We have two exciting announcements today as Cantos turns 10… First, we closed our new fund earlier this year. Canto IV is a $70M fund purpose-built to lead pre-seed and seed rounds. We oversubscribed, wanting to keep it right-sized for being a founder's most aligned first partner. Second, we launched our new look with help from our friends at @asimov_co! Cantos is so-named as an ode to epic poems, where grand stories are written in "cantos" rather than chapters. We view founders as the protagonists of today's epics and seek to back those whose deeds become the stuff of legend. Our new website is a testament to the scale of their ambitions, with visions from a future they will have shaped. Resonat in Æternum 🖋️

RT @grant__gregory: My favorite text yesterday: “I feel like I’m 12 years old seeing the Halo 2 main menu for the first time” https://t.co…

Cantos GP @IanRountree says one of the biggest lessons he's learned from investing in deep tech is that breakthrough technology alone isn't enough. The real value comes from solving meaningful problems that people will pay for. "Technology is not inherently valuable in and of itself. It's valuable insofar as it solves a problem and creates value in the world." "If you're better at packaging things that are off the shelf in a novel way and contextualize that in a business that makes money, that's a lot more interesting than saying, 'I did my PhD in this crazy thing, and it sounds really cool.'"

Congratulations to the @cantos team!

Huge congratulations @IanRountree and the entire @cantos team on 10 incredible years, the close of Fund IV, and your EPIC new look. We're incredibly grateful to have you alongside us on this journey, and excited to keep building the future together 🚀

In the event it wasn’t already obvious, @cantos should be your first call for pre-seed / seed if you’re building in hardware. Thrilled to call them friends and to have co-invested alongside them on numerous occasions.

@IanRountree and the Cantos team remain one of the most intentional early-stage investors I've worked with. They were the first to back Pilgrim after I cut holes in my legs and have remained equally involved since.

Love having @cantos on our cap table!

Our Fourth Canto. Huge shoutout to the @asimov_co for the help with the brand refresh. The website is next level. I mean come on:

A new future begins tomorrow...

Pilgrim Labs is solving this.

ICYMI: Apex Co-Founder & CEO, @IanCinnamon, joined @EdLudlow on Bloomberg @technology last week to discuss how Apex’s latest funding round is eliminating the satellite production bottleneck and delivering constellation-scale production to enable the next generation of critical space systems. Watch the full video below:

Access was built for the harshest environments we could think of. Ocean, off-grid, remote, rough conditions. If you have an extreme use case, send it our way!

The future of energy moves fast. The systems built to support it don't – so, we changed the system. Drop shipped. Ready immediately. Power where you need it, when you need it. Reliable energy for years, not days. Building our factory right now. Oak Ridge – we're coming for you.

When I first met Phil he said that if I told anyone what Heaviside was doing he would kill me. Fortunately I don't have to worry about that anymore. Phil and Heaviside have an absurd pace of execution. You will be hearing even more about them soon.

Real G's move in silence like lasagna Excited for Heaviside to finally come out of stealth

At @cantos nearly all the companies we back use automation and robotics. They just don't lead with it. It's only a robot until it works. Then it's just a machine

Don’t come if you don’t like fun, hardware, or America.

Our CEO and Co-Founder @hargsb joined @NewsNation to discuss why America's hypersonic production gap is the defining national security challenge of our time, and how @Castelion is building to close it. "The only way that we achieve deterrence is to approach this with scale, and the country has to be able to afford these systems in mass."

RT @grant__gregory: Building in the physical world is really hard, and frankly, not many people understand what it takes. We need new taxo…