Overview
Vantora (formerly UP.Labs) is a profitable venture studio building AI-native companies inside Fortune 100 industrial partners. CEO John Kuolt. First outside funding: >$100M from silversmith-capital-partners (Sep 2026).
Key Points
- Proprietary M&A pipeline: corporate partners can acquire ventures outright — unlocking sensitive physical AI use cases
- Partners: Porsche, Alaska Airlines, J.B. Hunt, Wabash, TDG (Ashley Furniture)
- 17 ventures launched; 20 target by end 2026; 79% YoY revenue growth
- COSMOS data ontology product