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Cercano Management

Family office · Founded 1997 · Active in 2026

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27 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #330 · Global · 27 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 5% 5y
21
Decacorns ↓ 20% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 50% 5y
21

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.

Portfolio analysis

The 27 Cercano Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA20
  2. Brazil2
  3. China1
  4. India1
  5. Germany1
  6. UK1
  7. Singapore1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software6
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  3. Fintech4
  4. Transportation2
  5. Other2
  6. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  7. Marketing2
  8. Food1
  9. AI1
  10. Energy1
  11. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+20
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Cercano's 27 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
27 of 27 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

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.

LocationCount
United States24
India7
Estonia4
Taiwan2
China1
Canada1
Mexico1
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UniversityCount
UCLA3
Cornell University3
University of Tartu2
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi2
Whitworth University2
Harvard Business School2
Stanford University2
Tallinn University of Technology1
Boğaziçi University1
Cheshire academy1
+18 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft4
Uber2
Amazon2
Yandex1
SAP1
Network for Good1
Yahoo!1
Isilon Systems1
Meta1
Akamai1
+11 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Cercano.

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04 · Compare with peers

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.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment 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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Latest news about Cercano Management

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