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Cantos

Cantos, a venture fund based in San Francisco, California, was founded in 2016 by Ian Rountree. The fund focuses on a wide range of industries including Advanced Materials, Energy, Robotics, FinTech, BioTech, and SpaceTech. Cantos invests in companies at various stages from Pre-Seed to Series A, with a portfolio that includes Twelve, Dusty Robotics, and Maxwell Financial Labs among others. With 81 investments and 5 exits, Cantos describes itself as a pre-seed firm exploring the convergence of software, hardware, and wetware. For more information, visit their website at www.cantos.vc.

About

About

About

Bio

A pre-seed firm obsessively pursuing the near frontier – where software, hardware, & wetware intersect.

Location

San Francisco, California

Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Partner name

Ian Rountree

Bio

A pre-seed firm obsessively pursuing the near frontier – where software, hardware, & wetware intersect.

Location

San Francisco, California

Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Partner name

Ian Rountree

Fund

Fund

Fund

Fund Focus

Advanced Materials, Energy, Oil & Gas, Construction Tech, PropTech, Robotics, FinTech, AgTech (FarmTech), Software, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML), Hardware, Big Data & Analytics, ClimateTech & CleanTech, BioTech, Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Information Technology, IoT (Internet of Things), Pharmaceuticals, SaaS, Advertising (AdTech), E-Commerce, Marketing (MarTech), Food and Beverage, SpaceTech, Transportation, Computer

Number of investments

81

Number of exits

5

Fund Type

Venture Fund

Portfolio Companies

Twelve, Dusty Robotics, Eridan, Maxwell Financial Labs, Arable, Ava, Ethic, Dharma Labs, Prellis Biologics, Vence, Aizon, Knowde, Mission Barns, Venus Aerospace, Character Biosciences, Lively, Skyryse, Atom Computing, Radiant, Catalog

Cantos

Cantos, a venture fund based in San Francisco, California, was founded in 2016 by Ian Rountree. The fund focuses on a wide range of industries including Advanced Materials, Energy, Robotics, FinTech, BioTech, and SpaceTech. Cantos invests in companies at various stages from Pre-Seed to Series A, with a portfolio that includes Twelve, Dusty Robotics, and Maxwell Financial Labs among others. With 81 investments and 5 exits, Cantos describes itself as a pre-seed firm exploring the convergence of software, hardware, and wetware. For more information, visit their website at www.cantos.vc.

About

Bio

A pre-seed firm obsessively pursuing the near frontier – where software, hardware, & wetware intersect.

Location

San Francisco, California

Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Partner name

Ian Rountree

Fund

Fund Focus

Advanced Materials, Energy, Oil & Gas, Construction Tech, PropTech, Robotics, FinTech, AgTech (FarmTech), Software, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML), Hardware, Big Data & Analytics, ClimateTech & CleanTech, BioTech, Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Information Technology, IoT (Internet of Things), Pharmaceuticals, SaaS, Advertising (AdTech), E-Commerce, Marketing (MarTech), Food and Beverage, SpaceTech, Transportation, Computer

Number of investments

81

Number of exits

5

Fund Type

Venture Fund

Portfolio Companies

Twelve, Dusty Robotics, Eridan, Maxwell Financial Labs, Arable, Ava, Ethic, Dharma Labs, Prellis Biologics, Vence, Aizon, Knowde, Mission Barns, Venus Aerospace, Character Biosciences, Lively, Skyryse, Atom Computing, Radiant, Catalog