Based in San Francisco, Cendana Capital invests in seed VC funds
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Founded date: 2010
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 2
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 01.11.2022 | Mechanical... | mechanical-orchard.com | $26M | United Sta... |
| 14.07.2022 | Pebble | pebble.finance | $6M | United Sta... |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.11.2025 | Baobab Ventures Debuts With $15 Million Solo GP Fund Targeting Global Deep-Tech Founders | Carles Reina, a longtime operator and early-stage investor known for backing deep-tech and AI companies, has launched Baobab Ventures, a $15 million solo GP fund focused on pre-seed and seed teams working in AI, robotics, and defence. The a... |
| 26.11.2025 | ElevenLabs and Revolut backer launches $15M solo GP fund | An angel investor in UK AI unicorn ElevenLabs and Revolut has launched a $15m solo GP fund to back pre-seed and seed stage founders building startups across AI, robotics, and defence. Carles Reina has launched Baobab Ventures, an “oversubsc... |
| 22.08.2024 | CruxOCM: Control Room Co-Pilot Platform Secures $17 Million (Series A) | CruxOCM, a leader in co-pilot technology for control room operators, announced the closing of a $17 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), with participation from new investors, includin... |
| 11.04.2024 | Cendana, Kline Hill have a fresh $105M to buy stakes in seed VC funds from LPs looking to sell | If you ask investors to name the biggest challenge for venture capital today, you’ll likely get a near-unanimous answer: lack of liquidity. Despite investing in startups or VC funds that increased in value, due to the dearth of IPOs, those ... |
| 08.09.2023 | Exclusive: Cendana Capital closes on $470M more to back seed-stage fund managers | Michael Kim of Cendana Capital is often a first call for emerging seed-stage fund managers. Cendana has invested in many VC teams that have gone on to enjoy great success — like Forerunner Ventures, K9 Ventures, and IA Ventures. Thanks to i... |
| 06.05.2021 | Houston, we have liftoff: Mattias Ljungman launches data-driven $60 million early-stage fund Moonfire | Moonfire Ventures founder and former Atomico co-founder Mattias Ljungman has launched a new $60 million fund with the goal of becoming the most data-driven VC firm in Europe. Moonfire Ventures’ LPs include the standard non-disclosure of ins... |
| 31.03.2021 | Cendana has raised a $30 million ‘fund of funds’ for VCs managing $15 million or less | Cendana Capital, a San Francisco-based fund of funds manager, has amassed stakes in more than 100 venture firms since launching in 2010. For the most part, it did this by focusing on managers who are raising funds of $100 million or less in... |
| 30.06.2020 | Cendana Capital, which has been backing seed funds for a decade, has $278 million more to invest | When in 2010, former VC Michael Kim set out to raise a fund that he would invest in a spate of micro VC managers, the investors to which he turned didn’t get it. Why pay Kim and his firm, Cendana Capital, a management fee on top of the mana... |
| 15.11.2018 | Wonder Ventures aims to dazzle L.A. startups with its new seed-stage fund | Dustin Rosen thinks L.A. has a problem, aside from its famously car-choked highways. There aren’t enough investors willing to write small checks. Why not? The way he sees it, most of the so-called micro venture funds have grown their funds ... |
| 11.07.2018 | ‘Airbnb mafia’ fund Wave Capital makes it official, closing its debut fund with $55 million | A couple of weeks ago, Airbnb announced some major changes to the ways it compensates employees before it goes public. At least two former Airbnb employees and a longtime VC will be ready to fund those who leave when it does. They’ve been w... |
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