Cantos Ventures
cantos.vc Direct investor
Cantos Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on areas such as defense, energy, robotics, and AI. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco.
Cantos Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series B, in defense, energy, robotics and AI. 41 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Our firm exists to provide the initial capital and ongoing counsel to these rare individuals.”
— Cantos Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Founded
- 2016
- Portfolio
- 41 companies
Team, as Cantos Ventures publishes it
- Ian Rountree General Partner
- Grant Gregory Partner
- Amee Kapadia Principal
- Sofia Garcia CFO
Names and roles exactly as listed on cantos.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 60 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Metaplanet 3 shared companies: earth-ai.com, solugen.com, astranis.com
- Refactor Capital Management, LLC 3 shared companies: solugen.com, astranis.com, pilgrimlabs.com
- Silent Ventures Management, LLC 3 shared companies: castelion.com, arbor.co, pilgrimlabs.com
- Tamarack Global Manager LLC 2 shared companies: earth-ai.com, radiantnuclear.com
- Harpoon Ventures 2 shared companies: solugen.com, astranis.com
- Lowercarbon Capital 2 shared companies: solugen.com, arbor.co
- Felicis Ventures 2 shared companies: astranis.com, radiantnuclear.com
- Friends & Family Capital Management, LLC 2 shared companies: astranis.com, radiantnuclear.com
- Autopilot Management Company LLC 2 shared companies: radiantnuclear.com, skyryse.com
- Gigascale Capital 2 shared companies: radiantnuclear.com, arbor.co
and 50 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cantos Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
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