Vantora raises $100M+ to build physical AI startups industrial companies can own

John Kuolt is turning the former UP.Labs into an acquisition pipeline for industrial customers including Porsche, Alaska Airlines and J.B. Hunt.

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Vantora is wiring customer data, startup formation and a potential acquisition into one process, giving industrial companies a route to own AI built around their most sensitive operations.

A sophisticated robotic arm precisely manipulates a component in a brightly lit, modern industrial research and development lab.

Vantora, the venture builder formerly known as UP.Labs, announced on September 16th that it raised more than $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build AI companies around the operational problems of large industrial customers.…

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