Cantos
2026-08-31cantos.vc
Overview
What they do
Cantos is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building technology to transform critical industries and the physical world. It focuses on companies addressing large-scale problems, often described as deep tech or the near frontier, and backs these entrepreneurs from day one. The firm highlights investments in areas such as advanced defense systems, climate technology, and next-generation industrial solutions.
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What they look for
Cantos invests from the earliest stages in deep tech or near-frontier startups that apply transformative technologies to critical industries and large physical-world problems, including defense, climate, and industrial systems.
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Stage
Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+
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Sectors
AI, Climate, Deeptech, Govtech and defence, Healthcare, Mobility and logistics
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Based
San Francisco, US
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Sources
Portfolio, cheque size and the rest
The 38 companies they have backed that we can see, the cheque they write, and whether they are deploying right now.
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