Ian Rountree

1st check investor @ Cantos - Backing the near frontier

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
7
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2
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14y
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Board Member
Mar 2024
Salient Motion designs and manufactures modular motion control and actuation components for aerospace and defense industries.
Board Observer
Jan 2024
Fishing automation for sustainability and deliciousness at scale.
mid stageFisheries
Board Member
Jan 2023
Atomos is developing orbital transfer vehicles that reduce the cost of access to space by fostering greater ridesharing in launch vehicles. We allow payloads to reach unique destinations on orbit without requiring their own heavy, expensive (high delta-v) propulsion systems. With our rendezvous and capture technology, we can also redeploy satellites to new missions, expanding their capabilities without reducing orbital lifetime.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Fast-tracking the electric future! EARTH AI is a predictive explorer and driller for critical metals
late stageMining
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Board Observer
Dec 2018
Skyryse is an aviation hardware and software company ushering in a new era in flight safety. Its proprietary technology, SkyOS™ is a universal operating system for flight – which powers their first aircraft, the Skyryse One™ – giving pilots greater control by simplifying the management of an aircraft during standard flight operations, inclement weather, and emergencies.
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2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
Salient Motion designs and manufactures modular motion control and actuation components for aerospace and defense industries.
Board Observer
Jan 2024
Fishing automation for sustainability and deliciousness at scale.
mid stageFisheries
2023
Board Member
Jan 2023
Atomos is developing orbital transfer vehicles that reduce the cost of access to space by fostering greater ridesharing in launch vehicles. We allow payloads to reach unique destinations on orbit without requiring their own heavy, expensive (high delta-v) propulsion systems. With our rendezvous and capture technology, we can also redeploy satellites to new missions, expanding their capabilities without reducing orbital lifetime.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Fast-tracking the electric future! EARTH AI is a predictive explorer and driller for critical metals
late stageMining
2019
Board Observer
Oct 2019
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