2 investors at Crosscut Ventures, based in Los Angeles, CA with $300M under management.
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Partner, Crosscut Ventures
Jon Ylvisaker is a Partner at Crosscut Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on backing innovative companies across climate, aerospace and defense, space, and enterprise sectors. In his role at Crosscut, Ylvisaker leverages his expertise to identify and support transformative technologies and business models that address critical challenges in sustainability, advanced manufacturing, and strategic industries. With a strategic investment focus spanning multiple high-impact verticals, he brings deep sector knowledge and operational experience to portfolio companies. Ylvisaker is actively engaged in sourcing and evaluating opportunities that combine technical innovation with significant market potential, working closely with founders to scale their ventures.
CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR, Crosscut Ventures
Rick Smith brings an unusual blue-collar background to venture capital, having been adopted by high school dropout parents in Illinois where his father ran a small plumbing business, and working jobs from pipe fitting at nuclear plants to de-tasseling corn before becoming a lawyer and then VC. He built a $750 million corporate venture platform from scratch at SunAmerica despite initially knowing little about tech, then co-founded Crosscut as a $5 million fund during the 2008 financial crisis and grew it into a larger platform that has produced multiple unicorns from that original tiny fund.
Crosscut Ventures's investment team consists of 2 professionals, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and managing $300M in assets. The team brings diverse backgrounds and specialized expertise to evaluate and support portfolio companies.
Across the team, Crosscut Ventures's investors cover expertise in Climate, Aerospace & Defense, Space, Enterprise. This breadth of sector knowledge enables the firm to evaluate opportunities across multiple verticals and provide specialized post-investment support to founders.
Crosscut Ventures has 2 investors and partners on their team, based in Los Angeles, CA. Each team member brings specialized expertise across different sectors and investment stages.
Crosscut Ventures's team consists of 2 investment professionals. View individual investor profiles above for detailed backgrounds, focus areas, and portfolio companies.
Crosscut Ventures manages approximately $300M in assets under management with a team of 2 investment professionals, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
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