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Cantos

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Cantos provides initial capital and ongoing counsel to founders building early-stage technology companies. Its investments focus on sectors that foster abundance, resilience, and technological advantage, including robotics, nuclear energy, defense, and AI.

StagesPre-seed · Seed · Series A · Series B+
Invests inUS
Deals recorded38

What they invest in

  • Our firm exists to provide the initial capital and ongoing counsel to these rare individuals. source
  • Ian founded Cantos in 2016 to invest in innovation outside of Silicon Valley's comfort zone, seeing that technology would permeate every industry and go three-dimensional. source

All investments and operations

38 operations
CompanyRoundAmountDateCo-investorsSource
Andean SystemsPre-Seed–––Portfolio page
Apex––––Portfolio page
Arbor
Modular gas turbines
Pre-Seed–––Portfolio page
Astranis
High-Orbit Satellites
Series B–––Portfolio page
Asymm––––Portfolio page
Atom Computing––––Portfolio page
Bedrock Energy––––Portfolio page
Cache Energy––––Portfolio page
Castelion
Peace through deterrence
Series A–––Portfolio page
Character Bio––––Portfolio page
Show all 38 operations
Debut Bio––––Portfolio page
Dusty Robotics––––Portfolio page
Earth AI
AI for Mining
Seed–––Portfolio page
Faeth––––Portfolio page
Fleetzero––––Portfolio page
Furno Materials––––Portfolio page
Heaviside––––Portfolio page
Inpho––––Portfolio page
Intramotev––––Portfolio page
Limelight Steel––––Portfolio page
Modulo Bio––––Portfolio page
MoldCo––––Portfolio page
Nabla Bio––––Portfolio page
Neros
Unmanned superiority
Pre-Seed–––Portfolio page
Pilgrim
Biological threat detection
Pre-Seed–––Portfolio page
Radiant Nuclear
Modular nuclear Reactors
Series A–––Portfolio page
Remedy––––Portfolio page
Resurgent Industries––––Portfolio page
Salient Motion––––Portfolio page
Shinkei
Artisanal quality at industrial scale
Seed–––Portfolio page
Skyryse
Advanced flight automation
Series A–––Portfolio page
SoloPulse––––Portfolio page
Solugen
Advanced chemical production
Seed–––Portfolio page
The Lumber Manufactory
The world's most efficient lumber mills
Seed–––Portfolio page
Twelve––––Portfolio page
Venus Aerospace––––Portfolio page
Vital Lyfe
Universal Water Systems
Pre-Seed–––Portfolio page
Vitra Labs––––Portfolio page

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