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Cantos

@cantos

2 months

Today marks the next step in our evolution as a firm. Welcome to the team, @grant__gregory !

Cantos’ end game, and welcome Grant!

Our founder on building an enduring firm and taking our next step

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

2/ Our site has changed too, to show off the ACTUAL THINGS IN THE REAL WORLD the companies we partner with are building.

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@cantos

2 years

You may have noticed our team has grown recently. It's not the only thing... #deeptech

Introducing Cantos 3: $50M to Back Near Frontier Startups

From a young age I’ve been acutely aware of our own humanity and the existential dilemmas that we face. Losing a parent as a kid gives you a heavy dose of gestalt. At least, it did for me, and that…

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

0/ In our early days we were more generalist, but since early 2018 we've been all-in on deep tech. We have a new look reflecting that focus...

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

We've been talking a big game about nuclear energy. It was time to put our money where our mouth is. Thrilled to announce at long last that we made one of our largest investments to date in portable fission reactor startup @RadiantNuclear !

The Future is Radiant

Why we invested in Radiant

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Cantos

@cantos

6 years

The era of clever opportunists has passed. The latest application era is over. A new infrastructure era has begun. Technologists now reign. We will not back any new pure-software co’s until further notice. 👩🏻‍🔬🚁🛰🔋⚙️🤖🔬⚗️👨🏾‍🚀

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

So we have a blog! First up @ameekapadia gives the state of play in engineering-led biology, why we use “TechBio” (shoutout @vasudevbailey ), and where we’re focused on investing.

What is TechBio?

Why Cantos invests in engineering-led biology

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

Cantos got its name from the stanzas of epic poetry. We view entrepreneurship as the modern hero’s journey, but the firm is named after the _units_ of said stories because they get written one word at a time. The future is built today.

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Cantos

@cantos

7 months

Cantos watching hard tech go mainstream

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@cantos

3 years

Our predictions for deep tech in 2022, by @ameekapadia and @andrewkirima 🚀🧬♻️

The Deep Tech Decade

Where Frontier Tech is Headed in 2022

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

We don't usually lead Series A's in our portfolio (only once before) but when we do... @AtomosSpace is headed to orbit! 🚀🛰️💨

Atomos tows a $16M load of funding to create tugboats in space | TechCrunch

Space needs tugboats, and Atomos Space is building a series of Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTV) that makes it possible to reposition satellites in space.

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

It’s official, @AtomosSpace raised $5M in a seed round we’re proud to support… and Co-Founders @Vanessa_J_Clark and @RamblingWilliam were guests on the very first episode of our podcast, Near Frontier!

Orbital Ubers with Vanessa Clark and William Kowalski of Atomos Space

Episode · Near Frontier · Today we're joined by Vanessa Clark and William Kowalski, cofounders of Atomos Space, an aerospace company transforming how we operate in space with orbital transfer...

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

At Cantos we believe in 10-20 years a handful of computational therapeutics discovery/design (“AIDD”) companies will be among the largest in the world. We think there’s a decent chance @nablabio will be one of them. Why we invested…

Designing Antibodies

Why we invested in Nabla Bio

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Cantos

@cantos

6 years

We’re proud to announce our investment in @strongholdxchg , bringing better institutional trading to digital assets on the @StellarOrg network. Go Tammy & Sean!!!

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

@HustleFundVC Us $250K-1M Pre-seed If your tech is organic DM @ameekapadia ; @andrewkirima if it’s inorganic. If it’s only bits don’t at us.

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

It’s coming 👀

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Cantos

@cantos

6 years

👋🏽 we’re actual humans, see? #vc3point0

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@cantos

3 years

soon

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

We finally get to share our largest investment with you. Skyryse’s mission is to make urban air mobility as cheap as hailing a car and we couldn’t be more about it 🚁

Skyryse

@skyryse

5 years

World, meet Luna. She just successfully conducted the world’s first fully autonomous end-to-end flight without a pilot’s hands on the controls in a modified, FAA-approved helicopter.

