Cantos
@cantos
A 1st-round venture capital firm in pursuit of legends in the making solving the world's biggest problems
*Everyone* likes to talk about vertical integration, very few founders embrace the hardest parts of the stack Shinkei is a great example of the latter – they tackle the messy (fishy) parts of the business head on. It's substantially more work but the upside is much higher *(See…
"We thought let's just go risk on." @khawajasn (Founder & CEO, Shinkei) talks about their bold strategy in the fish market: "It sounded pretty unhinged to verticalize...but it's absolute progress when you have such a huge difference in the fish." "Fishermen make more money. In…
And that’s a wrap on the 3rd annual AIxBio Summit! h/t @ameekapadia on what’s become _the_ (un)conference at this intersection.
Thanks to everyone who turned out for our AIxBio kickoff party in Soho last night!
Oh hey we've backed half of those founders!
Time to get real on space and what it takes to invest — and why @ApexSpacecraft is the platform that will allow the U.S. to dominate the New Space Race Great chat with @_Eric_Romo from @GoToImpulse, @Gedmark from @Astranis, @WillBruey from @VardaSpace moderated by the one and…
Now we have video showing what two metric tons of West Virginia graphite looks like as it's extruded by our friends at Amsted Graphite Materials. This is the first reactor order of American-made, nuclear-grade graphite in over a decade, and it's coming to @RadiantNuclear!
Feast your eyes on two metric tons of West Virginia graphite that will be slowing down neutrons in our first nuclear reactor by next year! Baked at over 2500C by Amsted Graphite Materials, it’s the first reactor order of American-made, nuclear-grade, graphite in over a decade.
It's official: America is going to build millions of drones. Proud to have our Archer Strike featured as the FPV drone of choice for the US military. 🇺🇸
build ➡️ test ➡️ learn ➡️ repeat.
Red, white, and relentless. 500+ hot fires pushing the frontier of flight. #BuildTestLearnRepeat #IndependenceThroughInnovation
Framers: layout isn't just marking out track. It's communication. When you lay out your work with Dusty, you're bringing the model to life on the slab. Your crews can see it, trust it, and build off it. #FileToField #FramingLayout
🚀 Dreams of Steel. Dual-use momentum. Deep tech on the rise. Venus Aerospace closed out Deep Tech Week with a bang at the Dreams of Steel closing party in San Francisco — and our CTO @aduggleby delivered a keynote on the future of propulsion that’s not just aspirational, but…
Water is Life Partnering with Vital Lyfe Water is life — and even with today’s technological marvels, we haven’t made enough progress delivering water to the entire world. 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, 3.5 billion lack proper sanitation, and 2.3 billion can’t…
It’s only thanks to our incredible team that we are here. We’re building hardware at lightning speed—come join us. For now, back to building.
We've raised $22M Series A to restore American food sovereignty. Co-led by @foundersfund and @interlagoscap. One of our most important supply chains is broken. @ShinkeiSystems is here to fix it. 🧵
Join @grant__gregory in El Segundo on July 29th!
July Tech Breakfast Clubs 🚀 Hosting hard tech founders in SF with the legendary @DStrachman from 1517 (in partnership with the City of El Segundo) on July 30th El Segundo Tech Breakfast Club on July 29th with @grant__gregory from @cantos And NYC Tech Breakfast Club with the…
IN NEWS: @ShinkeiSystems closes $22M in Series A funding We asked founder @khawajasn how the company works. "We're halfway between a robotics company and a seafood wholesaler and processor." "For every Poseidon machine we build (for fish catching), we give them to fishermen…
We've raised $22M Series A to restore American food sovereignty. Co-led by @foundersfund and @interlagoscap. One of our most important supply chains is broken. @ShinkeiSystems is here to fix it. 🧵
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An Ode to American Craftsmanship No food supply chain displays the cracks in our American values more evidently than in fish. Fraud, smuggling, and waste run rampant across our country - the industry is run by corporate dynasties. American fish are purely graded on size and…
2,000+ hours. That’s how much time we log for control stick endurance testing. Across all our aircraft, we replace traditional mechanical controls with a fully integrated fly-by-wire system, enabling pilots to make precise commands through a single four-axis control stick.…
America cannot wait years to field assets on orbit-- we need to be speaking about getting hundreds of satellites deployed in days and weeks. @ApexSpacecraft is here to meet the call.