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Cantos

Founders Ian Rountree

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Total investments 104
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 68
Rounds per year 13.00
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Internet
  • Financial Services
Summary

Cantos is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Cantos, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Tony Jamous. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Ranch Ventures, Brad Flora. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, VentureSouth, Uncork Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are FinTech, Information Technology. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Solugen, Qwil, Vence Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The average startup value when the investment from Cantos is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Ian Rountree.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Salient Motion

Electronics
Operating Systems
Software
01 Oct 2024 Irvine, California, United States

Intramotev Autonomous Rail

Autonomous Vehicles
Freight Service
Logistics
Railroad
$14M15 Aug 2024 St Louis, Missouri, United States

The Lumber Manufactory

Manufacturing
Wood Processing
$4M28 May 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Neros Technologies

Drones
Industrial Automation
Manufacturing
$10M20 May 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Nabla Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
$26M14 May 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Shinkei Systems

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Intelligent Systems
Seafood
Supply Chain Management
$6M05 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Furno

Construction
Industrial
Industrial Engineering
Machinery Manufacturing
$6M02 Feb 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Bedrock Energy

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Commercial
$8M11 Oct 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Cache Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
$4M25 Aug 2023 Champaign, Illinois, United States
News
Construction robotics firm Dusty raises $16.5M

– Dusty Robotics, a construction robotics company, raised $16.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Canaan Partners and featured NextGen Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Root Ventures and Cantos Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and product line.

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Total investments 104
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 13.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Salient Motion

Electronics
Operating Systems
Software
01 Oct 2024 Irvine, California, United States

Intramotev Autonomous Rail

Autonomous Vehicles
Freight Service
Logistics
Railroad
$14M15 Aug 2024 St Louis, Missouri, United States

The Lumber Manufactory

Manufacturing
Wood Processing
$4M28 May 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Neros Technologies

Drones
Industrial Automation
Manufacturing
$10M20 May 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Nabla Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
$26M14 May 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Shinkei Systems

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Intelligent Systems
Seafood
Supply Chain Management
$6M05 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States

Furno

Construction
Industrial
Industrial Engineering
Machinery Manufacturing
$6M02 Feb 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Bedrock Energy

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Commercial
$8M11 Oct 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Cache Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
$4M25 Aug 2023 Champaign, Illinois, United States
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