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

There’s a lot of hype, some FUD, and many questions about nuclear energy rn. Figured we’d give you the state of play… and why we’re optimistic. by @andrewkirima

Nuclear Energy: The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful

Climate change is accelerating, and we have just begun to feel its wrath. States like Texas that were once unaffected have experienced power grid failure by ignoring its momentous signs. Unusual…

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

Here’s how we see things...

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Cantos

@cantos

6 months

Cement is one of the materials that underpins modern life but its supply chain is inefficient AND it emits 2Gt CO2/year. We're proud to have backed @gurinder_nagra and the Furno team to solve these twin problems by improving regular old gray cement production w/o novel materials.

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

Our CS advisor answers the age-old question using data from @AngelList ...

Should Seed Investors Follow On?

We ran 10,000 simulations to try to find out.

www.angellist.com

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

Go ahead guess who owns 😈

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@cantos

3 years

Wait what? 😶‍🌫️

ian 💥➰

@IanRountree

3 years

Might rebrand @CantosVC next week idk

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@cantos

3 years

We’ve been proud partners of @catalogdna since pre-seed. Love watching them make DNA-based data storage and computing a reality! 💽 🧬

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@cantos

3 years

Our Near Frontier pod drops next week 😏

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@cantos

2 years

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs) are coming. We've known for a long time detonating prop (rather than burning it) is more efficient, but the heat would melt the engines. @NASA and @VenusAerospace are both making strides! 🚀 #hypersonics

NASA Validates Revolutionary Propulsion Design for Deep Space Missions - NASA

The RDRE differs from a traditional rocket engine by generating thrust using a supersonic combustion phenomenon known as a detonation. This design produces

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

1/ We think of our logo as a window––even a portal––to the near frontier. (Farcaster, anyone?)

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

*pinches ourselves*

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

2 years

Cantos launches its third fund, ploughing $50M into near-frontier startups by @Haje

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

wagfi (we’re all gonna fly it)

Skyryse

@skyryse

3 years

Want to learn to fly a helicopter like Jon Hamm? All it takes is 30 minutes and our FlightOS automated tech. See “how freakishly intuitive it is” to fly the world’s safest, most automated aircraft: #jonhamm #aviation #aviationsafety #aerospace

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

Same mission, new name. We've deepened our partnership with Character Biosciences (fka Clover Therapeutics) as they bring precision medicine to drug discovery Read more about how Character uses patient diversity to design drugs for diseases of aging here:

Precision Medicine meets Drug Discovery

Why we invested in Character Biosciences

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

Shoutout to @ArableLabs for boosting growers’ field intelligence and improving crop yields. Here’s to sustainably feeding ten billion humans 🥂🥬🍓

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

Proud to announce our partnership with @TiamatSciences ! Synbio + vertical farming + robotics… sign 👏 us 👏 up 👏

Plants — the New Bioreactors

Why we invested in Tiamat Sciences

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

notice anything different? miracles do happen 😎

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

We with @Prellisbio , @trueventures , @indbio , and @khoslaventures look to “grow order & surprise in a universe that in all other respects tends towards entropic stagnation.” 👏🏽🧬🧫 (quote credit @TheEconomist )

Prellis Biologics

@Prellisbio

5 years

Human Tissue Engineering Company Prellis Biologics Raises $8.7 Million Series A Round; Announces First Animal Transplant of Its 3D-Printed Tissue | Business Wire

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

In 1872 the avg American farmer fed roughly four other people. Today the avg farmer feeds about 155 other people 🌻🐓😳 #agtech

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@cantos

1 year

Our own @ameekapadia is on Wall Street today co-hosting the inaugural AI+Bio Summit with our friends at @HummingbirdVC @KdT_Ventures & @NYSE !

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

Wall Street will tell you, ESG is a mega-trend. This is why we backed @ethicinvesting in 2016 and continue to increase our position as they grow AUM 🌱🌍📈

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Cantos

@cantos

4 months

Thank you Soren & Olaf for letting us be your first believers!

