Cantos Ventures

Cantos Ventures is a venture capital firm that puts money into technology it calls near-frontier, meaning ideas close to commercial reality that could change industries. Its work covers four areas.

What Cantos Ventures offers

• Climate tech investment — for companies such as Twelve, which turns carbon dioxide into chemicals and fuels, and Solugen, which makes plant-derived replacements for petroleum products.
• Techbio investment — for firms including Faeth, which works on cancer science through metabolism, and Sixfold Bio, which develops delivery methods for RNA therapies.
• Aerospace investment — for firms including Astranis, which builds small geostationary satellites, and Atomos, which designs orbital transit vehicles.
• Next-generation computing — for firms such as Atom Computing, which builds quantum computers from individually controlled atoms.

Who it works with

The firm also lists Dusty Robotics, Fleetzero, Tiamat and Radiant among its holdings, covering construction automation, electric ocean freight, plant-based compounds and small nuclear reactors. It publishes interviews with portfolio founders.