offering potential benefits such as pain relief, functional restoration, and the slowing or prevention of disease progression. With a mission to enhance the quality of life for individuals suffering from degenerative spine conditions, Spine BioPharma seeks to deliver clinically proven, safe, and effective treatments that address pain and inflammation. Through its innovative pipeline, the company aims to improve the everyday lives of millions affected by these debilitating conditions.
Rebellyous Foods
Series B in 2023
Rebellyous Foods is a Seattle-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in producing plant-based meat alternatives, including chicken nuggets, patties, and strips. The company aims to make meat alternatives more accessible and affordable by implementing innovative food manufacturing technologies and processes designed for large-scale production. By utilizing high-throughput automation and energy-efficient manufacturing tools, Rebellyous Foods seeks to achieve price parity with traditional animal-based meats. Its products are primarily targeted at the food service market, including schools, hospitals, corporate cafeterias, and restaurants, providing customers with protein-rich options that can replace animal-based meat on a broad scale.
Ferrum Health
Seed Round in 2023
Ferrum Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops an artificial intelligence platform aimed at preventing medical errors and improving patient outcomes. The platform analyzes patient data across health systems to identify gaps in care and deploys multiple computer vision algorithms to evaluate radiologic images for commonly overlooked pathologies, such as lung nodules and fractures. Additionally, a proprietary natural language processing algorithm correlates these findings with physician notes, enabling hospital quality officers to address potentially missed diagnoses. Founded in 2017, Ferrum Health focuses on ensuring quality assurance in critical healthcare decisions, thereby enhancing the overall patient care experience through the integration of AI-driven tools.
Mila Cares
Series A in 2022
Our goal is simple: to make the absolute best air purifier on the market. That means top-notch performance, design and technology, all at a price every family can afford. Mila was built by three dads who wanted clean air for their kids but saw major flaws in the air purifiers that dominated the market. So they did what nobody else thought to do — fix the problems. Mila is the largest air purifier launch in Kickstarter history, raising over $1.7M. Electrolux invested in the company in 2019.
Quqo
Seed Round in 2022
Quqo is a digital distribution platform based in Bogotá, Colombia, focused on the fast-moving consumer goods sector. Established in 2019, it connects suppliers, manufacturers, and local retailers through an online marketplace that streamlines the procurement process. The platform offers various features, including sales force automation, distribution management, and business intelligence tools, along with payment options such as e-wallet and buy-now-pay-later financing. By optimizing the supply chain for both small and large retailers, Quqo aims to enhance profitability for all participants at every stage of the business.
Prophia
Series A in 2022
Prophia is a data management and insights platform specifically designed for the commercial real estate industry. The company focuses on automating lease abstraction and managing complex lease documents through advanced AI technology. By extracting key clauses and financial terms, Prophia's platform helps users optimize rental agreements, uncover hidden opportunities, and enhance portfolio management. This innovative approach enables commercial real estate owners and forward-thinking innovators to leverage data effectively, ultimately driving better asset performance and informed decision-making. Prophia aims to transform how the industry aggregates and utilizes unstructured building data, fostering improved efficiency and profitability.
GoodShip
Pre Seed Round in 2022
GoodShip is a developer of a cloud-based platform designed to streamline freight orchestration and procurement processes for shippers. The platform automates labor-intensive tasks related to carrier management and transportation procurement, enabling users to manage these functions digitally. It offers real-time analytics on the performance of various lanes and carriers, providing shippers with AI-powered insights, automated reports, and scorecards. This comprehensive approach aids in enhancing supply chain agility, allowing businesses to make informed decisions and improve operational efficiency.
Genetesis
Series C in 2022
Genetesis LLC is a medical technology company based in Mason, Ohio, that specializes in biomagnetic imaging solutions to improve patient diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac conditions. Founded in 2013, the company has developed the Genetesis CardioFlux, a mapping system designed to enhance the detection and treatment of cardiac rhythm disorders by visualizing the heart's electrical currents in three dimensions. Additionally, Genetesis offers the Faraday Analytical Cloud, a HIPAA-compliant platform that manages the data workflow for the CardioFlux magnetocardiograph. The system is non-invasive and avoids exposing patients to radiation or requiring exercise, enabling clinicians to accurately measure the magnetic signals generated by the heart during its electrical activity.
Flavrs
Seed Round in 2022
Flavrs is a San Francisco-based shoppable video platform that merges premium food content with commerce, catering to food enthusiasts. Founded in 2020, the platform offers a variety of recipes, ranging from seafood to Thai cuisine, and features video tutorials created in collaboration with renowned chefs and food creators. Users can engage with these tutorials to learn how to reproduce the showcased meals at home. Flavrs enhances the cooking experience by providing a seamless shopping component, allowing users to purchase the necessary ingredients directly through a custom integration with Instacart. This innovative approach enables foodies to discover, replicate, and enjoy a diverse array of culinary creations.
