Vantora builds enterprise-grade AI companies and capabilities for Fortune 500 industrial businesses, turning their hardest operational problems into assets those enterprises can own.

Founders

• John Kuolt · Founder & CEO
  Before launching Vantora as UP.Labs in 2022, he was a Managing Director and Partner at BCG Digital Ventures, where he opened the London center and served on the global Investment Committee; earlier, he co-founded IQzone.

Business model

Vantora embeds founders, product leaders and AI engineers with an industrial enterprise to build a new venture, proprietary capability or other strategic asset around a high-value problem; the enterprise invests, becomes the first customer and holds equity from formation, with a path to own or integrate what is built.

Customers

Porsche AG, Alaska Airlines, J.B. Hunt, Wabash