person

John Kuolt

Founder and chief executive of the venture studio Vantora, formerly UP.Labs.

Known aliases

Kuolt

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build2 publishers

Vantora hands industrial partners an option to buy the startup built on their own data

The venture builder formerly known as UP.Labs raised more than $100 million to start companies inside industrial partners who seed the data and hold an option to buy the venture. Kuolt calls it a proprietary M&A pipeline.

Publishers:mezha.netruntimewire.com

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption52
Hype gap+30
Incentives74
Confidence56

product1 publisher

Vantora gives corporate partners the option to absorb the startups it builds for them

The studio formerly called UP.Labs has taken $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners and now builds only for named partners such as Porsche and J.B. Hunt. Founder John Kuolt calls it a proprietary M&A pipeline.

Publishers:techcrunch.com

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption26
Hype gap+34
Incentives74
Confidence48