Cantos
99
7M
65
12.38
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0.32
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 99
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 12.38
- Follow on index
- 0.32
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (26)
- Software (20)
- FinTech (14)
- Financial Services (12)
- Medical (12) Show 112 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (87)
- Canada (3)
- United Kingdom (3)
- Nigeria (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 60M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.94
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
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| Atomos Space | 12 Jan 2022 | Logistics, Transportation, Robotics, Aerospace, Space Travel, Nuclear | Seed | 5M | United States, Colorado, Denver |
| Cache Energy | 25 Aug 2023 | Energy Storage, Energy, Electrical Distribution, Power Grid | Seed | 4M | United States, Illinois, Champaign |
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