Cercano Management

Cercano Management is a private investment firm based in Bellevue, Washington, established in 2022. The firm focuses on investments across various stages of corporate development and targets multiple sectors, including healthcare, software, media, data intelligence, mobile networks, semiconductors, alternative energy, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, education, consumer services, financial services, and telecommunications. The executive management team oversees the firm's operations and investment strategies, aiming to drive growth and value in its portfolio companies.

Elizabeth Bernstein

Partner and Portfolio Manager

Yongbai Choi

Venture Partner

Daley Ervin

Executive, Venture Capital

Lauren Glatter

Executive, Venture Capital

Steve Hall

Venture Partner

Stuart Nagae

Venture Capital

Rick Roberts

Investor, Partner and Portfolio Manager

Tommy Teo

Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia

Minjie (MJ) Yu

Managing Director

Past deals in Language Processing

Unwrap.ai

Series A in 2025
Unwrap.ai is a company that specializes in developing an AI-powered natural language processor platform. This platform is designed to help businesses analyze user feedback more efficiently. By consolidating various feedback sources into a single location, Unwrap.ai enables companies to gain deeper insights into their customers' needs with minimal effort. The platform uses natural language processing (NLP) to analyze product reviews and other forms of customer feedback, providing actionable guidance that helps businesses improve their products and services.

NLX

Series A in 2024
NLX is a company that offers an end-to-end enterprise AI platform designed to enhance customer experiences for large brands. Its no-code, multimodal conversation platform allows organizations to create, monitor, and analyze automated conversations, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. This technology enables personalized customer interactions through automated chat, voice, and multimodal conversations, facilitating effective self-service experiences. NLX's platform is highly scalable, integrated, and accessible anytime and anywhere, empowering brands to manage conversational deployments across their entire enterprise effectively.

SuperFocus

Seed Round in 2023
SuperFocus develops LLM AIs utilizing private data for hallucination prevention in memory modules. The company develops AIs that use the Large Language Model (LLM) for language capability without training data. They connected the LLM to a memory module based on user-defined ground truth information, achieving 100% accuracy in answering college textbook questions.

Yoodli

Seed Round in 2022
Yoodli is an AI-enabled platform designed to enhance users' communication skills through real-time feedback. The platform allows individuals to practice public speaking by recording their video presentations and receiving constructive critiques on various aspects of their delivery, including word choice, eye contact, and gestures. By creating a pressure-free environment, Yoodli enables users to refine their communication abilities effectively, making it a valuable tool for personal and professional development.

Yoodli

Yoodli is an AI-enabled platform designed to enhance users' communication skills through real-time feedback. The platform allows individuals to practice public speaking by recording their video presentations and receiving constructive critiques on various aspects of their delivery, including word choice, eye contact, and gestures. By creating a pressure-free environment, Yoodli enables users to refine their communication abilities effectively, making it a valuable tool for personal and professional development.
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