Monod Bio
Seed Round in 2022
Monod Bio is a life sciences company based in Seattle, Washington, focused on developing innovative biosensors for detecting proteins, toxins, antibodies, and other analytes. Founded in 2021, the company has created a biosensor platform that integrates binding, transduction, and amplification processes in a single step, allowing for the rapid and sensitive detection of a diverse array of target molecules. By leveraging recent advancements in computational protein engineering, Monod Bio has designed highly modular bio-sensing nanoswitches that facilitate cost-effective analytical assays. This technology aims to enhance the capabilities of the healthcare industry in biotechnology and medicine.
Yoodli
Seed Round in 2022
Yoodli is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance communication skills through real-time feedback. By allowing users to practice their public speaking in a supportive environment, Yoodli records video presentations and analyzes them to identify areas for improvement. The platform offers insights on clarity of speech, word choice, eye contact, and gestures, enabling individuals and organizations to refine their communication abilities effectively. This approach eliminates the stress of performing in front of an audience, fostering a more comfortable learning experience.
Ozette
Series A in 2022
Ozette Technologies focuses on digitizing biological data through machine learning to provide comprehensive insights into the human immune system. By leveraging a single-cell immune monitoring platform, the company enhances the discovery and annotation of immune cells, facilitating a deeper understanding of immune responses in both health and disease. Its AI-driven computational analysis technology supports scientists and healthcare providers in developing novel therapies and diagnostics, ultimately aiming to improve patient outcomes. Through its innovative approach, Ozette accelerates the advancement of therapeutic solutions by streamlining the analysis of immune data.
CivicEye
Series A in 2022
CivicEye is a software company based in Charlotte, NC, that specializes in developing solutions for prosecutors and law enforcement agencies. Its cloud-based platform enhances the management of cases, records, and digital evidence throughout the criminal justice system. By integrating various workstreams, CivicEye simplifies functions such as risk management, content management, and digital evidence management. The comprehensive system also incorporates features for computer-aided dispatch, calls for service, jail management, civil processing, arrests, citations, mapping, fleet management, and reporting. Serving over 150 agencies nationwide, CivicEye aims to streamline operations and improve collaboration among stakeholders within the criminal justice ecosystem.
Revvo Technologies
Seed Round in 2022
Revvo is an IT company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in a sensor-enabled AI software platform that monitors vehicle tires. Founded in 2018, Revvo aims to enhance the safety and efficiency of vehicles by providing real-time data on tire health. The company develops smart sensors that are embedded within tires, capturing critical performance data and sending it to the cloud via a mobile application. This technology allows drivers and fleet managers to gain insights into tire conditions, enabling proactive maintenance and improving overall vehicle uptime. Additionally, Revvo's data-centric approach supports tire manufacturers, retailers, and distributors by offering valuable insights for product development and enhancements.
Spine BioPharma
Series B in 2022
Spine BioPharma is focused on developing non-surgical therapies aimed at alleviating back pain and restoring functionality without relying on opioids. The company’s lead therapeutic candidate targets degenerative disc disease, offering potential benefits such as pain relief, functional restoration, and the slowing or prevention of disease progression. With a mission to enhance the quality of life for individuals suffering from degenerative spine conditions, Spine BioPharma seeks to deliver clinically proven, safe, and effective treatments that address pain and inflammation. Through its innovative pipeline, the company aims to improve the everyday lives of millions affected by these debilitating conditions.
Kevala
Series A in 2022
Kevala, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that operates a platform designed to help healthcare organizations efficiently manage their workforce according to shift requirements. Established in 2020, Kevala connects healthcare operators with preferred staffing agencies and internal float staff, facilitating automated scheduling, timesheet management, and credential oversight. The platform aims to streamline the hiring process for healthcare professionals and ensure that organizations can promptly fill their staffing needs.
Videon Labs
Venture Round in 2022
Videons video compute platform enables scalable, operational, affordable on-premise, in the studio, in-stadium live video solutions.
Pendulum Intelligence
Seed Round in 2022
Pendulum Intelligence is an AI and machine learning-driven platform that assists companies and government organizations in identifying and understanding harmful narratives on social media and other online content. The platform offers a range of services, including a narrative engine, community engine, intelligence explorer, and monitoring system. These tools enable clients to effectively manage their online presence while mitigating cyber threats and risks associated with social media. By leveraging advanced analytics, Pendulum provides insights that help organizations navigate the complexities of digital communication and protect their reputations.
Yoodli
Yoodli is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance communication skills through real-time feedback. By allowing users to practice their public speaking in a supportive environment, Yoodli records video presentations and analyzes them to identify areas for improvement. The platform offers insights on clarity of speech, word choice, eye contact, and gestures, enabling individuals and organizations to refine their communication abilities effectively. This approach eliminates the stress of performing in front of an audience, fostering a more comfortable learning experience.
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