Crosscut Ventures

Umbra empowers customers with the ability to create solutions that inform, inspire, and address the planet’s most pressing needs through advanced remote sensing technology.

Proteus Space is an innovative company focused on rapidly delivering optimized satellite systems and digital models through its AI-enabled platform, MERCURY™. The company aims to redefine satellite development by leveraging advanced computational engineering to meet the demands of the evolving space economy.

Changing How The World Sees

Carbon Ridge offers a technology to decarbonize maritime vessels without fuel dependency.

Cambium is a technology company that transforms wood waste into resources, focusing on sustainable supply chains. It employs software engineers and has a director for business development. Cambium's technology connects wood waste sourcing to end markets.

Airloom engineers next-generation turbines for utility-scale, low-cost, reliable energy production, designed to maximize energy output per square kilometer.

Haxion provides AI-powered synthetic data solutions, enabling users to generate high-quality images and augment existing datasets for AI development.

Sutro provides a platform for creating production-grade backends with a focus on security, efficiency, and ease of use. It features a new language for backend definition, automatic schema generation, and built-in security compliance.

GumGum is a contextual intelligence company that specializes in high-impact advertising technology, focusing on contextual advertising without the use of personal data.

Pearl is a leader in dental AI, providing innovative solutions to enhance dental practices through advanced technology.

Pacaso enables buyers to co-own luxury vacation homes in top destinations around the world, offering ownership shares paired with professional management and full-service support.

Early-stage investor allocating around 80% to breakthrough climate technologies (carbon-negative concrete, atmospheric carbon removal), acting as a first believer through a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family.

Backs speculative science fiction technologies like artificial wombs, de-extinction, and brain-computer interfaces that most venture funds consider too speculative. Tim Draper has a track record of early bets on Bitcoin, Tesla, and SpaceX. The firm operates within a unique ecosystem including Draper University, entrepreneur hostels, and a TV pitch show.

Early-stage, first-money-in partner for technically ambitious founders transforming the physical world (energy, defense, infrastructure, space, advanced manufacturing), underwriting high technical and regulatory risk.

Alumni Ventures built a "network-powered" retail VC platform that aggregates thousands of accredited individuals into professionally managed funds, allowing people to write checks as low as ~$10k while accessing large, diversified venture portfolios—making it America's largest VC firm for individual investors. The firm runs a deliberately non-controlling, co-investor-only strategy where it does not lead rounds, set terms, or take board seats, instead slotting into rounds alongside elite firms like Sequoia and Bessemer while treating its 750k+ subscriber base and ~1,400+ venture-backed founders as a scaled operating asset through structured CEO Services.

Kiel Berry-led team (Wall Street + entertainment; early Lyft, Robinhood, Impossible Foods investor) backs frontier-tech startups tackling climate, resource depletion, and inequality with impact metrics tied to business and community programs. Mission One Capital operates as an action-driven SWAT team focused on three existential threats—climate change, resource depletion, and inequality—by backing startups where impact metrics are tightly tied to business performance and often target communities disproportionately affected by climate change.