Soren Monroe-Anderson

@soren_ma

4 months

Thrilled to officially announce a $10.9M pre-seed ( @cantos ) + seed ( @sequoia ) for @neros_tech ! More about what we’re up to 👇

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

👀 👀 👀

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

5 years

Frontier technologies are moving closer to the center of venture investment by @jshieber

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

Forget the next Uber and Airbnb. We want the next Genentech, ARM, Illumina, Qualcomm... ...whose IP provides the step-ladder to the next era of innovation.

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@cantos

6 years

In the Bay Area technology has led to an unsustainable rise in housing costs. We believe it has an ability (and responsibility) to address the problem too. Proud to have partnered w @OpenlandHQ earlier this year in that mission. 🏡🏢🏗

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@cantos

2 years

Listen to the latest episode of Near Frontier with @sduggleby of @VenusAerospace as we talk about their mission, culture, and how to build a hypersonic space plane.

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@cantos

2 years

Atomos simulating on-orbit autonomous rendezvous at their Denver HQ. "Dark in the office because it's dark in space [sort of]."

Atomos Space

@AtomosSpace

2 years

Checking the cameras after TVAC, Kieran and Vanessa observe from the Mission Operations Center as the rendezvous test rig runs behind them.

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@cantos

2 years

So hypothetically, if we were to launch a *Near Frontier* clothing line, who should we have design the merch? Hypothetically.

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Cantos

@cantos

1 year

A fresh $40M for @RadiantNuclear from a16z, Founders Fund, yours truly, and some other friends! ☢️⚡️🇺🇸

This Former SpaceX Engineer Just Raised $40 Million To Build Portable Nuclear Reactors

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund, Radiant Industries says its megawatt nuclear power generators are cleaner and safer compared to the diesel alternatives that dominate the market for...

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Cantos

@cantos

1 year

Our friend Elliot visited @solugen and wrote about why this Houston-based carbon-negative chemicals producer is so exciting. We certainly couldn’t have said it better!

Elliot Hershberg

@ElliotHershberg

1 year

In the aftermath of the SVB meltdown, it's never been more important to communicate *why* the startup ecosystem is crucial for our future. Here's the story of a startup aiming to decarbonize the chemical industry using biology:

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

More from us on Fleetzero soon but we’re more than a little excited to be part of their journey 🔋⚡️🚢

Fleetzero hunts for first huge ship to make battery powered

Fleetzero has an ambitious goal: to compete with global shipping companies with its own boats, powered entirely by electricity. The company just secured

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Cantos

@cantos

2 years

Fun fact: @twelve_co2 was our first deep tech investment, back in January 2017. Congrats to our Near Frontier gateway drug on their $130M Series B!

Twelve is recycling captured CO2 into fuel, sunglasses and more | TechCrunch

As climate change continues to be a forefront issue globally, many are petitioning for change and finding unique solutions to solving this issue. Twelve,

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Cantos

@cantos

3 years

3/ You'll notice the art for our podcast, Near Frontier () is changing too, with a sonic version of our logo and color-coded for our three primary focus areas––green for climate tech, blue for TechBio, and purple for aerospace/next-gen compute.

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@cantos

3 years

Cantos-backed companies nearly swept the podium for @FastCompany 's most innovative companies list! @solugen at 2nd and @twelve_co2 at 3rd 💁♻️🏆

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@cantos

11 months

The sky may be the limit for clean energy but what about looking down? We're proud to announce our seed investment in Bedrock Energy & @joselyn_lai ! Bedrock is repurposing & improving on tech from O&G to unlock geothermal for large buildings.

Exclusive: Bedrock raises $8.5M to bring geothermal to large buildings

Wireframe Ventures led the all-equity round.

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Cantos

@cantos

5 years

5% of petroleum output goes to making the chemicals in nearly everything you touch. Oil used to be plants. Let’s skip a few steps, including the pollution & explosions. @solugen and their peers are leading the bio-chemical revolution now upon us 🍃

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@cantos

1 year

Pro tip: when building for industrial transformation, paint it neon.

Solugen

@solugen

1 year

Our first Bioforge was built in less than 2 years. Most facilities of this kind take a minimum of 5.

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@cantos

8 months

Autonomous rendezvous from @AtomosSpace , coming to an orbit near you this March.

