Cantos Ventures I

Cantos Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in the United States. It specializes in pre-seed and seed-stage investments, focusing on areas where technology can address significant global challenges, including climate change, disease, poverty, and conflict. The firm actively seeks to invest in sectors such as industrial automation, synthetic biology, decentralized finance, and startups that leverage technology in pre-inflection industries like real estate, healthcare, logistics, parenting, accessibility, and finance. Cantos Ventures typically invests between $25,000 and $50,000 per transaction, with equity investments ranging from $0.02 million to $0.05 million. The firm is selective in its investment strategy, avoiding consumer social platforms, on-demand services, no-tech e-commerce, and advertising or marketing technologies.

Amee Kapadia

Principal

Ian Rountree

General Partner and Founder

Past deals in Industrial Machinery

Earth AI

Series B in 2025
Earth AI is a predictive explorer and driller specializing in critical minerals. The company operates as a vertically integrated mineral exploration firm, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance mineral targeting. By predicting the locations of metallic ore bodies, Earth AI focuses on metals such as copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, and rare earth elements. This innovative approach aims to improve the success rates of mineral discoveries while simultaneously reducing operational risks and costs for mining explorers.

Intramotev

Series A in 2024
Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric, enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains.

Nabla Bio

Series A in 2024
Nabla Bio operates an autoreverse platform that facilitates the rapid discovery of novel protein variants with unique properties. By leveraging insights gained from billions of natural proteins, the company engineers these enhanced proteins for both medical and industrial applications. Through extensive experimentation, Nabla Bio develops new medicines and improves nutritional products, allowing clients to conduct complex measurements of protein function and implement innovative solutions in various fields.

Shinkei Systems

Venture Round in 2024
Shinkei Systems is a robotic company intended to minimize fish waste and multiply shelf-life. It offer key point inference, depth perception, surgical accuracy, species and production tracking to the fishing industry, enabling fishing businesses to remove labor costs and speed up processing without any error.

Furno

Seed Round in 2024
Furno is a climate technology company that produces zero-emission ordinary Portland cement. Its technology combines oxyfuel combustion and a novel design to develop plants, providing the cement industry with agile, scalable, carbon-neutral, energy-efficient, and less capital-intensive cement technology.

Pow.bio

Series A in 2023
Pow.bio specializes in intelligent fermentation services tailored for industrial and synthetic biology applications. The company aims to transform innovative ideas into profitable products by utilizing continuous fermentation combined with advanced control methodologies. This approach allows Pow.bio to optimize fermentation processes rapidly, resulting in high yields at reduced costs. Their fermentation capabilities range from 1 to 100 liters, accommodating various microorganisms, including bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi. By addressing the capacity challenges in fermentation, Pow.bio seeks to empower scientists to develop sustainable alternatives that can compete with traditional, less sustainable practices.

Furno

Seed Round in 2023
Furno is a climate technology company that produces zero-emission ordinary Portland cement. Its technology combines oxyfuel combustion and a novel design to develop plants, providing the cement industry with agile, scalable, carbon-neutral, energy-efficient, and less capital-intensive cement technology.

Intramotev

Venture Round in 2022
Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric, enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains.

Nabla Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Nabla Bio operates an autoreverse platform that facilitates the rapid discovery of novel protein variants with unique properties. By leveraging insights gained from billions of natural proteins, the company engineers these enhanced proteins for both medical and industrial applications. Through extensive experimentation, Nabla Bio develops new medicines and improves nutritional products, allowing clients to conduct complex measurements of protein function and implement innovative solutions in various fields.

Earth AI

Seed Round in 2021
Earth AI is a predictive explorer and driller specializing in critical minerals. The company operates as a vertically integrated mineral exploration firm, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance mineral targeting. By predicting the locations of metallic ore bodies, Earth AI focuses on metals such as copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, and rare earth elements. This innovative approach aims to improve the success rates of mineral discoveries while simultaneously reducing operational risks and costs for mining explorers.

Intramotev

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric, enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains.

Pow.bio

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pow.bio specializes in intelligent fermentation services tailored for industrial and synthetic biology applications. The company aims to transform innovative ideas into profitable products by utilizing continuous fermentation combined with advanced control methodologies. This approach allows Pow.bio to optimize fermentation processes rapidly, resulting in high yields at reduced costs. Their fermentation capabilities range from 1 to 100 liters, accommodating various microorganisms, including bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi. By addressing the capacity challenges in fermentation, Pow.bio seeks to empower scientists to develop sustainable alternatives that can compete with traditional, less sustainable practices.
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