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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.
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.
Where Cercano's founders come from — and where they study.
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.
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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 sectorsSentiment on X
What X 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
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