# Cercano Management

> Cercano Management is a VC fund in Bellevue backing Software and Health Care. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bellevue, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last fund: Sep 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cercano-management/
- Website: https://www.cercanolp.com/

Cercano Management is an investment firm.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Cercano Management. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Cercano Management. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/cercano-management?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$14M |
| Series A | $6M–$26M |
| Series B | $10M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 29% |
| Health Care | 12 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 6 | 10% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 10% |

94 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 33% |
| Series A | 17 | 27% |
| Series B | 10 | 16% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 8% |
| Series C | 3 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 37 | 59% |
| Singapore | 5 | 8% |
| Vietnam | 2 | 3% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 2% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stuart Nagae | Venture Capital | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-nagae |
| Cliff Su | Portfolio Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cliff-su |
| Lauren Glatter | Investor | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-glatter |
| Steve Hall | Venture Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-hall |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Accipiter Biosciences | Accipiter Biosciences is a biotechnology company. | $12.7M | Seed | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Bronto | Bronto is the logging layer for the AI era, built for petabyte scale with fast search across all your logs and retention for as long as you need. It provides full visibility into log usage, tracking who is searching what, while automatic volume controls and log hygiene ensure clean, structured, and optimized data. Reinventing logging from end toend, Bronto eliminates waste, maximizes efficiency, and makes logs work smarter for you. | $14M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Provision | Provision is automating construction with AI. | $7M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Doorstep AI | Doorstep AI is an artificial intelligence company that provides centimeter precise delivery drop-off location accuracy. | $8M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Kozystay | 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 todeliver seamless experience and value-for-money to our guests. |  | Series A | Aug 22, 2025 |  |
| Yoodli | Yoodli is an AI-enabled platform that provides feedback on its user's communication skills. It helps users practice and improve their communication skills without the pressure of an audience. | $13.7M | Series A | May 21, 2025 |  |
| FDcare | FDcare provides comprehensive health care services to customers. | $2.5M | Series A | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| Unwrap.ai | Unwrap.ai develops an AI-powered natural language processor platform to help companies analyze user feedback. Its platform focuses on consolidating existing feedback sources into one place and helps better understand customers with less effort by using NLP to analyze product reviews and guide them to ship better products. | $12M | Series A | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Aizen Therapeutic | Aizen is an AI-driven biotechnology company that is pioneering the development of Mirror Peptides, a novel class of biologic medicines. | $13M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Picnic | Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the firstautomated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 29, 2024 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [ACA Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aca-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ascend](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascend-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cercano Management invest in?

Cercano Management invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Cercano Management's check size?

Cercano Management typically joins rounds of $1M–$14M at Seed, $6M–$26M at Series A and $10M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cercano Management participates in.

### How do I contact Cercano Management?

Public channels for Cercano Management include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Cercano Management?

The team at Cercano Management includes Stuart Nagae (Venture Capital), Cliff Su (Portfolio Manager) and Lauren Glatter (Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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