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What does Cantos invest in?
Cantos invests most often at Seed and Series A (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Hardtech, Subscription and Productivity Tools.
Cantos highlights
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7 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 59% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $4.0M
What they do
We invest in people who will transform the physical world.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $400K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- HardtechSubscriptionProductivity Tools
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first48 appearances
- 2026
5 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- May
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
16 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
8 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- Feb
- Feb
- 2023
2 rounds
- Mar
- Mar
- 2022
5 rounds
- Nov
- Jul
- May
- May
- Mar
- 2021
2 rounds
- Dec
- Apr
- 2020
2 rounds
- Oct
- Apr
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
HNHa NguyenChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
IRIan RountreeExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JHJulian Hertel RountreeExecutive Officer, DirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$340Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Cantos Ventures, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 312922
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Cantos's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Level Ventures1 fundFund Vintage Committed Cantos - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
10 of 13 we have independently watched raise
Arbor Overview ModularAstranis Overview High-OrbitCastelion Overview PeaceEarth AI OverviewNeros Overview UnmannedRadiant Nuclear OverviewSkyryse Overview AdvancedSolugen Overview AdvancedThe Lumber ManufactoryVital Lyfe OverviewAndeanPilgrim Overview BiologicalShinkei Overview Artisanal
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.