General Partner
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Ian Rountree invests or supports investments through Cantos Ventures's published strategy: Seed near-frontier companies that create abundance, strengthen critical systems and improve democratic competitiveness across advanced technologies, manufacturing and resources.
Founders with deep insight, strong execution ability, defensible differentiation and evidence that the company can become important within Deep Tech, Defense Technology, Energy.
Companies outside the firm's published stage, sector or geographic mandate are less aligned; no broader exclusion is inferred without a public statement.
Show founder-market fit, the problem and differentiated solution, technical or market evidence, venture-scale potential, the next milestone and why Cantos Ventures can materially help.
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Ian Rountree is listed by Cantos Ventures as General Partner. Founded Cantos in 2016 and previously worked on the early teams at Invisible Technologies and SoFi.