Atomos Space - Mission 1

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@cantos

2 years

Here at Cantos we offer neck-shortening services to inception-stage TechDinos—we mean TechBios

Jake Wintermute 🥥/acc

@SynBio1

2 years

In my three months of industry experience here is what I've learned so far in meme form

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Cantos

@cantos

6 years

We’ve been waiting for this moment. @Livelyhsa ’s marketplace is live! 🏩👩🏾‍⚕️🧘🏻‍♂️💊

Lively, Inc.

@Livelyhsa

6 years

Lively’s #HSA Marketplace focuses on the primary use case of all HSA accounts – spending #livelyHSA

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@cantos

3 years

This is why we made @astranis_space our second-largest investment 🛰 📡

Tren Griffin

@trengriffin

3 years

5/ Because launching rockets is so sexy and cool it causes people to ignore that the biggest markets enabled by space are on the ground. Rocket launch is a $5 billion dollar business. SpaceX is making it cheaper. Ground equipment for satellites is a $130 billion dollar business.

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@cantos

1 year

Arcturus is home! A job well done to the entire @Astranis team. 🛰️

Astranis says its first internet satellite is working 'perfectly' as company prepares to bring...

"We have a new way of connecting people in some of the most remote and underserved parts of the world," Astranis CEO John Gedmark told CNBC.

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@cantos

5 years

1 acre of grass absorbs up to 3 tons of carbon / yr. When it's unhealthy it loses much of that ability. With improved grazing techniques the world could sequester an additional 16.3 gigatons–nearly 3 years' of total U.S. emissions–over the next 30 yrs.

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@cantos

5 years

Lively is the future of HSAs and we’re super biased 🏥*️⃣🏦

Lively, Inc.

@Livelyhsa

5 years

We are so excited to be featured in @Forbes today (and on the front page) and officially announce $100 Million in Assets. #HSA #Forbes #Healthcare Thank you @ashleaebeling

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@cantos

4 months

Our M.O. is backing founders who are utterly obsessed with a massive, critical industry that most innovators ignore, but once they point it out you can't unsee it. Saif and the Shinkei team opened our eyes to commercial fishing. Follow along and get fish-pilled with us 🐟

Saif

@khawajasn

4 months

I’m excited to share that @ShinkeiSystems raised $6M in seed funding led by @cantos , with participation from @8vc , @ImpatientVC , @RavelinCap , @SusaVentures @humbavc , Carya, @RedAndBlueVC , @UndeterredCap , and more. Here's more about what we're up to 👇

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@cantos

7 years

Here’s our friend (& most frequent co-investor) @sethbannon of @fiftyyearsvc giving a characteristically inspiring talk at @SlushHQ :

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@cantos

6 years

We've made it even easier to find your calling among the 40 epics in the Cantos portfolio. Your story awaits... 🌅🌌🏞 #worldpositive #jobpostings #frontiertech

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@cantos

2 years

On the latest episode of Near Frontier we chat with @melanie_matheu of @Prellisbio about making organoids with lasers, developing fully human antibodies ex-vivo, and the long-term prospects of bio-printed organ transplantation. Listen here! 🩸🖨️🧫 #techbio

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@cantos

6 years

By 2040 our data storage needs will outstrip the available supply of microchip-grade silicon on the planet. If that doesn’t freak you out you’re not thinking hard enough. Good thing we’ve got @catalogdna .

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@cantos

2 years

After years of iteration on airframe design, today Venus unveiled their Mach 9 boost-glide plane, Stargazer 🤩🚀🛩

Venus Aerospace

@VenusAerospace

2 years

HOUSTON WE HAVE A SPACEPLANE! We proudly introduce STARGAZER™

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@cantos

5 years

When @3DCaptureApp makes a surprise appearance on one of Spain’s most popular shows...

