Founded in 2008 as one of the first seed firms deliberately built outside Silicon Valley, Crosscut has scaled to 170+ companies and $300M+ AUM while remaining LA-centered and formally pledging 1% of their investment into bespoke founder development including coaching, management training, and wellness programs. The firm is repositioning as a frontier-tech specialist focused on space, energy, advanced manufacturing, defense, and underwater exploration by following founders spinning out of SpaceX, Anduril, Northrop, and Boeing, while building a full-stack capital platform that includes growth and project-finance practice to bridge the "valley of death" for capital-intensive hardware and infrastructure companies.