Cantos has 10 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

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It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2016. It led 2 of the 9 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is MoldCo's $8M Seed round in September 2025, which it led. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (3) and Developer tools and cloud (3). It has co-invested with Andreessen Horowitz, Toba Capital and Overture Ventures, most often Andreessen Horowitz (3 rounds).

About Cantos

What Cantos invests in

• Health and bio · 3 · 30%
• Developer tools and cloud · 3 · 30%
• Climate and energy · 3 · 30%
• Robotics and hardware · 3 · 30%
• Manufacturing and industrial · 3 · 30%
• Logistics and mobility · 1 · 10%
• Legal and compliance · 1 · 10%
• Fintech · 1 · 10%

Cantos recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
MMoldCo	Seed · $8M · lead	Sep 18, 2025	none named
BBedrock Energy	Series A · $12M	Jan 22, 2025	Titanium Ventures (lead), Elemental Impact, Overture Ventures +5
BBedrock Energy	Seed · $8.5M	Oct 11, 2023	Long Journey Ventures, Divergent Capital, Overture Ventures +4
AApex	Series A · $16M	Jun 22, 2023	XYZ Venture Capital, Shield Capital (lead), J2 Ventures +2
RRadiant	Series B+ · $40M	Apr 24, 2023	McKinley Alaska Growth Capital, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (lead) +3
CCharacter Bio	Series A · $18M	May 17, 2022	Casdin Capital, Lifeforce Capital, Catalio +6
AAstranis	Series B+ · $90M	Feb 13, 2020	Page One Ventures, Matt Kraning, Y Combinator +6
SSkyryse	Series B+ · $13M · lead	Dec 17, 2019	Eclipse, William Clay Ford, Jr., Venrock +1

How Cantos invests

Cantos portfolio companies

• MMoldCo$8MSeed · Sep 2025
• BBedrock Energy$12MSeries A · Jan 2025
• AApex$16MSeries A · Jun 2023
• RRadiant$40MSeries B+ · Apr 2023
• CCharacter Bio$18MSeries A · May 2022
• AAstranis$90MSeries B+ · Feb 2020
• SSkyryse$13MSeries B+ · Dec 2019
• EEthic$13MSeries A · Jul 2019
• AArbor Energybacker
• SSoloPulsebacker

Most frequent co-investors

• AAndreessen Horowitz3 shared rounds · last Jun 22, 2023
• TToba Capital2 shared rounds · last Jan 22, 2025
• OOverture Ventures2 shared rounds · last Jan 22, 2025
• WWireframe Ventures2 shared rounds · last Jan 22, 2025
• FFirst Star Ventures2 shared rounds · last Jan 22, 2025
• IIndustry Ventures2 shared rounds · last May 17, 2022
• VVenrock2 shared rounds · last Feb 13, 2020
• TTitanium Ventures1 shared round · last Jan 22, 2025
• EEnergy Impact Partners1 shared round · last Jan 22, 2025
• EElemental Impact1 shared round · last Jan 22, 2025
• SSFV Capital1 shared round · last Jan 22, 2025
• LLong Journey Ventures1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2023

Similar investors

• GGates Frontier10 companies · 7 deals in 12 mo
• CCapricorn Investment Group10 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• PPowerhouse Ventures10 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• HHostplus11 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• TThe Engine Ventures11 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
• UUVC Partners11 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 9 rounds on Recent Funding that name Cantos. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Cantos, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/cantos (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.