Garrett Spiegel

@garrettspiegel

5 years

😳 Our office watched this like a suspense movie ❗️ live demo of our app ❓ by a stranger ‼️ on one of the most popular Spanish TV shows ⁉️ scanning Miss Spain 2003/current host of "La Voz" & its *FLAWLESS* 🎉👏🥳 ⭐️ for him & his impeccable technique

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@cantos

6 years

Whenever we text @NadavAHollander and Brendan they’re basically like, “Can’t we’re building.” Discipline shows. 💁🏻‍♂️

Dharma

@Dharma_HQ

6 years

Dharma Community Update: 1) Formalized Mainnet deployment procedures 2) Merged Collateralizer Contract 3) Dharma.js improvements

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@cantos

2 years

We look for companies skewed from the consensus, where the crowd is mostly right about the end state but wrong about how to get there. Examples: - @skyryse : safer easier planes & helis not flying cars - @MissionBarns : lab-grown fat w/ plant-based protein - @Humane : not AR but ___

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@cantos

4 years

We are donating to every organization, cause, @GoFundMe , and Change petition we can find that can help bring about structural change WRT to institutionalized racism in the US. We also want to meet more black frontier tech entrepreneurs. Asking for your help and guidance.

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@cantos

8 years

Our friends at @ArableLabs have a great #agtech blog. Check it out:

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2 years

The NRC is the biggest hurdle in approving new fission plants. If you founded a microreactor company you might want its former Commissioner on your Board. So that's what @RadiantNuclear did.

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@cantos

6 years

<— Proud @DharmaProtocol investors and fans of DeFi 💪🏾💪🏼💪🏽

Set Labs ⚖️

@SetProtocol

6 years

We're proud to announce DeFi, an alliance of decentralized finance platforms dedicated to developing the open financial system. @DharmaProtocol @0xProject @AbacusProtocol @WalletConnect

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@cantos

6 years

Two Cantos co’s on this list! We 🖤 LA

These 5 companies relocated from SF to LA — here's why | Built In LA

Check out these four companies who made the move and why it’s paying off.

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@cantos

4 years

The thing about rocket ships is they usually take years to get off the ground. When we invested in @SymbioRobotics ' seed round 4.5yrs ago we knew it'd be a while before people started talking about them. Well, that time as come 🚀🤖🚗

Symbio Robotics raises $30 million and launches computing platform to make robots ‘more intelligent’

Startup company Symbio Robotics has raises more than $30 million in funding and has launched a computing platform to make robots “more intelligent”. Symbio says it is “pioneering the next frontier …

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@cantos

4 years

We’re here for it, have been since the Seed round! 🏥🌍🧑🏿‍⚕️

Goke

@ThisGokeBoySef

4 years

The healthcare revolution will be televised 💪🏾

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@cantos

2 months

We have some big news 📰

Grant Gregory

@grant__gregory

2 months

I’m excited to finally share the big news: I'm joining @Cantos where I'll continue investing in frontier categories at the pre-seed + seed stages. I’m thrilled to join @IanRountree , @AmeeKapadia , & the rest of the team. Definitionally, cantos are sections that provide breaks

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Why we should electrify ocean freight is sorta obvious so we figured we’d tell you about the other reason we invested in Fleetzero… fighting diseconomies of scale in our supply chain🔋🚢

Electrification of Things: By Sea

Why we invested in Fleetzero

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@cantos

1 year

Luckily for you Deep Tech Demo Day is recorded. You can still tune in!

Brayton Williams ⏻

@BraytonKey

1 year

Deep Tech Demo Day is LIVE @BoostVC ! 34 startup profiles from 13 different funds 👀 Categories include: Bio, Aerospace, Crypto, AI, Robotics, Climate, Gaming and more 🤖🧬🚀🌱 Investors: browse, meet & invest 💰you can still join via

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@cantos

3 years

Jet fuel from captured CO2?? 👀

Twelve

@twelve_co2

3 years

#StayTuned

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@cantos

1 year

A monumental day for @Astranis ! Our heartiest congratulations to the team that worked so hard to make this happen!! 🍾🎊 And thank you SpaceX for the ride all the way to GEO.

John Gedmark

@Gedmark

1 year

CONTACT. The @Astranis spacecraft separated on schedule and we have achieved contact. So far: confirmed successful solar array and antenna deployments. Voltage readings good. Batteries charged. Systems nominal.

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2 years

The deep tech founder journey can feel lonely. So we started Near Frontier to share lessons from founders building bleeding edge hardware and bio startups… to show you’re not alone.

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2 years

Check out @VenusAerospace 's Stargazer designs in @Newsweek . Hypersonic travel is on the horizon!

Texas Company Announces Aircraft It Says Can Fly From LA to Tokyo in 1 Hour

The Venus Aerospace startup, located in Houston, says the Mach 9 hypersonic aircraft will be capable of "one-hour global travel."

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@cantos

10 months

Think hardware startups can't move fast? Fleetzero went from render to reality in under 18 months.

drew

@wandzilak_drew

11 months

Staying in the water, FleetZero ( @fleetzero1 ) is designing the world’s first long-range zero emission electric container ship. And they are doing this at cost parity with fossil fuel-powered ships. The company has raised $17M+ from @Breakthrough , @climatecap , & @cantos .

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@cantos

4 years

We are open for business. We will not stop backing breakthrough technical entrepreneurs even in a recession. We have only deployed half of our active fund & our LPs are committed to the long-term with us. We are finalizing 2 investments this week & will make 2 new ones in Q2.

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@cantos

3 years

We did something different this week on #NearFrontier … @andrewkirima & @ameekapadia talked through their deep tech predictions for 2022 🔮🧬🛰

The Deep Tech Decade: Cantos Chats Where Deep Tech is Headed in 2022

Cantos analysts Amee and Andrew dive into their top predictions for what deep tech might see in 2022. Shownotes: Our 2022 predictions blog post Trailblazer's

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@cantos

3 years

4 billion people don’t have broadband internet connections today. That’s about to change 🛰

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@cantos

7 years

While much of the tech community is distracted by crypto volatility, our portco @ArableLabs is making sure we aren’t limited to a diet of crickets and seaweed in 30 years. #agtech

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@cantos

5 years

We’re going to start calling what we look for “IRL tech” 🧬⚙️🏗🚁⚗️🛰🥓

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@cantos

3 years

@RadiantNuclear See how Radiant's TRISO-based, helium-cooled reactor design works:

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@cantos

4 years

Welcome to the bio-printed future, Future Ventures!

Steve Jurvetson

@FutureJurvetson

4 years

Building a Surrogate Human Immune System We just led an investment in Prellis Bio to 3D-print an army of externalized human lymph nodes for antibody therapy for COVID-19 and potentially all new pandemic diseases. My summary: More:

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@cantos

2 years

FIRED. UP.

Astranis Space Technologies

@Astranis

2 years

Our mission is to connect the world — we believe that launching advanced technology into space will improve life here on Earth.

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@cantos

6 years

We have a hunch VR will be the technology of 2019 (hellooo, Oculus ‘Santa Cruz’). It’s early days for the space but we’re thrilled to announce our foray into it by way of the rock star team at @supermediumvr 👽🌐🤠 #OASIS

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@cantos

4 months

Take our money @RadiantNuclear ! Oh wait you already did. Here's what a 2MWe installation could look like.

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@cantos

3 years

Near Frontier ep 2️⃣ tomorrow!

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@cantos

7 years

We believe in DLT but remain concerned about PoW’s energy usage. While current rates shouldn’t be extrapolated, BTC & ETH are already unsustainable. This is one reason we support @StellarOrg & advocate for @lightning ... & nuclear fusion. #ScaleSustainably

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@cantos

3 years

All qubits are not created equal! Coherence times determine how many physical qubits are needed for a logical qubit, and Atom’s times are MANY multiples of other quantum computing companies. ⚛️ 🔥

Atom Computing

@Atom_Computing

3 years

Our first-generation #QuantumComputing system, code named Phoenix, IS REAL - #atom stability and coherence times are what REALLY matter.

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@cantos

11 months

@joselyn_lai Our friends at @WireframeVC led the round w/ participation from some of our favorite co-investors: @FirstStarVC , @LongJourneyVC , @Overture_VC , @TobaCapital , @gigascale , @SophiePurdom & @climatecap .

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